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A review of Katherine V. Forrest's new anthology, Lesbian Pulp Fiction:
The Sexually Intrepid World of Lesbian Paperback Novels (Cleis Press, 2005),
is the cover article in Toronto's "Xtra: News and Views" for August 5, 2005.
In the accompanying feature article by Nicola Luksic, Ann is one of three authors
interviewed from the so-called "Golden Age of the Lesbian Pulps." The book review
is by Jennifer O'Connor. To see the article, go to the following website:
www.xtra.ca, (look for the
August 12, 2005, online edition), and click on "Trashy and Tragic."
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Documentaries
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"Before Stonewall: The Making of a Gay and Lesbian Community"
Schiller, Rosenberg, Scagliotti, directors
Produced by the Center for the Study of Filmed History (1984) |
"Forbidden Love: The Unashamed Stories of Lesbian Lives"
Weissman, Fernie, directors
Produced by National Film Board of Canada (1992) |
"Queen of the Lesbian Pulps":
Television interview for "In the Life: the TV Newsmagazine of Record
on Gay and Lesbian America," January 2004. Ann is interviewed walking through
the streets of Greenwich Village for a nostalgic look back at the place
where her stories began a half century ago.
For further information, see the website:
www.ITL.tv
and www.inthelifetv.org |
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Interviews, Critiques, & Biographical Bits
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Selected and Current
"Interview with Ann Bannon"
by David Garland
Host of the Radio Show "Spinning on Air" on New York Public Radio
broadcast, Sunday, November 26, 2006.
www.wnyc.org/shows/spinning/episodes/2006/11/26
Please click on the link to listen to the whole interview.
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"Interview with Ann Bannon" by Anna Maria Tremonti
December 14, 2004.
For "The Current," a news and interview show on Canadian Broadcast Company, Toronto.
To read about or to audit the interview, go to:
www.cbc.ca/thecurrent/
To listen to the interview, scroll to the bottom of the page and
click on
"Listen to The Current, Part 3."
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"Interview with Ann Bannon"
by Terry Gross
Host of the radio show "Fresh Air" on National Public Radio
Original broadcast, December 8, 1999; Rebroadcast August 28, 2003.
Click here to listen to the interview:
www.npr.org
Now published as "You Will Not Find the Word 'Lesbian',"
in All I Did Was Ask: Conversations with Writers, Actors, Musicians, and Artists by Terry Gross
(Hyperion Press, New York, NY; August 2004); pp. 87 - 93. |
- www.glbtq.com.
has an online biography of Ann Bannon (use alphabetized search engine), as
well as numerous other authors, writers, poets, artists, and contributors to
the community. Access to this excellent online encyclopedia, maintained and
administered by Dr. Ted-Larry Pebworth and Dr. Claude Summers, is free.
- The Encyclopedia of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History
in America, in three volumes; editor-in-chief, Mark Stein (Charles Scribner's
Sons/Thompson-Gale, New York, 2004); Vol. 1, "Actors to Gyms," pp. 112 - 114:
"Ann Bannon," entry written by Mary Elliott.
- The Gay & Lesbian Literary Heritage: A Reader's Companion to the Writers
and Their Works, from Antiquity to the Present,
ed. Claude J. Summers.
(Revised edition, Routledge, London & New York, 2002).
- Becoming Visible: An Illustrated History of Lesbian and Gay Life in
Twentieth-Century America,
by Wasserman, McGarry, & Bowling. (Penguin Books,
New York & London, 1998).
- Leading the Parade: Conversations with American's Most Influential Lesbians
and Gay Men,
by Paul D. Cain. (Scarecrow Press, Boston & Folkestone, England,
2002).
- Happy Endings: Lesbian Writers Talk About Their Lives and Work,
by Kate
Brandt. (Naiad Press, 1993).
- "Acts of Individual Valor": Interview by Katherine V. Forrest.
"Lambda
Book Report," Vol. 10, No. 7, February 2002.
- "A True Original: Lesbian Pulp Fiction; Ann Bannon in Chicago." Interview
with Jorjet Harper.
"Windy City Times," March 27. 2002.
- Particular Voices: Portraits of Gay and Lesbian Writers,
by Robert Giard.
(M.I.T. Press, Cambridge, MA, 1997).
- Foundlings: Lesbian and Gay Historical Emotion Before Stonewall, Chapt. 4,
"The Ambivalence of Lesbian Pulp Fiction,"
by Christopher Nealon. (Duke
University Press, Durham & London, 2001).
- "Interview with Ann Bannon"
by Terry Gross, host of the radio show "Fresh Air" on National Public Radio;
original broadcast, December 8, 1999; rebroadcast August 28, 2003.
Now published as "You Will Not Find the Word 'Lesbian',"
in All I Did Was Ask: Conversations with Writers, Actors, Musicians, and Artists by Terry Gross
(Hyperion Press, New York, NY; August 2004); pp. 87 - 93.
- "Where Are They Now? The Lesbian Firsts,"
Curve Magazine, June 2002.
- "Women's Writes: Books That Shaped Us,"
Lambda Book Report, January 2002.
- "A Book Trying to Show Human Warmth,"
by Waka Tsunoda, AP Weekly Features,
October 2001
- "The Return of Lesbian Pulp,"
Many Laughland, Seattle Gay Standard, June
25, 2001
- "Book Review: Return of the Lurid Lesbians,"
Carol Anshaw, The Advocate,
August 28, 2001.
- "Pulp Vixen,"
Ronni Radner, Out Magazine, September 2001
- "A Classic Butch Bombshell,"
Kevin Riordan, The Washington Blade, August
2001.
- "A True Original: Lesbian Pulp Fiction,"
Interview by Jorjet Harper, Chicago Windy City Times, March 27, 2002.
- "The Queen of Lesbian Pulp,"
Interview by Diana Cage, On Our Backs, August/September 2002.
- "Steamy Gay Pulp Has Shown Staying Power,"
Annie Nakao, San Francisco Chronicle, August 8, 2002. |
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