Ethan Mordden

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  • Bibliography:
    14 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    May 1976
  • Latest Book:
    January 2013
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Full Series List in Order

Buddies

Buddies (Jun-1987)
Everybody Loves You (Sep-1988)
Some Men Are Lookers (Jun-1997)

Book List in Order: 14 titles

  • Better Foot Forward

  • That Jazz

  • One Last Waltz

    In this brilliant and lyrical novel of family passions and personal fate, Ethan Mordden weaves a family saga of fiery intensity, as the scornful Witch of Fooley plays chess with the King of Tara to determine the fate of his sons....

  • Buddies

    Buddies

    "What unites us, all of us, surely is brotherhood, a sense that our friendships are historic, designed to hold Stonewall together," muses on character in Ethan Mordden's Buddies. This need for friendship, for nonerotic affection, for buddies, shines ...

  • Everybody Loves You

    Buddies

    A gay ghost, a talking dog, and a street kid who thinks he's an elf-child join our narrator Bud, best friend Dennis Savage, eternally young Little Kiwi, devastating hunk Carlo, and the other characters from I've a Feeling We're Not in Kansas Anymore ...

  • Waves

    Avant-garde photographers and closeted cops. Sexual buccaneers and yearning celibates. Dutiful uncles and embittered sons. Healthy men who live in terror of getting sick. Sick men who find that their debility suddenly makes them fearless.

    What...

  • How Long Has This Been Going On?

    How Long Has This Been Going On? brings together a rich and varied cast of characters to tell the tale of modern gay America in this remarkable epic novel. Beginning in 1949 and moving to the present day, Mordden puts a unique and innovating spin on ...

  • I've a Feeling We're Not in Kansas Anymore

    "We have traded tales, my buddies and I; of affairs, encounters, secrets, fears, self-promotion-of fantasies that we make real in the telling." In this, the first volume in Ethan Mordden's acclaimed trilogy on Manhattan gay life, he introduces a smal...

  • Some Men Are Lookers

    Buddies

    Some Men Are Lookers, Ethan Mordden's much lauded fourth volume in his "Buddies" cycle, follows the exploits of his best-loved characters-Dennis Savage, Little Kiwi, Carlo, the 'elf-child' Cosgrove, and narrator Bud. Mordden lays bare the emotional l...



  • The Venice Adriana

    Greek-American opera singer Adriana Grafanas is the most famous opera singer of her time and her scandals, temperament, and cancellations were the stuff of international headlines. Now, in her early 60s, her voice is in shreds and she is near retirem...

  • How's Your Romance?

    Mordden explores a tricky moral universe in which emotional loyalty is exalted but sexual fidelity is not assumed...There is a sense of real pain amid the zingers; Mordden's characters run their mouths to avoid baring their souls." -- New York Times ...

  • The Jewcatcher

    Adolf Hitler, the romantic poet Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, two young gay lovers, Claus von Stauffenberg and the other heroes of the July 20, 1944 plot to end the Nazi regime, the ancient Norse gods, and the Devil himself are among the many character...

  • The Passionate Attention of an Interesting Man

    “Ethan Mordden is a master craftsman. His style combines the satirical urbanity of Juvenal, the wit of Oscar Wilde, the intelligence and drawing-room sophistication of Jane Austen.” -- Bay Windows In this new collection of fiction, a porn star t...

  • The Passtionate Attention of an Interesting Man

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Ethan Mordden has published 14 books.

Ethan Mordden does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Passtionate Attention of an Interesting Man, was published in January 2013.

The first book by Ethan Mordden, Better Foot Forward, was published in May 1976.

Yes. Ethan Mordden has 1 series.
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