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MAY 5, 2009
Sarah Waters BOOKS / READING
Sarah Waters

Sarah Waters's success would have been unimaginable 20 years ago. She writes about lesbian characters and themes, but she's not just "a gay writer." Instead, her novels—like the Dickensian thriller Fingersmith and the Victorian romance Tipping the Velvet—are widely celebrated for their atmospheric, ornate imagery and compelling plots. And they're about unabashedly gay characters. To see her books becoming best sellers is to celebrate the destruction of the "gay fiction" ghetto that used to menace bookstores back in the day. Tonight she reads from The Little Stranger, a ghost story. (University Book Store, 4326 University Way NE, 634-3400. 7 pm, free.) by It's Paul Constant's Birthday, Everybody!!!

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Paul - I love you, truly I do but I can't let that 'gay ghetto" phrase pass without comment. It's reductive, simplistic and biased. There is an audience looking specifically for gay/lesbian lit. Making sure that that audience is able to identify, locate and have access to gay and lesbian fiction is not ghettoization. By the time straight audiences start reading said authors there is generally a solid gay boy dyke fan base. Check out how many lesbians will be in the audience tonight for Sarah Waters. I would call it co-opting, not ghetto-izing...
Posted by Michael Wells on May 5, 2009 at 12:50 PM · Report

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