Mountain Climbing in Sheridan Square
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A series of discrete episodes among friends provide snapshots of one gay man's life. There are parties, concerts, dinners with everyday life - and death - interwoven in the rich story-telling. An actress, a painter, a set designer, a writer - all sweating and surviving in Manhattan, all scoring their first successes. Part autobiography and part documentary, artfully written, it details the lives of these creative people. Young and professional, they know there is more to life than money. There is trust and the sort of love that trades in deeds of kindness.
Leventhal's debut novel was welcomed warmly garnering a Lambda Literary Awards Finalist in 1988, this new edition features a 2020 foreword by Christopher Bram.
Stan Leventhal
Stan Leventhal, author, editor, and publisher, lived in New York City in the 1980s through 1995 where he died of AIDS. He is fondly remembered as a generous, genuine and passionate advocate for social causes and other writers. He was nominated for a Lambda Literary Award three times: for the debut novel Mountain Climbing in Sheridan Square, Faultlines and The Black Marble Pool. He published one other novel and three collections of short stories.He served as a judge for the annual Bill Whitehead Memorial Award and was a member of the Publishing Triangle Steering Committee. His short stories and reviews appeared in Outweek, The Advocate, The New York Native, Torso, Mandate, Exquisite Corpse, The James White Review and Gaylaxian Gayzette.In addition, his work appeared in the anthologies: Gay Life, Shadows of Love, The Stiffest of the Corpse, and Sword of the Rainbow. The author was actively involved in the fight for literacy. His message to his readers: "Literature is crucial to our lives; reading is fun."
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