Superfag [Paperback]

Daniel Curzon (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0930650050 | ISBN-13: 978-0930650056 | Publication Date: March 19, 1996 | Edition: 1st

Superfag is a superhero sent by his Divine Father Zeus to rid the earth of homophobia. Good luck!!

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"Curzon spares no one in this all-out satire, spewing droplets from his poison pen like a disgruntled postal employee with an Uzi . . . . --Bay Windows, Boston

"Superfag is good, mean fun. Really mean." --Oblivion magazine, San Francisco

"Superfag is good, mean fun. Really mean." --Oblivion magazine, San Francisco

About the Author

Daniel Curzon, one of the founders of the modern gay literary movement, wrote books on gay topics when it was a daring and dangerous thing to do. He is not afraid to take on all-comers.

Product Details

• Paperback: 218 pages
• Publisher: IGNA Books; 1st edition (March 19, 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0930650050
• ISBN-13: 978-0930650056
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.4 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #6,670,338 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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BIOGRAPHY for DANIEL CURZON

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CAREER BLURBS:
"Daniel Curzon is central and essential to the history of our community's culture." -- Doric Wilson, playwright

"Daniel Curzon is indeed an important, influential, enlightening, and entertaining author." -- Robert Patrick, author of Kennedy's Children,
Temple Slave, and Film Moi __________________________________________________________________
In fiction, Daniel Curzon has published in The Kenyon Review, Descant, Christopher Street, The Oregon Review, Pannus Index, and many other magazines. His stories have been anthologized in Mae West Is Dead (Faber and Faber), Man of My Dreams (Chronicle Books), Aphrodisiac (Coward-McCann), and several other collections.
His newest manuscript is a novel in e-mails about Jane Austen coming back to life in modern times and facing the problems of today: SAVING JANE AUSTEN.
His books include Something You Do in the Dark (G.P. Putnam and Lancer Books), The World Can Break Your Heart (Knights Press), Curzon in Love (Knights Press), Only the Good Parts and Not Necessarily Nice: Stories. Among the Carnivores (Ashley), Human Warmth and Other Stories(Grey Fox Press.

Daniel Curzon has also written plays on a variety of subjects:
His My Unknown Son was produced in New York at the Circle Rep Lab (1987) and later in an Equity production at the Kaufman Theater off-Broadway (1988).
Two of his pieces were included in Homosexual Acts, produced off-Broadway at Theater Off Square, New York (1991). My Unknown Son was given its West Coast premier in Los Angeles in the summer of 1997.

He was awarded the prestigious 1999 National New Play Contest Award for Godot Arrives by the Southwest Theatre Association. Also produced in New Delhi, August, 2009.

Winner one-act contest for "The Hit" at the Attic Theater of Hollywood (1997) and for "Sour Grapes" at the Actors Theater of Santa Cruz (1997)
First Prize, 1998, the One-Act Marathon of the Attic Theatre, Hollywood..

Winner of Second Prize, out of four hundred entries, for one-act "A Fool's Audition," Great Platte River Playwrights Festival, U of Nebraska -- Kearney, summer, 2001. Produced 2001. This one-act also won Honorable Mention in the 2001 Kernodle New Play Competition (U of Arkansas).

He has written a Shakespearean sequel (Henry II; Part III, a Maugham/Coward-like down-for-the weekend comedy (When Bertha Was a Pretty Name), plus several musicals with composer Dan Turner (Cinderella II (about what happens to Cinderella and her prince after they live happily ever after) and No Mince Pies (about Oliver Cromwell and the Puritans with parallels to our own times).

Daniel Curzon (Daniel R. Brown) was born in Litchfield, Illinois and grew up in Detroit. He holds a M.A. in English from Kent State and a Ph.D. in English from Wayne State U. He has taught at several colleges and universities, including Wayne State, the University of Maryland (Far East Div.), California State -- Fresno, and City College of San Francisco.

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5.0 out of 5 stars A Delicious Satire, July 2, 2009

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This review is from: Superfag (Paperback)

Armed with only a black stone from Stonewall, a red stone from either Sodom or Gomorrah and a lavender towel, the half-divine Superfag is sent from heaven to earth by the Supreme Being to wipe out homophobia, and to accomplish this in spite of the Satire Police, those people on earth "'who think it right to laugh at others but never at themselves as well as others who are sour-faced with their own righteousness.'" Should Superfag be successful in this Herculean endeavor, he will become completely divine and spend eternity with his golden-haired lover whom he must leave in order to accomplish what the Supreme Being directs him to do.

Curzon through the exploits of Superfag is unrelenting in his blistering satire. No one gets a pass here from young black thugs who attack a man with AIDS-- yes, it is completely all right to skewer members of an oppressed group for their bigoted behavior-- to Irish cops who are totally comfortable having sex with other males as long as they are doing the sodomizing--sound familiar?-- to a Catholic priest who informs Superfag that the Church--with a Capital letter of course, or as the Holy Father would say, the "True Church"-- permits homosexual relationships as long as there is no sex. Don't forget the "Southern Fried Baptists." Then there is the super-closeted and super-endowed film star named Hellick who has a wife and child for a cover. The list goes on and on. Mr. Curzon takes no prisoners. Speaking of prisoners, when Superfag at one point lands in jail, another prisoner had a tattoo of the Last Supper on his nose. And let us not forget that because of overpopulation, people are forced to eat McDonald's cherry turnovers and the homeless.

In Part II of SUPERFAG we find out if our trusty hero is successful in his mission. Without giving away all of the outrageous plot, I will tell you that Superfag is now older and a cure for AIDS has been found. (At least Mr. Curzon, along with the rest of us, can dream.) Throughout this book the author attacks prejudice and bigotry of all kinds with machette-like strokes. Nothing is subtle. On the other hand, neither was Jonathan Swift in his classic satire GULLIVER'S TRAVELS. Mr. Curzon holds up the looking glass in order that we-- at least some of his gentle readers-- may see our own foibles. If we can see ourselves in some of these motley characters, then Mr. Curzon will not have written this delicious satire in vain. Certainly SUPERFAG is not for everyone; but for some of us, it is manna from heaven. And we know who we are.