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Some Critics Profile
Jack Fritscher’s Writing

“Veteran author, Jack Fritscher, is an anarchist of Gay sexual
prose, the man who invented the South of Market prose style...as
well as its magazines...” —John F. Karr, Bay Area Reporter

“Gore Vidal...James Baldwin...Andrew Holleran...Jack Fritscher...
classic!” —David Van Leer, The New Republic

“Jack Fritscher’s prose is...stark, subtle, smooth and suggestive,
richly erotic.” —Richard Labonté, In Touch. “Jack Fritscher’s
short-story anthology Stand by Your Man [is] the most literate
of the lot of erotic fiction in a strong year of gay literature.” —
Richard Labonté, The Advocate. “Fritscher’s Corporal in Charge
of Taking Care of Captain O’Malley is a collection of twenty-one
assertively sexual and imaginatively arousing pieces...elegant
fantasies...rough-and-tumble orgies of the mind...the title tale is
actually a twenty-page torrent of S&M wordplay”
—Richard Labonté, In Touch, Los Angeles

“Fritscher’s cool quiet sadomasochistic material in Leather Blues is
sometimes heavy-duty S&M...surreal mix of dreams and memo-
ries...almost Proustian in his associations...a power and beauty
that is breath-tak ing...Fritscher shows us just how good the choice
of words can be.” —T. R. Witomski, Connection, New York

“...from the pen of Drummer’s original daddy, its founding San
Francisco editor-in-chief, Jack Fritscher. Devotees...will find a
lot to like...literate, funky, honest...even funny by intent...a good
read.” —NBN Newspaper

“Jack Fritscher is a master of gay prose pornography, a rarity in
our...video-oriented cul ture....He plays with the brain, man’s most
accessible and effectively reached sexual organ....The manner in
which he manipu lates language, sensuality, feeling, nuance, style,

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