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http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/01/books/alan-hollinghursts-strangers-child-is-a-departure.html?nl=todaysheadlinesemc=tha28 October 31, 2011 For a Basso Profundo, a New Literary Tune By CHARLES McGRATH Alan Hollinghurst, whose new book, “The Stranger’s Child,” is just out, does not immediately seem like the kind of writer whose first novel included what amounts to a field guide to the variety of male genitalia. “There are only so many ways one can describe a penis,” he told British Esquire not long ago, “and I think I’ve covered most of them.” Mr. Hollinghurst, 57, is courteous, dignified, a little formal. He has a voice so deep and rumbling that at The Times Literary Supplement, where he was an editor for many years, he was nicknamed Basso Profundo. These days with his short, neatly trimmed gray beard, he could easily be cast as a supernumerary in a Wagner production. The profundo part may also have been a tribute to Mr. Hollinghurst’s formidable erudition. He’s known in literary circles for compiling something called Nemo’s Almanac, a demonically difficult quiz that requires participants to identify obscure quotations from obscure writers. Yet “of all my writer friends,” said Edward St. Aubyn, a fellow novelist, “he’s the one who knows the most about the other arts — music, painting, architecture.” “He was a marvelous editor, very reserved in his judgments,” Jeremy Treglown, a former editor of the supplement who hired Mr. Hollinghurst, said recently. “I learned to listen to his silences.” Mr. Treglown also recalled that Mr. Hollinghurst’s résumé mentioned that he meant to pursue an interest in gay literature. “Given that he was coming to work for Rupert Murdoch, that was a pretty clear statement of intent,” he said. In 1988, while still working at the Literary Supplement (he left in 1990 and worked part time for a few years afterward), Mr. Hollinghurst published “The Swimming Pool Library,” a novel that did for gay sex and desire more or less what John Updike’s “Couples” did for the heterosexual kind: described it in prose that was lush, finely wrought and unusually explicit. In New York last week Mr. Hollinghurst said that his intention had been to take gay life as much for granted as most novels take life among heterosexuals. “I was aware that I had this very great stroke of luck, really, to have this large subject and a chance to do something both explicit and unapologetic,” he explained. “I did have a feeling of novelty about the whole thing. It was interesting to me that it hadn’t happened before. Gays hadn’t really been written about much in literary fiction, and the kind of writing there was about gays’ sexual lives tended to be pornography.” Over the next 15 years Mr. Hollinghurst published three more novels: “The Folding Star” (1994),“The Spell” (1998) and “The Line of Beauty” (2004). Each was well received (“The Line of Beauty” won the Booker Prize); and even as his prose grew more elegant, Jamesian even, each in one way or another continued his project of chronicling gay life in Britain in the second half of the 20th century. “When I started out, I did think of myself as a gay writer, though not only as a gay writer,” he said. “I wanted to write for a readership outside the ghetto and suggest that gays didn’t spend all their time being madly gay.” He went on: ” I think that gay writing, gay fiction, had its point, its urgency, through all those years, and then the AIDS crisis added another huge story. But lately, with all the social and legal changes, and the way the perception of gay people has changed, I feel that gay writing is already dissolving into the main body of writing. I sort of feel we’ve moved on.” The new book is something of a departure. It’s a historical novel of sorts, spanning almost 100 years, and told in five discrete sections, set in 1913, 1926, 1967, 1978 and 2008, in which new characters are introduced and old ones fade into the background, only to re-emerge, older and greatly altered. There is a gay tryst scene, but by Hollinghurst standards a pretty tepid one, and one of the main characters is a woman. At the center of the novel is a bisexual Rupert Brooke-like poet named Cecil Valance, who while visiting the home of an Oxford chum, writes a poem, destined like Brooke’s “The Old Vicarage, Grantchester,” to enter the national mythology. The work is second rate at best, and like Valance himself, who dies in World War I and becomes a cult figure, it’s a little mysterious. Was it written for the Oxford boyfriend or for his teenage sister, whom Valance also makes a pass at, and why does it so capture the public imagination? In the end “The Stranger’s Child” is a study in the vagaries of literary reputation, the untruths of biography and even of the shifting nature of the British class system. The novel has been mostly well reviewed — Thomas Mallon in The New York Times
g_b KASHISH 2012: Call for film submissions
KASHISH 2012: Call for film submissions We are back with a bang! India’s Biggest Queer Film Festival returns for its third edition in 2012. Submissions are now open for all categories, including for the competition section. Filmmakers from India and across the world can submit features, documentaries and short films that highlight/focus on Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer themes and expressions. KASHISH Mumbai International Queer Film Festival is the first and only gay lesbian film festival in India to be held in a mainstream theatre and the only queer festival to receive clearance from the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting KASHISH 2012 will be held in Mumbai from May 23-27, 2011 simultaneously at two venues - a mainstream multiplex theatre and at Alliance Francaise de Bombay. The festival is organized by Solaris Pictures and Bombay Dost in association with The Humsafar Trust. While the landmark first edition was held at PVR Cinemas, Juhu, from April 22-25, 2010 and screened 110 films from 25 countries, the second edition was held at Cinemax, Versova between May 25-29, 2011 and proved to bigger, bolder and queerer. Both the years, the festival was held simultaneously in South Mumbai at Alliance Francaise de Bombay. The second edition in 2011 screened 124 films from 23 countries over five days and had 67.5% capacity turnout with about 6225 audience footfalls. Seven films were awarded with the KASHISH 2011 trophies. The guests featured A-list Bollywood actors and actresses, eminent filmmakers and critics, young filmmakers and actors as well as four international filmmakers - Q.Allan Brocka (USA), Rikki Beadle-Blair (UK), Georgette Okey (UK) and John Badalu (Indonesia). LAST DATE FOR SUBMISSION: JANUARY 15, 2012 Rules for submission: · Filmmakers from India and across the world can submit features, documentaries and short films that highlight/focus on Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer themes and expressions. · There is no SUBMISSION FEE to submit the film. Also the festival does not pay Screening Fee since it believes in investing all its resources in showcasing the films to the best possible extent. · All films, including those in the English language, SHOULD be subtitled in English. · The festival has both competitive and non-competitive sections. · Only films completed after January 1, 2009 can be submitted. Only films completed after January 1, 2011 will be eligible for Competition. · LAST DATE FOR SUBMISSION: JANUARY 15, 2012 (postmarked). · The festival encourages you to apply early since previews begin mid November. How to submit your film? This year we have tried to move into a paperless submission process. Please fill out the KASHISH 2012 ONLINE FILM SUBMISSION FORM at the following link: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/KASHISH2012-FILMSUBMISSION After filling out the form, you will be advised where to send the DVD or Digital file of your film. We look forward to receiving your film and participation with your film in KASHISH 2012. For information about the festival, please visit official website http://mumbaiqueerfest.com/ or official blog http://kashishmiqff.blogspot.com. For inquiries email us at: kashish.mi...@gmail.com
