In 2005, CyLibris, a gay publishing company in France, published a French-language edition of a collection of my gay and AIDS-themed short stories titled Les Fantômes (translation The Ghosts) — in cooperation with “sida, Grande Cause Nationale 2005,” a national French AIDS organization. In case you are a little curious about how this book came about: A little more than a decade ago, Anne-Laure Hubert, a graduate student in Belgium, translated into French my first collection of short stories, Dancing on the Moon, for her masters thesis. In 2003, Anne-Laure located me on the Internet and e-mailed me to let me know she had translated my stories and asked if I wanted to see her thesis. For me, it was a truly strange experience — to read and rediscover my early stories (and now in a foreign language) and to revisit many of the issues and themes which seemed to have evaporated from gay life — and my own consciousness. Anne-Laure had several unanswered questions regarding her translation — idioms and footnotes and specifics relating to gay life or life in the U.S. — and together we polished a final translation which we submitted to CyLibris — and this edition really owes a lot to her tremendous faith and understanding of these stories, as well as her acceptance of gay life and the historical impact AIDS has had upon it, particularly in the early years of the epidemic and in the United States. Olivier Gainon and the folks at CyLibris have produced a beautiful edition of these short stories — and if you know any French language speakers or citizens, I hope that you will encourage them to support Cylibris and any French, international, or local AIDS organization.

The first collection of short fiction in more than a decade from the author of Where the Rainbow Ends and Dancing on the Moon, Desire, Lust, Passion, Sex brings together nineteen stories by Jameson Currier—including six never-before-published works as well as the author’s widely praised short fiction previously published in literary journals, Web sites, and award-winning anthologies such as Best Gay Erotica, Best American Erotica, and Men on Men. In this new collection, the author meticulously details the search for love, romance, and partnership between gay men, and his characteristically spare prose brings into sharp relief the sometimes maddening traits that constitute a person’s romantic ideal and shows how the quest for a meaningful relationship can transform—or derail—the course of our lives.

“Jameson Currier is a literary rara avis, a topflight American short story writer who treads where he pleases, and doesn’t acknowledge genre boundaries. At its best, his work—particularly his erotica—is filtered through an exquisite poetic sensibility, and a prism of humanity that lifts the story above and away from anything as pedestrian as a genre, and into the realm of fine literature.”
—Michael Rowe, author of Looking for Brothers and Other Men’s Sons

“In his new collection, Jameson Currier reasserts himself as one of our preeminent masters of the short narrative form. Currier plays with points of view: first-person and third person, to be sure, but also the rarely used (and even more rarely used well) second-person point of view. In these lapidary tales, he computes the inscrutable calculus of desire with uncanny accuracy. In fact, there is such precision in both the foreground and background details of each tale that this collection is nothing less than HDST—High Definition Story Telling. The effect is often unnerving. This is not a microscope that Currier presents to you, dear reader; it is a mirror. And objects in mirror are closer than they appear.”
—Thomas L. Long, editor-in-chief,Harrington Gay Men's Fiction Quarterly

Where the Rainbow Ends
Overlook Press, 2000
352 pages. ISBN: 1-58567-084-7. $14.95

Where the Rainbow Ends
Overlook Press, 1998
352 pages. ISBN: 0-87951-892-8. $24.95

The acquiring editor was Hermann Lademann

“Beautifully written and profoundly moving.”
—Greg Herren, Lambda Book Report

“Currier is adept at drawing a fine line between the erotic and the tragic, and at telling stories that 'although personal, are also the stories of our community.'” Where the Rainbow Ends feels like the fictionalized history of a generation of gay men.”
—Erik Burns, The New York Times Book Review

“Currier tells a moving tale in which, in the face of devastating losses, Robbie and his 'stitched-together' family, now in Los Angeles, are able to emerge from grief strengthened by the stories they carry. Currier has created a powerful monument honoring a generation of gay men lost to AIDS and their wounded resilient survivors.”
—Publishers Weekly

Inspired by the Book of Job, Where The Rainbow Ends is the story of a gay man’s search for faith and understanding. Raised by a stern, religious father in a small Southern town, Robbie Taylor settles into New York City as an optimistic, romantic, young gay man with a circle of new friends with whom he navigates the idyllic sexual revelry of the 1970s. At the heart of Robbie’s new life are his lovers and friends who become his surrogate family: Vince, a playwright who shepherds Robbie into gay culture and activism; Jeff, a too-handsome actor with a enigmatic spiritual quest; Denise, a lesbian artist who yearns to understand motherhood; and Nathan, who becomes Robbie’s lover in the 1980s just as the AIDS epidemic becomes the epicenter of their world. As Robbie’s losses surmount and his faith is tested, he leaves Manhattan in the 1990s for Los Angeles where he suffers more adversity before finding redemption as an activist and father and once again allowing love to enter his life.

Jameson Currier was awarded the Arch and Bruce Brown Foundation grant for fiction for this novel, which was cited for its historical breadth and depiction of the gay and lesbian communities during the AIDS crisis. The novel was also nominated for a Lambda Literary Award for Best Gay Male Fiction, 1998.