The Lost Library: Gay Fiction Rediscovered

The Lost Library: Gay Fiction Rediscovered, edited by Tom Cardamone, includes appreciations by 28 contemporary writers of significant gay novels and short story collections now out of print. The Lost Library includes an essay on reprints of gay literature by Philip Clark. Published in March 2010, it features a cover illustration by Mel Odom.

Table of contents

 * 1) Introduction — Tom Cardamone
 * 2) Rabih Alameddine, The Perv: Stories — Michael Graves
 * 3) Allen Barnett, The Body and Its Dangers — Christopher Bram
 * 4) Neil Bartlett, Ready to Catch Him, Should He Fall — Philip Clark
 * 5) George Baxt, A Queer Kind of Death — Larry Duplechan
 * 6) Bruce Benderson, User — Rob Stephenson
 * 7) Christopher Coe, Such Times — Jameson Currier
 * 8) Daniel Curzon, Something You Do in the Dark — Jesse Monteagudo
 * 9) Melvin Dixon, Vanishing Rooms — Ian Rafael Titus
 * 10) John Donovan, I'll Get There. It Better Be Worth the Trip — Martin Wilson
 * 11) Robert Ferro, The Blue Star — Stephen Greco
 * 12) John Gilgun, Music I Never Dreamed Of — Wayne Courtois
 * 13) Agustín Gómez-Arcos, The Carnivorous Lamb — Richard Reitsma
 * 14) Michael Grumley, Life Drawing — Sam Miller
 * 15) Lynn Hall, Sticks and Stones — Sean Meriwether
 * 16) Richard Hall, Couplings — Jonathan Harper
 * 17) J.S. Marcus, The Captain’s Fire — Aaron Hamburger
 * 18) James McCourt, Time Remaining — Tim Young
 * 19) Mark Merlis, American Studies — Rick Whitaker
 * 20) Charles Nelson, The Boy Who Picked the Bullets Up — Jim Marks
 * 21) Kyle Onstott and Lance Horner, Child of the Sun — Michael Bronski
 * 22) Roger Peyrefitte, The Exile of Capri — Gregory Woods
 * 23) Paul Reed, Longing — Bill Brent
 * 24) Paul Rogers, Saul's Book — Paul Russell
 * 25) Patrick Roscoe, Birthmarks — Andy Quan
 * 26) Douglas Sadownick, Sacred Lips of the Bronx — Tom Cardamone
 * 27) Glenway Wescott, The Apple of the Eye — Jerry Rosco
 * 28) George Whitmore, Nebraska — Victor Bumbalo
 * 29) Donald Windham, Two People, Philip Gambone
 * 30) Come Again: A History of the Reprinting of Gay Novels, Philip Clark

Awards
The Lost Library won the San Francisco Book Festival's gay category for best book of the spring season, and was named one of the 10 best nonfiction books of 2010 in Richard Labonté's Book Marks column.