Felice Picano

Felice Picano

Felice Picano (born February 22, 1944 in New York City ) is an American writer and publisher .

Life

Picano was born in New York in 1944. He founded SeaHorse Press in 1977 and, in 1981, the Gay Presses of New York together with Terry Helbing and Larry Mitchell . Together with Andrew Holleran , Robert Ferro , Edmund White , George Whitmore , Michael Grumley and Christopher Cox , he founded the literary circle The Violet Quill in New York in 1980 .

He started out writing short stories for various magazines such as Mandate and The Advocate . For his novel Like People in History (German: This one friendship ) he won the Ferro-Grumley Award and for a short story the PEN Syndicated Fiction Award . Picano was a finalist for the Ernest Hemingway Award and was nominated four times for the Lambda Literary Awards . Picano lives in West Hollywood , California .

Works

As an author

Essays

• AIDS . The new crucible of faith . In: Brian Bouldry (ed.): Wrestling with an angel. Faith and religion in the lives of gay men . Riverhead Books, New York 1995, ISBN 1-57322-003-5 .

Autobiographies

• The collected memoirs of Felice Picano . Harrington Park Press, New York 2003ff.
• Vol. 1: Ambidextrous. The Secret Lives of Children. ISBN 1-56023-438-5 (reprint of New York 1985 edition).
  • Dual talent . Knaur, Munich 1988, ISBN 3-426-01452-1
• Vol. 2: Men Who Loved Me. A Memoir in the Form of a Novel. ISBN 1-56023-442-3 (reprint of the New York 1989 edition)
• Vol. 3: A House on the Ocean, A House on the Bay. ISBN 978-1-56023-440-1 .
• Vol. 4: Fred in Love. ISBN 0-299-20910-5
• Vol. 5: Art & Sex in Greenwich Village. Literary Life After Stonewall. ISBN 978-0-7867-1813-9

stories

• Expertise . In: Lawrence Schimel (Ed.): The Mammoth book of gay erotica . Carroll & Graf, New York 1998 ISBN 0-7867-0476-4
• Slashed to ribbons in defense of love . In: Anonymous (Ed.): Aphrodisiac. Fiction from Christopher Street . Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, New York 1980 ISBN 0-698-11035-8
  • German in: Aphrodisiac 1st anthology. Ed. Edmund White . Droemer Knaur, Munich 1986 ISBN 3426013525
• Spices of the world . In: Graham Masterton (ed.): Scare fare . Doherty Publ., New York 1990 ISBN 0-8125-1097-6
• Xmas in an apple . In: Greg Herren (Ed.): Upon a midnight clear. Queer Christmas Tales . Harrington Park Press, New York 2004 ISBN 1-56023-467-9
• Absolute ebony . In: Frank Coffey (Ed.): Modern Masters of Horro . Berkley Books, New York 1981 ISBN 0-425-10952-6
• New kid in town . In: Patricia N. Warren (Ed.): Nine hundred & sixty nine. West Hollywood stories . Universe Publ., Bloomington 2008 ISBN 978-0-595-53327-5

Short story collections

• Twelve o'clock tales . Bold Strokes Books, Valley Falls, 2012, ISBN 978-1-60282-699-1 .
• Slashed to Ribbons in Defense of Love and Other Stories . The Gay Press, New York 1983, ISBN 0-9604724-2-8 .
• Tales. From a distant planet . French Connection Press, Paris 2006, ISBN 2-914853-05-X .

Novels

• Smart as the Devil. A novel . Arbor House, New York 1975, ISBN 0-87795-097-0 .
  • Smart as the devil . Fischer, Frankfurt / M. 1978, ISBN 3-596-22600-7 (EA Zurich 1976).
• Eyes . Dell Publ., New York 1975, ISBN 0-440-12427-1 .
  • Don't play with dolls. Novel . Fischer, Frankfurt / M. 1979, ISBN 3-596-22605-8 (EA Zurich 1977).
• The mesmerist . Delacorte Press, New York 1977, ISBN 0-440-05542-3 .
  • Hypnosis. Roman , Droemer Knaur, Munich 1988, ISBN 3-426-01804-7 .
• The Lure . Hard Candy Press, New York 1996, ISBN 1-56333-398-8 (EA New York 1979).
  • Caught in Babel . Schweizer Verlagshaus, Zurich 1981, ISBN 3-7263-6308-4 .
  • The bait . Albino Verlag, Berlin 1993, ISBN 3-86187-501-2 .
• Late in the season . Delacorte Press, New York 1981, ISBN 0-440-04729-3 .
  • Autumn storms . Lambda Edition, Hamburg 1986, ISBN 3-925495-03-7 .
• An Asian minor. The True Story of Ganymede . Seahorse Press, New York 1981, ISBN 0-933322-06-2 .
• House of Cards . Delacorte Press, New York 1984, ISBN 0-385-29273-2 .
• To the Seventh Power . Morrow Books, New York 1989, ISBN 0-688-06332-2 .
  • The seventh force . Droemer Knaur, Munich 1991, ISBN 3-426-03112-4 .
• Like People in History . Viking, New York 1995.
  • This one friendship . Gmünder Verlag, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-86187-327-3 (reprint of the Munich 1997 edition).
• Dryland's End . Harrington Park Press, New York 2004, ISBN 1-56023-520-9 (reprinted from New York 1995 edition).
• Looking Glass Lives. A novel . Alyson Books, Los Angeles 1997, ISBN 1-55583-481-7 .
• The Book of Lies . Alyson Books, Los Angeles 1998, ISBN 1-55583-541-4 .
• Onyx . Alyson Books, Los Angeles 2001, ISBN 1-55583-640-2 .

Non-fiction

• The New Joy of Gay Sex . GMP Publ., London 1992, ISBN 0-85449-214-3 (together with Charles Silverstein ).
  • The new joys of gays. A guide to living and loving . Gmünder Verlag, Berlin 1992, ISBN 3-86187-014-2 .

Collected Works

• The New York Years An. "Asian Minor". "Slashed to Ribbons in Defense of Love" . Alyson Books, Los Angeles 2000, ISBN 1-55583-522-8 .

As editor

• Best Gay Erotica 1999 . Cleis Press, San Francisco 1999, ISBN 1-57344-048-5 .
• Ambient. New queer latino writing . University Press, Madison, Wisc. 2011, ISBN 978-0-299-28224-0 (together with Lázaro Lima ).

Web links

• Literature by and about Felice Picano in the catalog of the German National Library
• Felice Picano in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Craig Kaczorowski: Picano, Felice (b. 1944) ( Memento of the original from November 20, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on www.glbtq.com (engl.)  
2. ↑ ^{a b c d} nomination for the Lambda Literary Award
3. ^ Ferro Grumley Award
4. ^ Hall of Fame of the Gaylactic Spectrum Award 2002.