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Dropping Names
"Tell the truth till it hurts." - Daniel Curzon
"This lucid and chatty book is perceptive, wry, and penetrating to the last drop of bile." - Robert Patrick
"Angry, bitter, with chips on both shoulders, Daniel Curzon is also ferociously honest and very funny." - Ian Young
"He has been everywhere, he has met everyone, and now that he has your attention, he is going to let you know exactly what he has been thinking about them all these years. The result is a blunt, hilarious, page-turning ride that is, to use the cliché, impossible to put down." - Philip Clark
DROPPING NAMES - The Delicious Memoirs of Daniel Curzon, chronicles the author's encounters with dozens and dozens of gay and/or gay-hating figures in American literature and theatre from the early nineteen sixties very nearly to the present. The bulk of the many short pieces was written in 1986, and is followed by copious updates on most of the people named.
"This lucid and chatty book is perceptive, wry, and penetrating to the last drop of bile." - Robert Patrick
"Angry, bitter, with chips on both shoulders, Daniel Curzon is also ferociously honest and very funny." - Ian Young
"He has been everywhere, he has met everyone, and now that he has your attention, he is going to let you know exactly what he has been thinking about them all these years. The result is a blunt, hilarious, page-turning ride that is, to use the cliché, impossible to put down." - Philip Clark
DROPPING NAMES - The Delicious Memoirs of Daniel Curzon, chronicles the author's encounters with dozens and dozens of gay and/or gay-hating figures in American literature and theatre from the early nineteen sixties very nearly to the present. The bulk of the many short pieces was written in 1986, and is followed by copious updates on most of the people named.
347 pages, Kindle Edition
First published December 31, 2004
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About the author
Daniel Curzon
62 books2 followersBorn Daniel Russell Brown, Curzon is an American author and playwright.
Curzon has published stories in The Kenyon Review, Descant, Christopher Street, The Oregon Review, Pannus Index, and many other magazines. His stories have been anthologized in Mae West Is Dead (Faber and Faber), Man of My Dreams (Chronicle Books), Aphrodisiac (Coward-McCann), and several other collections.
His play "Godot Arrives" won the 1999 National New Play Contest Award from the Southwest Theatre Association.
Curzon has published stories in The Kenyon Review, Descant, Christopher Street, The Oregon Review, Pannus Index, and many other magazines. His stories have been anthologized in Mae West Is Dead (Faber and Faber), Man of My Dreams (Chronicle Books), Aphrodisiac (Coward-McCann), and several other collections.
His play "Godot Arrives" won the 1999 National New Play Contest Award from the Southwest Theatre Association.
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