Myers, Dusty. The Post-Gay Novel. Lincoln: Unpublished, 2007.

I'm not reading these days. I mean: I'm not reading much these days. At nights, when I don't want to just fall into bed, I'm picking up and reading Understanding David Foster Wallace, which I'll Finish! in a couple weeks' time. Remember the semester? It was all zoom! read!

At any rate, as a means of keeping this page from getting too stale while also giving the devoted reader a forecast of what's probably to come, I've decided to post my comprehensive-exam booklists. Many of these have been read before, by me, while employing inexplicably the passive voice, but many have not, so prepare yourselves.

This is the focus list. Specialized:

• Arenas, Reinaldo. "The Brightest Star." Old Rosa. 1984. New York: Grove, 1994.
  
• Baldwin, James. Giovanni's Room. 1956. New York: Dell, 1964.
  
• Chabon, Michael. Wonder Boys. 1995. New York: St. Martin’s P, 2000.
  
• Cheever, John. Falconer. New York: Ballantine, 1977.
  
• Cooper, Dennis. Closer. 1989. New York: Grove, 1994.
  
• Cunningham, Michael. The Hours. New York: Picador, 2000.
  
• Delany, Samuel R. Hogg. 1973. Tallahassee: Fiction Collective 2, 2004.
  
• Firbank, Ronald. “Valmouth.” 1919. Five Novels of Ronald Firbank. New York: New Directions, 1969.
  
• Forster, E.M. Maurice. New York: Signet, 1973.
  
• Genet, Jean. Our Lady of the Flowers. 1944. New York: Grove, 1987.
  
• Gide, André. The Counterfeiters. 1926. New York: Vintage, 1973.
  
• Gurganus, Allen. Plays Well with Others. New York: Knopf, 1997.
  
• Holleran, Andrew. Dancer from the Dance. New York: William Morrow, 1978.
  
• Hollinghurst, Alan. The Line of Beauty. New York: Bloomsbury, 2004.
  
• Isherwood, Christopher. A Single Man. 1964. New York: Bard, 1978.
  
• Kramer, Larry. Faggots. New York: Plume, 1978.
  
• Kushner, Tony. Angels in America. 1993. New York: Theatre Communications Group, 2003.
  
• Leavitt, David. The Lost Language of Cranes. 1986. New York: Bloomsbury, 2005.
  
• Mann, Thomas. Death in Venice. 1912. New York: Vintage, 1954.
  
• McNally, Terrence. Corpus Christi. New York: Grove, 1999.
  
• Mishima, Yukio. Forbidden Colors. 1953. New York: Knopf, 1999.
  
• Monette, Paul. Afterlife. New York: Avon, 1991.
  
• Peck, Dale. Martin and John. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1993.
  
• Proust, Marcel. Sodom & Gomorrah. 1922. New York: Penguin, 2005.
  
• Rechy, John. City of Night. 1963. New York: Grove, 1988.
  
• Self, Will. Dorian: An Imitation. New York: Grove, 2002.
  
• Selvadurai, Shyam. Funny Boy. 1995. New York: Harcourt, 1997.
  
• White, Edmund. The Farewell Symphony. New York: Vintage, 1998.
  
• Wilde, Oscar. The Picture of Dorian Gray. 1890. New York: Modern Library, 2004.
  
• Williams, Tennessee. The Glass Menagerie. 1944. New York: New Directions, 1999.
  
• Adams, Stephen. The Homosexual as Hero in Contemporary Fiction. New York: Barnes & Noble, 1980.
  
• Alderson, David and Anderson, Linda. Territories of Desire in Queer Culture. Manchester: Manchester UP, 2000.
  
• Bergman, David. Gaiety Transfigured: Gay Self-Representation in American Literature. Madison: U of Wisconsin P, 1991.
  
• Butler, Judith. Bodies that Matter. New York: Routledge, 1993.
  
• Fiedler, Leslie. Love and Death in the American Novel. 1960. Normal: Dalkey Archive, 1997.
  
• Foucault, Michel. A History of Sexuality: An Introduction. 1977. New York: Knopf, 1990.
  
• Harris, Richard. The Rise and Fall of Gay Culture. New York: Hyperion, 1997.
  
• Lilly, Mark. Gay Men’s Literature in the Twentieth Century. New York: New York UP, 1993.
  
• Sedgwick, Eve Kosofsky. Epistemology of the Closet. Berkeley: U of California P, 1990.
  
• Tóibín, Colm. Love in a Dark Time and Other Explorations of Gay Lives and Literature. New York: Scribner, 2001.