Madder Music, Stronger Wine

Dean Goodman (as Douglas Dean), Pleasure Readers/Phenix Publishers, 1969

Short-story collections appear to have been a rarity in gay adult publishing. I asked William Maltese, the prolific author of a wide range of largely gay-oriented fiction starting in the 1970s and continuing to the present, for his thoughts and he concurred. He added, “Frankly, I found it just as easy to write a whole novel as a bunch of short stories” …