Mountain Climbing in Sheridan Square

Stan Leventhal

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A series of discrete episodes among friends provide snapshots of one gay man's life. There are parties, concerts, dinners with everyday life - and death - interwoven in the rich story-telling. An actress, a painter, a set designer, a writer - all sweating and surviving in Manhattan, all scoring their first successes. Part autobiography and part documentary, artfully written, it details the lives of these creative people. Young and professional, they know there is more to life than money. There is trust and the sort of love that trades in deeds of kindness.

Leventhal's debut novel was welcomed warmly garnering a Lambda Literary Awards Finalist in 1988, this new edition features a 2020 foreword by Christopher Bram.

Book Details

Publisher: Requeered Tales
Publish Date: Mar 10th, 2020
Pages: 198
Language: English
Edition: undefined - undefined
Dimensions: 8.00in - 5.00in - 0.45in - 0.48lb
EAN: 9781951092214
Categories: • Literary• LGBTQ+ - Gay

About the Author

Leventhal, Stan: - Stan Leventhal, author, editor, and publisher, lived in New York City in the 1980s through 1995 where he died of AIDS. He is fondly remembered as a generous, genuine and passionate advocate for social causes and other writers. He was nominated for a Lambda Literary Award three times: for he debut novel Mountain Climbing in Sheridan Square, Faultlines and The Black Marble Pool. He published two other novels and two collections of short stories. In addition, his work has appeared in four anthologies including Sword of the Rainbow, edited by Eric Garber and Jewelle Gomez. Stan was actively involved in the fight for literacy. His message to his readers: "Literature is crucial to our lives; reading is fun."

Bram, Christopher: - A novelist and critic, Christopher Bram is the author of nine novels, including Gods and Monsters, which was made into the movie starring Ian McKellen and Lynn Redgrave. He has written nonfiction for a broad range of publications, including The New York Times Book Review, Out, Huffington Post, and Architectural Digest. He was a 2001 Guggenheim fellow and winner of the Bill Whitehead Award for Lifetime Achievement.

Praise for this book

"Stan Leventhal was wonderful company: warm, honest, curious, engaging, and human. Mountain Climbing in Sheridan Square is the next best thing to hanging out with him." - Christopher Bram

"This, in my opinion, a finely crafted romp - I kept hollering to my lover from the reading room, "Hey,
honey, let me read you this piece - it's a scream." We chuckled our way through the narrator's trials and
triumphs. We both found him to be a likeable and endearing chap and are anxious to learn more of his
adventures." - Kimberly Moore Webster, National Gay and Lesbian Task Force