Boys, Lost Found ebook

by Charles Casillo

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Boys, Lost and Found book. I found Boys, Lost and Found completely engrossing. Charles Casillo has written a really engaging collection of short stories, interspersed with some factual first-person narratives.

Boys, Lost and Found book. His writing is crisp, entertaining, and a quick read. Casillo’s portraiture is always astute, whether describing a horny number in a bar, a true love object, or a group of queens at a Starbucks - hot young guys who are growing older by the minute. The protagonists are young men.

I found "Boys, Lost and Found" completely engrossing Charles Casillo labeled the mixture of fiction and nonficiton in his delight-filled but often poignant book BOYS, LOST & FOUND simply "Stories," so does not seem troubled b. .

I found "Boys, Lost and Found" completely engrossing. Charles Casillo labeled the mixture of fiction and nonficiton in his delight-filled but often poignant book BOYS, LOST & FOUND simply "Stories," so does not seem troubled by readers' confusions. I'm sure that "The Secret of Marilyn Monroe" relates to the author's own fascination with Marilyn Monroe (he is the author of THE MARILYN DIARIES) and that what he writes about "John Rechy at Home" is based on his own experiences and observations.

This compelling collection explores the tangled inner lives of contemporary gay men. Fiction, memoir, and biographical sketches intermingle in these stories

Casillo's surprising and accomplished collection reveals a heartfelt observer of life's emotional emergencies and indignities told with immediacy and feeling.

Charles Casillo has spent years exploring his interests and obsessions such as tragic figures, exceptionally talented individuals, sex, dive bars, eccentrics, Marilyn Monroe and antidotes for insomnia, loneliness and insecurity. He has written about these and other subjects in his books The Marilyn Diaries, Outlaw: The Lives and Careers of John Rechy, The Fame Game, and Boys, Lost & Found. His movies are Let Me Die Quietly and Fetish. CONTRIBUTOR ARTICLES. Up from the Gutter: A Memoir by Joe Orton’s Sister.

Charles Casillo is the author of The Marilyn Diaries, The Fame Game, Boys, Lost & Found, and Outlaw: The Lives and Careers of John Rechy. His movies include "Let Me Die Quietly" and "Fetish.

Written by. Charles Casillo. Manufacturer: Gival Press, LLC Release date: 20 March 2006 ISBN-10 : 1928589332 ISBN-13: 9781928589334.

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Charles Casillo studies Monroe's life through the context of her times-in the days before feminism.

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This compelling collection explores the tangled inner lives of contemporary gay men. Fiction, memoir, and biographical sketches intermingle in these stories, creating portraits of men longing to connect. Casillo's people-whether hustlers, writers, models, cruisers, or despondent lovers-are complicated, smart, cool, witty, lusty and romantic. But under their glossy veneers the characters are vulnerable men dealing with deteriorating relationships, promiscuity, and betrayals.

Clandratha

I found "Boys, Lost and Found" completely engrossing. Charles Casillo has written a really engaging collection of short stories, interspersed with some factual first-person narratives. His writing is crisp, entertaining, and a quick read. Casillo's portraiture is always astute, whether describing a horny number in a bar, a true love object, or a group of queens at a Starbucks -- hot young guys who are growing older by the minute. The protagonists are young men. The antagonists are their older well-heeled lovers whom they crave. And, the result? Well, no spoilers here! Themes in the stories include loneliness, sex, love, self-love, self-esteem, kindness, decency, humiliation, aging, and the effect of glam lifestyles on gay relationships. At heart, though, "Boys, Lost and Found" is really about longing, in the sense of irrepressible, uncontrollable desire.

Some favorite lines:

"This was only sex, I tried to reason. Only another man and his body. But I couldn't help myself. I had been dead. Now I was alive."

"I have a tendency to think too much. This is something that, after much thought, I've concluded is wrong."

"The one you love first always makes an imprint. All the others that come after will have to, in some ways, match up to the first one."

Clever

I have heard several writers complain that many contemporary readers believe that nothing is invented in fiction and nothing is reliable in memoirs. Charles Casillo labeled the mixture of fiction and nonficiton in his delight-filled but often poignant book BOYS, LOST & FOUND simply "Stories," so does not seem troubled by readers' confusions.

I'm sure that "The Secret of Marilyn Monroe" relates to the author's own fascination with Marilyn Monroe (he is the author of THE MARILYN DIARIES) and that what he writes about "John Rechy at Home" is based on his own experiences and observations.

His piece on the legendary post-WWII kept man, Denny Fouts, tells a story of Fouts that fits with what I know about Fouts from bits and pieces written by others, and another piece on kept boy-men, "The Finer Things in Life" seems to tell their stories.

I think that the rest are fiction, though with varying degrees of connection to the author. A leitmotif here is a need to be desired. For Casillo's protagonists (unlike John Rechy's, like Matthew Rettemund's) the need to be desired is accompanied by a need to be loved.

The first-person narrators of the opening story and the novella that close the volume are frustrated at the need for continuous novelty of men whom the narrators would like to be the one and only.

I detest the turn that "Terrible Darkness" takes, though it is a genre of mystical violence that others enjoy. But that is the only one of the stories herein that I don't like. The narrators tend to be analytical (perhaps a bleeding of fiction and reportage) and similar in being handsome, thirty-something Italian-American writers or models or actors (all seeking success in highly competitive arenas) on one US coast or the othe. They are all romantics whose hearts are breaking or have recently been broken, but there is a range of other characters in their lives.

I think that Casillo is a very gifted and often wry story-teller "Woods" and "The Secret of Marilyn Monroe" are my favorites of the stories he tells in this collection. I look forward to reading more of his work.

Manona

I don't know how many times I've tried (and given up) browsing bookshops for compelling, gay-themed books that would hold my interest at least halfway to the rear cover. Who wants to read another thin, one-dimensional romance in which the same, tired cliches are played out: guy meets guy, guy desires guy, guy tries to get guy, conflict ensues, guy gets guy somehow anyway? The predicatbility of which is blatantly apparent by chapter 3...
By contrast, these short stories are what I've been looking for! Each one says and reveals more about the nuts and bolts of gay life and all that's really operating behind it than these other novels can do in 300+ pages. All the core themes of gay male life- desire, attraction, sex, isolation, loneliness, betrayal, romance and relationships- are compressed into realistic, palpable characters, settings and plots, and in these gripping portrayals, Casillo makes these archetypes collide dramatically so that between the cracks and tears, we can see down below, beneath all the hype and fantasy, what deeper forces are really operating within us all the way through.
It's been said by many: real life is far more intersting than fiction. Casillo understands this intimately and his stories not only prove more potent because we can identify very closely with them, his committment to bringing us some wisdom through the experiences is resoundingly clear. Through the all the characters' respective struggles, it is as if Casillo has decided their efforts should not be in vain and he sheds a realistic light on many a dark area, imparting the same sort of whipsmart insights and conclusions we all try to carry away from our endured conflicts, if we, indeed, are the type that is interested in growing and improving.