(Debby)
One thing that tends to jump out at me when I go to the library is that I don’t know a blessed thing about those E.W. authors – Eudora Welty, Evelyn Waugh, and Edith Wharton. The one E Welty book they have is a massive compendium of stories or novels or something – far too big to reasonably take out; E. Wharton books seemed positively too torpid and miserable (Age of Innocence and all that. But maybe I’m wrong? Certainly never read any of them); so that left E. Waugh, and Brideshead Revisited – a book title that seemed familiar, but I certainly didn’t know anything about it.

Brideshead Revisited – turns out to be a very engaging book. Took me by surprise, though. Young love between two men, and then later slightly older and more physical love between a man and a woman. Set between World Wars I & II, which is always an interesting time, especially when the authors are actually writing during WWII.

Um, is it just me, or is there way more of a Respected Tradition of Writing About Homosexual Male Love So Long As One Is Not Too Graphic (Preferably It Is Just A Phase) in countries other than America? Oh, and Africa. Definitely not much of a tradition for it in Africa. Okay, maybe just England.

Well, I don’t know. I can’t think of any American classics involving super intense relationships between men, and right now I feel like there are scads of British classics on that theme. Oh, and all those Greek epics, too.