Will Aitken
Description
Will Aitken is an American-Canadian novelist, journalist and film critic. Originally from Terre Haute, Indiana, he has been based in Montreal, Quebec since moving to that city to attend McGill University in 1972. In Montreal, he was a cofounder of the city's first LGBT bookstore, Librairie L'Androgyne, in 1973. He has also worked as an arts journalist and film critic for a variety of media outlets, including the CBC, the BBC, National Public Radio, The Globe and Mail, Maclean's, The Paris Review, Christopher Street and the National Post. He published his first novel, Terre Haute, in 1989. He taught film studies at Dawson College in Montreal. In 2011, he published Death in Venice: A Queer Film Classic, a critical analysis of Luchino Visconti's 1971 film Death in Venice, as part of Arsenal Pulp Press's Queer Film Classics series.
Books
A visit home
"It began with the death of a friend - actually more of an acquaintance, which made it all the more disturbing for its irrationality. It continued in little ways, little disturbances, provoking his anger, upsetting the well-honed rhythm of his daily life."
Realia
Japanese pop culture and Greek myth, cross-dressing Japanese girls and muscular Japanese stuntmen, wild monkeys and earthquakes, speeding Maseratis and a woman who'll try anything twice collide in this sexy, funny, irreverent, no-holds-barred work of fiction.
Terre haute
Imagines the relationship between Gore Vidal, the author, and Timothy McVeigh, the Oklahoma City bomber, while McVeigh sits on death row.