Tuesday, May 7, 2024

Alfred Chester? He hardly knew her!

(I'm posting this item on behalf of our colleague Philip Clark.)

If anyone would like to find out more about Alfred Chester, the gay author of The Exquisite Corpse whom I mentioned when someone referenced his nasty review of John Rechy's City of Night during last week's discussion of that novel, I highly recommend Edward Field's recent collection, Voyage to Destruction: The Moroccan Letters of Alfred Chester. There's a lengthy, detailed discussion of Chester (which doubles as a review of the book) on the Grand website that serves as a fantastic primer on who he was. That should give you an idea of whether you'd like to read the collection.


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