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inside the underside of the top-level Californians as they chase the grail of fame and fortune across the brows of those less fortunate (or less avaricious).

Horray Alan! The National Enquirer goes hardcover!

What Mr. Cartnal has done (and very skillfully) is taken the tintillations of the fast-lane California life and added some illustrative fiction to produce a work that resembles nothing more than a 2034 page scandal sheet.

It should sell a million copies, easy. Chock full of Names and Places, it should appeal to the bored breeder mentality of most people who read such rags as the Star or the Enquirer for their thrills. The excursions into the gay life of Hollywood would shock only such minds; to a gay person who has

any brain whatsoever it will come as more like a statement of the obvious. That gay people are in every aspect of entertainment in El-Lay surprises no one that knows anything at all about human beings. That it is "explored" here in this gossipy style lends credence to the idea that homosexuality is something to be whispered about, a fun but naughty pasttime for the rich and glamorous, or something to be used to get ahead, not done by square, respectable folk.

That a society which produces such phenomenon as Hollywood and the Moral Majority should be diverse enough to encompass such bawdy happenings as are detailed in Mr. Cartnal's work is only logical.

It is also logical that it would produce such a book.

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DANIEL CURZON Credit: John Rowberry

METRA MAGAZINE.14.

Human Warmth and Other Stories

by Daniel Curzon

Softcover, $4.95 Published by: Grey Fox Press

BOOK REVIEW BY MIKE RAY ome Town Boy Makes Good. Daniel Curzon (of Among the Carnivores and Something You Do in the Dark fame) grew up in Detroit and went to U of D and Wayne State and taught at both schools, too. Something You Do in the Dark takes place in Detroit, in fact.

Now his latest publication, a collection of stories entitled Human Warmth and Other Stories is out. Curzon's works are usually greeted with enthusiasm by his readers (some might say, have said, too much enthusiasm), and they should be pleased with this latest offering. I

was.

Curzon's constant variety is what

I find refreshing; in this collection it is made manifest. His M.O. is to

write about a human situation, understandable by all, but with a gay theme. The first work of the book, "The Housewife and the Homosexual' is written from two perspectives an interesting variation. "Heiratige" is a lesbian love tragedy, and "How Will We Recognize Evil When We See It, and What Will We Do About It If We Do?" is an easily understandable illustration of hetrosexism at its most despicable. The balance of the stories are well-crafted and moving, too, but the aforementioned are, in my opinion, the most powerful.

This is my favorite type of book, offering different tastes of different worlds, different styles. The stories are vignettes of our reality, and well done; the book is recommended.