Page 4 - Stand by Your Man

Jack Fritscher
iv absolute frenzy, and ‘Daddy’s
his is a classic: Jack
Fritscher’s Stand By Big Shave,’ a father/son story
TYour Man. I’ve about a man who helps his son
expressed my admiration for grow up and appreciate a qual-
Fritscher’s heat before. I’m ity daddy-boner when he sees
even quoted on the back cover one.
of this new book, and I’ll It’s been bandied about that
stand by what I said: “Jack Fritscher is a two-fisted
Fritscher has roamed the fur- writer...the words read that
thest corners of sexuality, way. Try the prose poem, ‘In
and can lead you on head trips Praise of Fuckabilly Butt,’ a
unequaled by any other gay rush of words so horny your
writer I know. You may resist, head will whirl and your heart
as I did, some of the aggres- will pound. And, finally, as an
sion, machismo, and sexual amazing climax to the book,
practices only to be won there’s ‘How Buddy Left Me,’
over by Fritscher’s prose.... which adds to the author’s knee
He writes with sweat and wit, to the groin a pungent jolt to
dirt and desire. Fritscher is the heart. The story includes
a knee to the groin.” not only the expected arousal
This stuff was all written stuff, but an emotional left
for...pop magazines. But when chop that leaves you feel-
Fritscher is churning it out, ing bittersweet and slightly
he can also churn us up. So forlorn long after your har-
I’ll only name a few of the don has gone down. What an
highlights of Stand By Your unusual, and, yes, stunning
Man which collects Fritscher story. That Fritscher. What a
gems from the monthly gloss- fucker!
ies. There’s ‘Goatboy,’ a J/O —John F. Karr, Bay Area
story about teencock in an Reporter, San Francisco

“How Buddy Left Me” is an independent film noir plot with a 1-2
punch. Sensitive, caring love lost against the fall of Saigon, the
wild life South of Market, and the rise of San Francisco punk. Rad
sex. Lyrical love. Some boys are bad for each other! “Fritscher often
writes a masculine version of true love...like Genet.”
—Michael Bronski

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