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The Midhurst Lashes
A compelling family drama of love and control adapted from Algernon Charles Swinburne's novels.
A Journal of the Plague Year, and Other Plays and Adaptations
One of our best novelists here collects plays and adaptations he wrote before turning to fiction. His 1994 take on Daniel Defoe's A Journal of the Plague Year is a powerful dramatic response to the AIDS epidemic. The one-man play Chesterfield to His Son, adapting that forbidding nobleman's famous Letters, is a hilariously antic--and painfully accurate--dissection of a father's love and hopes for his son. Dr. Knox and Mr. Banner examines same-sex desire in 19th-century London and the stories people tell themselves about what makes them who they are. More characters tell themselves more stories in five sparkling one-act plays set in locales ranging from the sidewalk of West 23rd Street to Seward, Alaska: The Old Agitator continues his lifelong mission, but with modified idealism; a new arrival in Alaska does what she must in order to stay; a grandmother exiled to a suburban lawn examines her life and is inspired to take action; a man explores the sexual temptation offered by a random encounter, and a casual philanderer finally meets a reckoning. One of the country's most interesting and accomplished novelists widens his vision with this collection.
All That Money
Celebrity kidnappings always breed rumors that the victim is complicit. In the 1934 Lucie Spode White kidnapping case, the rumors are true. Falls City's sexy Depression belle is a high-living heiress whose husband expects her to get by on her pin money. Only 25, she won't come into her inheritance until she turns 30! Generous-if ruthless-with her favors, when she can't raise the cash for a room at a hot-pillow motel, Lucie enlists her handsome young lover Harry Thrall in a scheme to anticipate part of her inheritance. Just a prank. Can't be a crime if she's in on it, right? Though pants-on-fire Harry worries that one of them (and he knows who) will end up on Death Row while the other lives it up on Easy Street, he enters into the spirit of the thing. After all, Harry needs money if he's going to get to Hollywood. So off they go, and in come reality and the F.B.I. Lucie finds herself trapped in a closet with a gash in her head, while G-Men dog Harry across the country. Inspired by the sensational 1934 kidnapping of heiress Alice Speed Stoll, All That Money is a fast-moving, rollicking ride.
My Hollywood Memoir and Other Fiction
Four brilliantly entertaining vignettes about America's past half-century. In My Hollywood Memoir, the grandson of a silent-screen star goes to Los Angeles to become a movie star himself. It's 1972, and Kid Crusoe Wyatt parlays his contacts into a gay love affair and a starring role in his grandfather's biopic-but will his fate be any different than Granddad's? Sidestep, set in 1980s Ohio, explores how American elites manage to stay on top come what may, even as crack cocaine threatens Jonah Greene's outsized success. Big Luck's Ricardo is a 2000s Mexican immigrant whose sex-worker past stymies his citizenship application, until-after helping to game the California lottery-he realizes what he must do. The mood darkens with the mid-2010s in Save the Max Man! as a family deals with a child's health crisis by waging war on its medical insurance provider. "Meyers is a masterly communicator."-Kirkus Reviews
A Family Romance
A Family Romance sweeps through more than 40 years serving up tasty--and profoundly true--takes on American life. In the first part of this family saga, we meet Nat and Viv Handler at their 1959 arrival in Washington, D.C., Viv a devoted mother and wife, Nat a journalist. When he stumbles upon the untold story of President Kennedy's womanizing, Nat sets out to report on it. But the more he tries to get the facts from the President's sexiest mistress, the more he puts his job--and his marriage--at risk. Then we make the acquaintance of Nat and Viv as students in Colorado during World War II. Viv's involved with J.T.--her handsome bad boyfriend--and Nat is stalking them. It's a scene of Swing ...
That's My Story
That's My Story tells two exciting tales from the author's family history. The first-The Last Posse-is set in 1922 Texas. Sheriff Jim Groves leads a posse by automobile and horseback after the famous outlaw Frank Holloway, whose pistols have seven notches, one for every man he's killed. At the same time, Jim's father's grave is opened and his body snatched in an effort to prove the family's rights to Manhattan's notorious Edwards Estate. Narrating is Jim's 12-year-old nephew Bing, who will be tasked (in disguise) with saving the day. The second-That's My Story-takes place in Beverly Hills, California in 1935. Jim is living in a stately Holmby Hills "cottage," providing security to the Raven ...
The Wedding on Big Bone Hill
The Wedding on Big Bone Hill explores some underpinnings-and seamy undersides-of modern American life in its two short novels. In the title piece, Jack hits the road in his RV on a quest for Paradise, USA, which he finds in a bucolic Kansas park where he takes a workamper job. But this Eden turns out to be almost as tricky as the original, for the head ranger, soon to marry Donna atop Big Bone Hill, allows his deputy-her father, Percy-free rein over the park. Percy's convinced that everybody tries to get away with something, but that anyone allowed to get away with anything will try to get away with more, and he (if he alone) can see where that leads-he being the poster child for getting awa...
Good People
"Comedy is the rock and roll of the Eighties!" proclaims Rolling Stone, and right away Rex Black-who owns New York's hottest comedy club, the Gag Reflex-realizes the zeitgeist is going to make him rich Records! TV! Movies! A national chain! Selling stock! And indeed it rockets Rex on a wonderful trip, along with his wife Perri, A&R Joey, club booker Ashley, club manager Conor and, as his own assistant, Conor's partner Frank. Wall Street titan Siggy Brewster will handle the IPO. Circling them all, desperate for her break, her fin hardly breaking the water, is comedian Rosetta Stone. Fast, funny and heartfelt, Good People draws on the author's 1980s experience working for the original Catch a Rising Star at its peak to sum up an era of triumphs and trainwrecks.
Queer's Progress
Two young men fall in love in 90s New York: Can they make a go of it? They come from different worlds: Fatherless Eduardo, a student, was born in Cuba, while suburban-raised Andrew is aiming for an academic career. But with help from Ned, an older master of gay Manhattan, Eduardo and Andrew will give it their best shot! But though Ned gives hands-on instruction as required, he also sees a way to use first Andrew, then Eduardo for the benefit of his own stalled literary career. He schemes and manipulates in order to get his novel published-because all's fair in love and war and art. This compelling (and partly autobiographical) story of young love follows Andrew's stumbling progress in pursuit of Eduardo as Eduardo flees a pregnant hookup and his mom's Harlem apartment to flop on his oldest friend's floor, his best friend's couch, in Andrew's bed, at the West Side Y, on a patch of Central Park ivy-and a jail cell or two. Queer's Progress races towards inevitability in a tale by turns urbane, emotional and dryly witty.
