Books & Literary Work
A man of his words
As author, editor, or collaborator, Jim has worked on a small shelf’s worth of volumes. His bibliophilia has also led to his publishing criticism in publications including The New York Times Book Review and The Harvard Gay and Lesbian Review. He was the national programming director for Borders book shops in the early 1990s and went on to run public programming for The Free Library of Philadelphia. Jim has also worked in literary public relations, helping launch titles including Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain and Sarah by J.T. Leroy. Below are a sampling of books in which his work is featured…
The Big Book of Misunderstanding
In this bittersweet novel, Gladstone depicts the disintegration of a “freakishly normal” suburban family…his nuanced characters are utterly believable…it will remind many readers of their own troubled clans.TIME OUT, New York
An entire family comes-of-age simultaneously in this tender, funny novel.
Quirky 22-year-old narrator Joshua Royalton recounts the elaborate tales, theories and neuroses he developed to cope with family life, including a fictional history of Chinese restaurant decor, a severe case of crow-phobia, an obsession with Carly Simon, and an extreme aversion to jigsaw puzzles.
The Big Book of Misunderstanding is a comic celebration of people who insist on figuring out how to love each other despite their differences—and despite the indelible similarities they sometimes wish they didn’t share.
>Read reviews of The Big Book of Misunderstanding
>Listen to a podcast about The Big Book of Misunderstanding
Gladstone’s Games To Go
Verbal Volleys, Coin Contests, Dot Duels, and Other Games for Boredom-Free Days
If you and a friend were marooned on a desert island, Gladstone’s Games to Go could prove to be the essential means of retaining your sanity.David Borgenicht, New York Times bestselling author of The Worst Case Scenario Survival Guide
No Boards! No Boredom!
Remember the games you used to play in the car as a kid? You’d enjoy playing them again, but you can’t quite remember all the rules, and besides, the games were awfully easy. Well, Gladstone’s Games to Go has come to the rescue.
With updated classics and challenging original games, Gladstone’s Games to Go delivers antidotes to boredom and entertaining ways to spend down-time, whether you’re in transit, on vacation, or wiling away an afternoon at a cafe. You can play word games (like Grandmother’s House, Six Degrees, and Chain Reaction), compete in coin contests (like Molecular Flip and Sliders), master strategy with dot games (like Dots and Boxes and Sprouts), and more. With little to no additional equipment required (pens and paper or a few coins will do the trick), the games are totally portable—and totally playable. All the games are for two or more players (some can even be played solo), and they appeal to both left- and right-brained gamers. Start playing today!
> Listen to Jim talk about Gladstone’s Games to Go with NPR’s Scott Simon.
> And listen to NPR editors play one of the games.
> Also published in French!
Skin & Ink
These short stories are plot and event driven as opposed to just a surrounding for sex. They are well written by authors who have considered not only the tattoo itself, but the motivations for being tattooed.Amazon.com
Jim conceptualized and edited this collection of erotic stories, all of which involve tattoos. From the introduction:
“My guiding principle in assigning and editing pieces for this collection was that the stories needed to have two essential qualities of the best tattoos: indelibility and ingenuity…Embedded in these stories’ pop cultural appeal, hot sex, and good humor, you’ll also find themes of gay men’s simultaneous sense of alienation and communion, of our mutual fears of permanence and impermanence, and of the many ways in which we get under each others’ skin.”
Queer 13
A collection of not only some of the best current gay literature but also of the most compelling autobiography.Newsday
Jim’s essay, “Awake”, appears in this landmark anthology of writers’ recollections about the cusp of their teenage years in the 1970s and ‘80s, edited by Clifford Chase, author of the brilliant, genre-defying The Hurry-Up Song, Winkie, and The Tooth Fairy.
Among the collection’s other contributors are Mike Albo, Wayne Koestenbaum, Michael Lowenthal, Eileen Myles, Andrew Holleran, Jacqueline Woodson and the late Justin Chin.
But wait! There’s more!
Jim’s writing has also been included in books and journals including…
Six Word Memoirs
Jim is featured in four volumes of this bestselling series, created by his friend, Larry Smith. His contribution to the original book was featured in coverage by The New Yorker.
“Elephants Who Need Elephants”
in I Do, I Don’t: Queers on Marriage
Edited by Greg Wharton and Ian Philips
Interview with Al Eingang
in BUTT Book
Edited by Jop van Bennekom and Gert Jonkers
“Daytrips”
in ACCESS Philadelphia (1st edition)
published by HarperCollins
Introduction
to The Buddies Trilogy (Omnibus edition)
by Ethan Mordden
“Show & Tell”
in Young Bottoms in Love (comics anthology)
Drawn by Tim Fish, colored by Jay Laird
“Shell Game”
in Best of the Best Meat Erotica
Edited by Greg Wharton
“Day of Wine and Toesies”
in Love Under Foot
Edited by M. Christian and Greg Wharton
Journals (selected)…
- American Writing: A Magazine
- Harvard Gay & Lesbian Review
- Pindeldyboz
- Upstairs at Duroc
- Kilometer Zero
- Suspect Thoughts
- Christopher Street
