Maitland’s Vintage Gay Books Newsletter

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Intensive Care

Intensive Care

John Jackson, Parisian Press / Man Hard Books, 1972

Maitland McDonagh
Aug 11, 2022
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John Jackson’s Intensive Care has all the earmarks of a serious novel that wound up in the hands of an adult publishing company — the venerable Parisian Press — because in a famously tough business, gay-themed books by unknown writers were particularly difficult to place with mainstream houses. It’s also one of three Jackson novels published in 1972, a…

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