Meanwhile, in Another Part of the Forest

Gay Stories From Alice Munro to Yukio Mishima
This comprehensive collection of forty-five stories on male homosexuality by the world’s greatest writers, gay and not gay, displays both the unique nature of gay fiction and its universality; it is ‘an anthology of intimacy, and the insights it gives are into the universal human condition’ (Robert Olen Butler).

First Edition

Toronto, Alfred A. Knopf, 1994
Softcover, xxi; 682 p.

Selection, story introductions, and author notes by Alberto Manguel and Craig Stephenson
Marco Denevi translated by Alberto Manguel

9780394280127

  • Introduction  
  • E. M. FORSTER Arthur Snatchfold
  • JAMES BALDWIN The Outing
  • AMI BEATTIE The Cinderella Waltz
  • JOHN LONIE Contact
  • MARCO DENEVI Michel
  • SHERWOOD ANDERSON Hands
  • JOHN CHEEVER Clancy in the Tower of Babel
  • DENTON WELCH: When I Was Thirteen
  • EDMUND WHITE: Reprise
  • W. P. KINSELLA: Punchlines
  • MARIE-CLAIRE BLAIS: An Intimate Death
  • BERNARD MACLAVERTY: The Drapery Man
  • FRANCOISE SAGAN: The Unknown Visitor
  • ROSE TREMAIN: Dinner for One
  • ALICE MUNRO: The Turkey Season
  • PETER WELLS: Encounter
  • TENNESSEE WILLIAMS: The Mysteries of the Joy Rio
  • JOHN O’HARA: The Sharks
  • DESMOND HOGAN: Ties
  • RAY BRADBURY: The Cold Wind and the Warm
  • DAVID MALOUF: Southern Skies
  • PAI HSIEN-YUNG: A Sky Full of Bright, Twinkling Stars
  • ERNEST HEMINGWAY: A Simple Enquiry
  • FRANCIS KING: Hard Feelings
  • YUKIO MISHIMA: Onnagata
  • GRAHAM GREENE: May We Borrow Your Husband?
  • JAMES PURDY: Summer Tidings
  • STAN PERSKY: On Certainty
  • WILLIAM TREVOR: Torridge
  • CHRISTOPHER ISHERWOOD: On Ruegen Island
  • SHYAM SELVADURAI: Pigs Can’t Fly
  • EVGENY POPOV: The Reservoir
  • THEODORE STURGEON: The World Well Lost
  • TIMOTHY FINDLEY: Bragg and Minna
  • HELEN GARNER: La Chance Existe

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