I think, the way this blog is developing, at least for now, that I will keep a few subjects running. Two more holidays to get through before we can get back to work. Thanksgiving was fifteen or twenty of my partner’s family in a beautiful home on the coast of Connecticut. Last weekend was Holly Folly in Provincetown and the Boston Gay Men’s Chorus singing, and we had dinner with friends at a … [Read more...]
Feeling Trapped
I saw a play the other night, a new play about a family in crisis over a question of forgiveness. Can they forgive the man who murdered their daughter? This led me to consider whether a dramatist could write that kind of drama about a gay family. Say, two gay men and their children, home for the holidays, forced to deal with whether to forgive a man who had murdered a daughter of the family. What … [Read more...]
The Pictures
Since 1982 I have taken many hundreds of pictures of the sites in which these three novels have been placed--Cardiff, Maine, a fictional version of Bangor, Maine, Commercial Street and Race Point in Provincetown, and Christopher Street in the West Village in New York. But when it came time to find a photograph we could use for the cover of each of these novels, I realized that all of my pictures … [Read more...]
The myths we tell ourselves
I was halfway through Ceremonies, when I began to get the feeling that there weren’t many other gay books like this. Books that placed their characters at the heart of the gay predicament—we live in a homophobic culture—and then listened while they told us how that was. This is such an important story, how could it be that not many other writers have written about this? The same thing is true … [Read more...]
The un-finality of finishing something
We are working hard on the last jobs getting our website—http://www.dwightcathcart.net—up and running. We ask ourselves questions. Are there enough pictures? Do you have more pictures on your HD? What did Apple do to iPhoto 11 so that it won’t do what iPhoto 10 did easily? I seem to go by the Apple store once a week, asking for help. As it turned out, I don’t think the staff was very familiar with … [Read more...]
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