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Andy Quan is the author of four books, one of short fiction, Calendar Boy, two of poetry, Slant and Bowling Pin Fire, and one of gay erotica, Six Positions. He was the co-editor of Swallowing Clouds, an Anthology of Chinese Canadian Poetry. His work has appeared in a broad range of anthologies, magazines and literary reviews in Australia, Canada, and elsewhere. His work often deals with the themes of identity, community, and culture.

Born in Vancouver of Cantonese origin, Andy has lived in Toronto, Brussels, and London before settling in Sydney, Australia. A singer and songwriter, he has also self-produced tapes and CDs.

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Carol Shields’s Various Miracles

Various Miracles by Carol Shields
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

I’ve long had Shields’s ‘The Collected Stories‘ on my shelf and truth to tell, I was a bit intimidated by its length. Silly me. On finally starting the tome, I see that it is three short story collections compiled and that I can read one of them at a time! Thus, the first book, ‘Various Miracles’ (preceded by an unpublished short story, ‘Segu

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	The Lost Library: Gay Fiction Rediscovered by Tom Cardamone (Goodreads Author), Christopher Bram, Michael Graves (Goodreads Author) 3.83 avg rating — 59 ratings — published 2010 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Mammoth Book of New Gay Erotica by Lawrence Schimel (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Shaun Levin (Goodreads Author), Michael Lassell 3.51 avg rating — 39 ratings — published 2007 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Upon a Midnight Clear: Queer Christmas Tales by Greg Herren (Editor), M. Christian (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), David McConnell (Contributor) 3.70 avg rating — 27 ratings — published 2004 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Calendar Boy 3.81 avg rating — 26 ratings — published 2001 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Beautiful Boys: Gay Erotic Stories by Richard Labonté (Editor), Michael Bracken (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Eric Del Carlo (Contributor) 3.59 avg rating — 27 ratings — published 2010 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Six Positions: Sex Writing 4.57 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 2011 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Penguin Australian Summer Stories 4 by Thea Astley, Tim Winton, Brenda Walker 3.67 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 2002	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Swallowing Clouds: An Anthology of Chinese-Canadian Poetry by Andy Quan (Goodreads Author) (Co-Editor), Jim Wong-Chu (Editor) 3.91 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 1999	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Slant 4.25 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2001	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Bowling Pin Fire it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2007	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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I'm reading through Alice Munro's books: all of them. Most of them I'd read before, but a number are completely new or I only read a story or two of them. The Moons of Jupiter surprised me in that it's an older collection (1982) and yet I found it as ...more
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“How complex, untrustworthy, and important our stories are. We will never tell you the true story of our lives.”
― Andy Quan, The Lost Library: Gay Fiction Rediscovered

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“I think the word ‘love’ should be used sparingly and truthfully.”
― Andy Quan, The Lost Library: Gay Fiction Rediscovered

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