Village Dreams - Paperback

by Jay Quint (Author)

In Village Dreams, Jay Quint merges his own existential crisis and writer's block into a chronicle of the evolution of counterculture and the emergence of the world's famous Gay Villages. These special enclaves, at once havens and ghettos, were at the heart of the willfully overlooked transition period between the collapse of the '60s youth movements, and the rise of the "new urbanism" in the early '70s. In reconjuring the zeitgeists of these mythic decades, the insights of the most influential critics, including Walter Benjamin, Susan Sontag, Joan Didion, Tom Wolfe, and many others, are placed side by side with those of "gay writers" like Edmund White (City Boy), Larry Kramer (Faggots), Andrew Holleran (Dancer from the Dance), and Armistead Maupin (Tales of the City).

Author Biography

Jay Quint is a writer from Montreal. The choice to work outside the academic environments left him intellectually homeless, yet free to explore. He travelled for long stretches of time, usually calling on Paris first. He's published articles in 2B, Être, Winq, Mate magazines, and now writes (creative) cultural criticism.