Certain Ecstasies

by Michael Lassell

The 13 highly varied stories that make up Certain Ecstasies move effortlessly from deep emotion to rollicking humor, from autobiography to flights of pure imagination, from literary fiction to explicit eroticism - sometimes in the same sentence. Certain Ecstasies is a baker's dozen of tales both sacred and profane, both enjoyable and profound. They are stories of that pulse with feeling while breaking all the rules, pushing all the buttons, and staking a highly personal claim on gay male fiction.

Paperback

Published January 1, 1999

About the author

Michael Lassell has written extensively in the fields of design, travel, the arts and GLBT studies. His poetry, stories, essays, and reviews have appeared in newspapers, magazines, books, journals and anthologies in the U.S. and abroad, as well as numerous college and university textbooks.

He has been most often anthologized for his poem, written at the beginning of the AIDS epidemic, "How to Watch Your Brother Die."

His work behind the scenes on Broadway with Disney have been described as some of the most honest accounts of production life.

He was the features director of "Metropolitan Home" from 1992 until 2009. And has served as managing editor of Interview and L.A. Style magazines, as well as a theater critic for the Los Angeles Herald Examiner and L.A. Weekly.

Lassell currently resides in Greenwich Village, New York City.

Also writes as Michael Lewis.