Graeme Aitken
Jay Daniel Thompson reviews 'The Indignities' by Graeme Aitken
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Jay Daniel Thompson
The Indignities is the sequel to Vanity Fierce (1998). In this new book, Graeme Aitken provides another provocative perspective on love and other catastrophes in Sydney’s gay male community.
...Peter Porter reviews 'The Penguin Book of Gay Australian Writing' edited by Graeme Aitken
This is a strange assortment of pieces. To someone who doesn’t move in any gay community, the anthology’s chief problem is its fissiparousness. There has to be a distinction between gay writing and writing by authors who are gay. The majority of contributors to Graeme Aitken’s book take gay life to be their subject, but several are included because they are gay, while not necessarily employing gay themes, or doing so indirectly.
... (read more)Dean Kiley reviews 'Vanity Fierce' by Graeme Aitken and 'Gay Resort Murder Shock' by Phillip Scott
Popular fiction is often character-driven. An immediate distinction between these heavily-populated novels would be that if I met the main protagonist of Scott’s book I’d want to have coffee with him whereas if I met Aitken’s I’d want to slap him.
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