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Michael Rumaker
New York Times
111 Held in St. Patrick’s AIDS Protest
December 11, 1989
While some 4,500 people demonstrated outside St. Patrick’s Cathedral yesterday, several dozen disrupted the Mass at 10:15…
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Michael Rumaker’s finely detailed, evocative memoir puts personal flesh on Black Mountain College’s historical bones. He brings to life the daily texture of what it meant to live in that…
Rumaker gives us something much more than a well-crafted elaboration on a special moment in time. He looks beyond the twelve hours his character spends at the baths.
Pagan Days is one of the best novels I’ve read in a lifetime of reading. Michael Rumaker is a working-class Marcel Proust, a great novelist, inspired by memory to write…
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Fiction. THE BUTTERFLY first appeared in 1962 and drew on Rumaker’s experiences as a patient in Rockland State Hospital and love affairs with Yoko Ono and Joyce Johnson. As Rumaker’s…
A revealing portrait of a major poet of the SF Renaissance and a gripping account of late ‘50s gay life.
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