Overview :Fiction. THE BUTTERFLY first appeared in 1962 and drew on Rumaker's experiences as a patient in Rockland State Hospital and love affairs wit... Read More
Overview :New York Times"111 Held in St. Patrick's AIDS Protest"December 11, 1989While some 4,500 people demonstrated outside St. Patrick's Cathedral ... Read More
Overview :The dates are important to mention in order to put the open sensuality in the novel in perspective., that is, pre-AIDS, when male-male sexua... Read More
Overview :After his graduation from Black Mountain College, Michael Rumaker made his way to the post-Howl, pre-Stonewall gay literary milieu of San Fr... Read More
Overview :Literary Nonfiction. Memoir. Poetry History & Criticism. "An increasingly articulate record of 'those happy few' who were its persons in the... Read More
Overview :Mickey seems to see and hear everything, revealing as he does, Michael Rumaker's amazing abilities as a novelist. Rumaker has a wonderful ey... Read More