Dwight Cathcart & Adriana Books

Dwight Cathcart writes on politics, publishing, gay literature, gay people, and his four novels, Ceremonies, Winter Rain, Race Point Light, and Adam in the Morning.

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Earthrise 9

2018-08-28 by Dwight Cathcart Leave a Comment

Adam in the Morning At one in the morning, 28 June 1969, the New York policemen from the 6th Precinct, led by Deputy Inspector Seymour Pine, raided the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar, on Christopher Street in the West Village in New York. This was normal. The cops had raided the same bar earlier that week, and they had raided three other bars in the weeks before. What was unusual that night was that, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Adam in the Morning, Anger, Earthrise, gay community, Gay literature, Stonewall Riots, Straight marriage, Uncategorized Tagged With: Adam in the Morning, gay political novels, Gays fighting back, Stonewall riots, the homosexual context, What we ask of the future

My books, money, value, the somber truth

2017-01-10 by Dwight Cathcart 2 Comments

I read an article on Slate today on writing and money, and it compels me to respond. The point of the article is the fact that so few writers actually make any money at their writing. Just about all writers are supported by doing something else, like teaching, and yet it seems that just about everybody is confused about what confers worth on a book. Do sales confer worth? Do reviews? Publishing … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Adam in the Morning, Alcoholism, Barack Obama, Being gay, Bookstores, bookstores, Ceremonies, Coming to terms with the past, eBooks, Gay literature, Publishing, Race Point Light, The effects of bigotry, Uncategorized, Walking wounded, Winter Rain, Writing Tagged With: Adam in the Morning, Ceremonies, Gays fighting back, How do we connect to the past, Race Point Light, stigmatizing gay people, Stonewall riots, the future, walking wounded, What we ask of the future, Winter Rain

The political novel: 3

2016-11-06 by Dwight Cathcart Leave a Comment

At the time I started writing my first gay political novel, I had only been out for 24 months, and I was steeping in the literature of gay political theory. The weekend that Charles Howard was murdered (July 7, 1984)—he was the man on whom Bernie Mallett of Ceremonies was modeled—I was reading John D’Emilio’s, Sexual Politics, Sexual Communities, The Making of a Homosexual Minority in the United … [Read more...]

Filed Under: A single man, Adam in the Morning, Anger, APA, Ceremonies, Charles Howard, Coming out, Coming to terms with the past, Fighting, Fighting Back, Gay Pride, Publishing, Race Point Light, Stonewall Riots, The future, Winter Rain Tagged With: Adam in the Morning, Ceremonies, Charlie Howard, Gays fighting back, How do we connect to the past, Race Point Light, Stonewall riots

And I alone am escaped to tell thee

2016-07-10 by Dwight Cathcart Leave a Comment

Elie Wiesel, who died this week, said in his Nobel Prize speech, “I have tried to keep memory alive […] I have tried to fight those who would forget. Because if we forget, we are guilty, we are accomplices.” But it’s worse than that. If we forget what has happened to us, we forget what we have done, and we can’t know ourselves. The Federal Writers Project of the Works Project Administration of … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Coming to terms with the past, Marriage, Save the raw material, Stonewall Riots, The effects of bigotry, the South, Walking wounded Tagged With: Adam in the Morning, Ceremonies, Charlie Howard, Gays fighting back, Orlando massacre, Stonewall riots, walking wounded, What we ask of the future

Iridescent history

2016-02-12 by Dwight Cathcart Leave a Comment

Last week I bought and watched Margin Call, directed by J. C. Chandor and starring Kevin Spacey and Too Big to Fail, from HBO, directed by Curtis Hanson and starring William Hurt. I  started watching a Showtime series, Billions, going back to S1:01, starring Paul Giametti and Damian Lewis. The Big Short, directed by Adam McKay and starring Christian Bale and Steve Carrel, opened in the Loewe’s … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Adam in the Morning, Fighting, Fighting Back, Stonewall Riots, Writing Tagged With: Adam in the Morning, coming out in 2015, freedom, Stonewall riots

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