Still Dancing: New and Selected Stories - Softcover

I've been a New Yorker now for thirty years. I arrived in 1978 after graduating from Emory University in Atlanta and lived in a small and expensive apartment in the West Village that I could barely afford. In my early years in Manhattan, I worked as a telephone operator, a legal proofreader, and an entertainment publicist, sometimes all in the same day. Many of my early AIDS stories were inspired from my experiences with my friend Kevin Patterson when he became ill with AIDS. Kevin was a playwright (A Most Secret War) and a theater publicist (he worked at the Public for many years). And my early AIDS stories were published thanks to my friendship with David Feinberg (author of Eighty-Sixed), who showed my stories to his editor, Ed Iwanicki, at Viking. David and I were in a Gay Writers Workshop together back in the mid-1980s that met regularly in the members' homes and our friendship continued up until his death in 1994.

The gorgeous photograph that is being used on the cover of Still Dancing was also taken by a New Yorker--Matt Chapin, who is a member of the NYC Photo Club, which meets regularly at the LGBT Center in the Village, and which was where I spotted Matt's work on exhibit this summer as I was assembling my AIDS stories into a new book.

Along with ten stories from my first collection, Dancing on the Moon, are ten newly selected stories in Still Dancing, including the recently written stories "The Chelsea Rose" and "Manhattan Transfer," about the history of the inhabitants of a Chelsea apartment building, depicting the migratory path of its residents and the deep devastation the epidemic left on a generation of gay men.

Jameson Currier is the author of a novel, Where the Rainbow Ends, and two previous collections of short stories. His short fiction has appeared in many literary magazines and Web sites, including OutsiderInk, Velvet Mafia, Blithe House Quarterly, Absinthe Literary Review, Confrontation, Christopher Street, Harrington Gay Men s Fiction Quarterly, and the anthologies Men on Men, Best American Gay Fiction, Certain Voices, Boyfriends from Hell, Mammoth Book of New Gay Erotica, Best Gay Erotica, Best American Erotica, Best Gay Romance, Best Gay Stories, Circa 2000, Rebel Yell, I Do/I Don't, Where the Boys Are, Nine Hundred & Sixty-Nine, Wilde Stories, Unspeakable Horror, and Making Literature Matter. His reviews, essays, interviews, and articles on AIDS and gay culture have been published in many national and local publications. Mr. Currier also authored the documentary Living Proof: HIV and the Pursuit of Happiness and a collection of his AIDS-themed short stories have been translated into French by Anne-Laure Hubert. A member of the board of directors of the Arch and Bruce Brown Foundation, he blogs regularly on the GLBTQ publishing community on QueerType. He currently resides in Manhattan.