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John R Gordon’s Hark: official cover reveal

I’m delighted and excited to share the finalized cover of my forthcoming novel of interracial gay love and the uncanny, Hark — due out on…

Aug 17, 2020

John R Gordon’s Hark: official cover reveal

Aug 17, 2020

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John R Gordon on How To Beat Writer’s Block

I don’t, by and large, suffer from writer’s block — don’t subscribe to it as a particular psychological malady (in fact I think it’s…

Aug 12, 2020

John R Gordon on How To Beat Writer’s Block

Aug 12, 2020

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John R Gordon on Christianity and Homosexuality under Slavery

My 2018 novel, Drapetomania, is an antebellum epic that follows two enslaved Black men, Cyrus and Abegnego, who become lovers. After a…

Aug 5, 2020

John R Gordon on Christianity and Homosexuality under Slavery

Aug 5, 2020

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10 Favourite Book Titles, chosen by John R Gordon

Some wonderful novels have dreadful titles — for instance, Bruce Nugent’s roman-a-clef of the Harlem Renaissance, Infants of the Spring…

Dec 10, 2019

Dec 10, 2019

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Exploring Same Sex Relationships during Slavery in John R. Gordon’s ‘Drapetomania’

There were many challenges to writing an epic love story between two enslaved black men set in America just before the Civil War; in…

Nov 25, 2019

Exploring Same Sex Relationships during Slavery in John R. Gordon’s ‘Drapetomania’

Nov 25, 2019

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John R Gordon interviews Vikram Kolmannskog about his new collection, Lord of the Senses

Who — or what — first inspired you to write? (prose fiction, that is.) Any childhood or school favourites, or books secretly discovered…

Oct 13, 2019

John R Gordon interviews Vikram Kolmannskog about his new collection, Lord of the Senses

Oct 13, 2019

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John R Gordon reviews Darius Bost’s poignant “Evidence of Being: the Black Gay Cultural…

It’s strange when your own life-span is long enough that it becomes part of ‘history’, to be analyzed and assessed in literature…

May 12, 2019

John R Gordon reviews Darius Bost’s poignant “Evidence of Being: the Black Gay Cultural…

May 12, 2019

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The Healing Necessity of Imagining Gay History

History is written by the poacher, not the lion, and therefore many of the lions’ tales are lost. The further back into history you reach…

Feb 16, 2019

The Healing Necessity of Imagining Gay History

Feb 16, 2019

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Imagining Gay Love Under Slavery

As a gay man who is aware that ‘being gay’ as an identity is a fairly recent idea, I’ve always been fascinated by the ways in which…

Nov 8, 2018

Imagining Gay Love Under Slavery

Nov 8, 2018

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John R Gordon: Drapetomania: my love letter

When young and first becoming conscious in the world I was inspired, even transformed, by African-American writers and activists. At that…

Apr 10, 2018

John R Gordon: Drapetomania: my love letter

Apr 10, 2018

john r gordon

john r gordon

Writer & artist; co-founder, Team Angelica Publishing. Author of Drapetomania, an epic tale of same-sex love in slavery times, winner 2019 Ferro-Grumley Award.

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