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John rechy books7/3/2023 ![]() I never quite understood what your background as a writer was before this book. ![]() Vice: Let’s start with, of course, City of Night. Thus I found myself ringing his doorbell somewhere above the Hollywood sign on a hot, dry November afternoon. I generally prefer a taped phone conversation, but I wanted to meet him. Rechy insisted on being interviewed in person. , but its heart is somewhere altogether further along the road. , is an excellent picaresque based loosely on Fielding’s More recently, his novels have begun to examine some of these same subjects through a hetero lens. From that era,Īre equally fearless takes on lust and obsession. ![]() Rechy went on to author more than a dozen more books, while for some years continuing his other career as a street hustler. On it, and it’s what that closet queen Jim Morrison is referencing when he repeatedly snarls the book’s title in “LA Woman.” ![]() Is one of the most powerful books ever written on the themes of narcissism and loneliness. ![]()
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