john r gordonJohn R Gordon’s Hark: official cover revealI’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, 2020Aug 17, 2020
john r gordonJohn R Gordon on How To Beat Writer’s BlockI 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, 2020Aug 12, 2020
john r gordonJohn R Gordon on Christianity and Homosexuality under SlaveryMy 2018 novel, Drapetomania, is an antebellum epic that follows two enslaved Black men, Cyrus and Abegnego, who become lovers. After a…Aug 5, 2020Aug 5, 2020
john r gordon10 Favourite Book Titles, chosen by John R GordonSome wonderful novels have dreadful titles — for instance, Bruce Nugent’s roman-a-clef of the Harlem Renaissance, Infants of the Spring…Dec 10, 2019Dec 10, 2019
john r gordonExploring 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, 2019Nov 25, 2019
john r gordonJohn R Gordon interviews Vikram Kolmannskog about his new collection, Lord of the SensesWho — or what — first inspired you to write? (prose fiction, that is.) Any childhood or school favourites, or books secretly discovered…Oct 13, 2019Oct 13, 2019
john r gordonJohn 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, 2019May 12, 2019
john r gordonThe Healing Necessity of Imagining Gay HistoryHistory 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, 2019Feb 16, 2019
john r gordonImagining Gay Love Under SlaveryAs 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, 2018Nov 8, 2018
john r gordonJohn R Gordon: Drapetomania: my love letterWhen young and first becoming conscious in the world I was inspired, even transformed, by African-American writers and activists. At that…Apr 10, 2018Apr 10, 2018