From the author of Where the Rainbow Ends and The Haunted Heart comes a witty tour de force of spirits, spooks, and sinners, a supernatural rollercoaster set in the Big Easy that is giddy, soulful, and sentimental. A novel set in a haunted gay-owned guesthouse in New Orleans. Chelsea Station Editions, 2010 282 pages ISBN: 978-0-9844707-0-9 $16                    The Haunted Heart and Other Tales Lethe Press, 2009 212 pages. ISBN: 1590212037; ISBN-13: 978-1590212035; $15   Short stories included:   The Woman in the Window The Incident at the Highlands Inn The Country House The After Party The Haunted Heart The Theater Bug Wait! Death in Amsterdam The Vision A Touch of Darkness The Man in the Mirror The Bloomsbury Nudes   The acquiring editor was Steve Berman.	In his newest collection of short stories, The Haunted Heart and Other Tales, author Jameson Currier modernizes the traditional ghost story with gay lovers, loners, activists, and addicts, blending history and contemporary issues of the gay community with the unexpected of the supernatural.   “Jameson Currier’s The Haunted Heart and Other Tales expands upon the usual ghost story tropes by imbuing them with deep metaphorical resonance to the queer experience. Infused with flawed, three-dimensional characters, this first-rate collection strikes all the right chords in just the right places. Equal parts unnerving and heartrending, these chilling tales are testament to Currier’s literary prowess and the profound humanity at the core of his writing. Gay, straight, twisted like a pretzel…his writing is simply not to be missed by any reader with a taste for good fiction.” Vince Liaguno, Dark Scribe Magazine
Still Dancing: New and Selected Stories Lethe Press, 2008 302 pages. ISBN: 1590210484; ISBN-13: 9781590210482; $18   Short stories included:   The Chelsea Rose What They Carried Winter Coats Dancing on the Moon Ghosts What You Talk About Reunions Montebello View Pasta Night Jade Who the Boys Are Civil Disobedience Fearless Everybody is Always Somebody Else Health Someone Like You Still Dancing The Best of Bobby Red Do I Know You? Manhattan Transfer   The acquiring editor was Steve Berman.	Still Dancing: New and Selected Stories by Jameson Currier, published by Lethe Press, brings together 20 of the author’s short stories about the impact of AIDS on the gay community which have been written over the last three decades. Along with ten stories from Currier’s debut collection Dancing on the Moon (1993), praised by The Village Voice as “defiant and elegiac,” are ten newly selected stories written by one of our preeminent masters of the short narrative form. And for this new collection the author has also chosen stories that revolve around gay New Yorkers—those lost, those surviving, those displaced, those undaunted, and those who became expatriates.
Les Fantômes Cylibris, 2005 274 pages, ISBN: 2-843581532  18€   Préface par Jean-Luc Romero Introduction par Anne-Laure Hubert Note de l’auteur Les amis Résistance passive Manteaux d’hiver Retrouvailles Danse sur la lune L’appartement de Montebello Week-ends Rencontre avec un inconnu La pire chose qui puisse arriver Qui sont ces garçons? Couleur jade Fantômes   French language translation by Anne-Laure Hubert. The acquiring editor was Olivier Gainon.	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.
Desire, Lust, Passion, Sex Green Candy Press, 2004 302 pages. ISBN: 1-931160-25-2. $14.95 Short stories included: Lessons Snow What Is Enough? First Shave Alibis Fearless A Date with Dracula, a Trick with Tarzan What You Learn Impromptu Elvis Is Alive and Working on Eighth Avenue Expatriates What You Find Flash Gordon at the Exclusive Dating Service for Men A Kiss Grown-ups The Man of My Dreams Desire, Lust, Passion, Sex What Counts Most Buddies The acquiring editor was Kevin Bentley.	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.
Dancing on the Moon: Short Stories About AIDS Penguin, 1994 188 pages. ISBN: 0-14-017272-6. $9.95 Short stories included: Introduction (paperback edition only) What They Carried Civil Disobedience Winter Coats Reunions Dancing on the Moon Montebello View Weekends What You Talk About The Absolute Worst Who The Boys Are Jade Ghosts Dancing on the Moon: Short Stories About AIDS Viking, 1993 188 pages. ISBN: 0-670-84656-2. $20.00 The acquiring editor was Edward Iwanicki.	“Jameson Currier’s kind of fiction can recreate reality more accurately than a cinema verité account of our daily lives.” —Abraham Verghese, The Washington Post “The most sustained and affecting American AIDS fiction of 1993 was Jameson Currier’s collection Dancing on the Moon. At the heart of most of these 'simple' realistic stories are acts of ‘passionate’ caretaking that demonstrate how the lives of gay men under AIDS, their friends, and families ‘keep interweaving’ and that unembarrasedly convey ‘the unbearable sorrow which had punctured their souls.’” —Joseph Cady on “AIDS Literature” in Gay and Lesbian Literary History, edited by Claude J. Summers, Owl Books, 1995 “Some people may refrain from reading Dancing on the Moon out of a discomfort with AIDS. That would be a shame. As the band plays on, AIDS spirals deeper into our lives. To ask fiction to ignore what it has always done best: mirror the times in which we live, and the ways in which we survive, Dancing on the Moon reaches to fulfill that obligation with an effort of the first order. For that reason, and for the sheer good talent of Jameson Currier, this collection deserves a wide readership.” —Robert Drake, Baltimore Alternative In the title story from Dancing on the Moon, a young man, thinking of all his friends who have died from AIDS and those who are ill, says: “No one out there has a clue as to what our lives are like. All this is as strange to them as dancing on the moon.” The speaker, marveling at the gulf that separates those affected by AIDS from a world that thinks itself immune, is just one of the characters in this book of twelve stories about the impact of AIDS, particularly as it has reverberated through the lives of gay men. The author writes not only about those who are living with AIDS and those who have died from it but also about the friends, families, and lovers who nurse and care for the sick and remember them afterward. His characters range from rebellious Southern teenagers to an elderly Jewish woman whose grandson has died, to an infant with AIDS adopted by an AIDS widower and his new lover. “What They Carried” concerns the things friends bring and give to another friend over the course of his struggle with the disease. “Reunions” finds two men sharing a bizarre cab ride in the last days of their illnesses. In “The Absolute Worst,” a woman reunites two former lovers from her college years. A woman submerges herself in the new life of her dead brother’s lover in order to come to terms with her own losses in “Weekends.” In “Ghosts” a man seeks out a dying acquaintance in an unconscious attempt to justify his own lover’s suicide. In all the stories, men and women search for order and reason during a health crisis that knows no rationale.