Felice Picano
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Felice Picano (day/month/1977 - )
Picano was born in New York to __ and __ . He went to __ school(s)
In 1977, he founded SeaHorse Press.
In 1981 with Terry Helbing and Larry Mitchell, he founded Gay Presses of New York (GPNy), becoming Editor-in-Chief. Among authors they published were Harvey Fierstein, Dennis Cooper, Brad Gooch, Joan Larkin, Martin Duberman, Robert Gluck, Jane Chambers, Karla Jay, and Gavin Dillard. Photographers GPNy published included Arthur Tress and Robert Mapplethorpe, and included were artists like George Stravinos, Ron Fowler, and David Martin.
With Andrew Holleran, Robert Ferro, Michael Grumley, Edmund White, Christopher Cox, and George Whitmore, he founded the Violet Quill Club.
Picano is an oft-quoted gay writer who currently lives in California.
Books by Picano
- Smart as the Devil (1975)
- Eyes (1975)
- The Mesmerist (1978)
- The Deformity Lover and Other Poems (1978)
- An Asian Minor: The True Story of Ganymede (1981)
- Slashed to Ribbons in Defense of Love and Other Stories (1983)
- House of Cards (1985)
- To the Seventh Power (1990)
- Men on Men4: Best New Gay Fiction (1992, with Andrew Holleran and George Stambolian)
- The New Joy of Gay Sex (1993, with Charles Silverstein)
- Like People in History (1995)
- The Lure" (1979, 1996)
- Late in the Season (1997)
- Looking Glass Lies (1998)
- Best Gay Erotica 1999 (1999)
- Der Koder (Taschenbuch) (1999)
- The Book of Lies (2000)
- The New YOrk Years: Stories (2000)
- Onyx (2002)
- A House on the Ocean, A House on the Bay (1997, 2003)
- Ambidextrous: The Secret Lives of Children (1995, 2003)
- Men Who Lived Me (2003)
- The Joy of Gay Sex (2004, a revised and expanded 3rd edition)
- Dryland's End (2004)
- Fred in Love (2005)
- Tales: From a Distant Planet (2005)
- Filthy: Outrageous Gay Erotica (2006, with M. Christian)
- Art and Sex in Greenwich Village: A Memoir of Gay Literary Life After Stonewall (2007)
Honors and Awards
- 1975 finalist Ernest Hemingway Award, Best First Fiction, for "Smart As the Devil."
- 1981 New York State Arts Council Grant
- 1982 National Library Association Award for the anthology, "A True Likeness: Lesbian and Gay Writing Today"
- 1985 PEN/Syndicated Fiction Award for the story "Why I Do it."
- 1986 The Jane Chambers Playwriting Award, for "One O'Clock Jump"
- 1986 The Poetry Society Chapbook Award for "Window Elegies"
- 1987 Story Magazine Award, for the story "Love and the She-Lion"
- 1993 finalist for Lambda Book Award, Non-fiction
- 1996 Ferro-Grumley Award for Best Gay Novel, "Like People in History;"
- 1996 finalist for Lambda Book Award, Sci Fi/Fantasy -- "Drylands End"
- 1996 finalist for Lambda Book Award, Fiction, "Like People in History"
- 1997 Gay Times of England Best Novel Award for "Like People in History"
- 1997 finalist for the Whitbread Award for "Like People in History"
- 1999 finalist for Lambda Book Award, Non-fiction, "A House on the Ocean, A House on the Bay
- 2000 finalist for Lambda Book Award, Fiction, "The Book of Lies".
- 2000 finalist for Ferro-Grumley Award, "The Book of Lies".
- 2001 Le Figaro Literraire: Best Foreign Book of the Year for "Like People in History."
- 2002 Spectrum.com Nomination to The Hall of Fame, for Sci Fi novel, "Dryland's End."
- 2002 Book of the Month Club's Insight Out: "Violet Quill Award --Honorary."
- 2003 Saints and Sinners Literary Festival--"Literary Saint"
