James McCourt: Queer Street
Bookworm
KCRW
4.5 • 606 Ratings
🗓️ 11 March 2004
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Although camouflaged as a social history, James McCourt's "Queer Street" is a memoir of sexual initiation and awareness...
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| 0:00.0 | Funds for Bookworm are provided in part by Lannin Foundation. |
| 0:06.9 | You are a human animal. |
| 0:11.1 | You are a very special breed. |
| 0:14.9 | Or you are the only animal. |
| 0:18.5 | Who can think, who can reason, who can read. |
| 0:22.1 | From KCRW, Santa Monica, I'm Michael Silverblatt, and this is Bookworm. My guest today is |
| 0:28.7 | James McCourt. The occasion is his new book, Queer Street, Rise and Fall of an American |
| 0:34.7 | Culture in 1947 to 1985. |
| 0:38.2 | It's published by Norton Books. |
| 0:40.7 | Now, James McCourt is a novelist. |
| 0:43.0 | He has been on the show several times before. |
| 0:45.0 | His first novel, wildly celebrated and many times reprinted, is Mardugorgias. |
| 0:51.6 | He's the author as well of Delancey's Way. |
| 0:56.8 | Kate Wayfaring in Avenged. |
| 1:00.4 | Wayfaring, give me the... |
| 1:03.0 | Wayfaring at Waverly in Silver Lake. |
| 1:06.2 | And although this book... |
| 1:07.1 | And time remaining... |
| 1:08.4 | ...reports to be a book of nonfiction, |
| 1:14.9 | I would like to suggest that it's an entirely new genre entirely, |
| 1:19.1 | which for lack of a new term, I'm going to call phantasmagoria, |
| 1:24.3 | that this is a kind of orchestrated echo chamber of voices, facts, parodies of voices, |
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