#michael lowenthal

[gatheringbones]

michael lowenthal, from the house, from Sister & Brother: Lesbians and Gay Men Write About Their Lives Together, edited by Joan nestle and John Preston, 1994

[gatheringbones]

michael lowenthal, from the house, from Sister & Brother: Lesbians and Gay Men Write About Their Lives Together

[bigtickhk]

When Hell Is Coming to Terms With Other People, and Yourself

Michael Lowenthal’s new story collection, “Sex With Strangers,” is a look at the tensions that animate life and relationships.

Sex With Strangers by Michael Lowenthal 

https://amzn.to/3eDnrgv 

https://bookshop.org/a/17891/9780299332648

[guernicamag]

Thieves

He offered me a fist bump, then seemed to reconsider, and clasped me in a masculine, endearingly chaste hug. “My brother!” he said. “Your wife is a very lucky woman. I hope you get home safe to her, and happy.”

By Michael Lowenthal

https://www.guernicamag.com/thieves/

Illustration: Ansellia Kulikku. Image sources: Library of Congress and Wikimedia Commons.

[therumpus]

Worse yet—worse, at least, for my own self-regard—I also saw myself as a stock character: the sheltered little prince who thinks he understands the world, but then, on his first step out and into the real arena, slips and falls and face-plants in the mud.

Used-Car Salesman by Michael Lowenthal.

[universitybookstore]

They might frown at the rather flip designation, but novelists Michael Lowenthal and Scott Heim are the literary gay power couple of our day: extraordinarily talented writers both, between them they've created some of the most memorable fiction of recent memory. And, let's face it, they're cute as Hell.