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A Nocturne for Edmund White

We remember the transformative gay writer and celebrate Pride month with a trio of queer stories of love and lust.

Edmund White and Garth Greenwell on ‘Nocturnes for the King of Naples'

Nocturnes for the King of Naples by Edmund White with a foreword by Garth Greenwell reflects on love, life and time in this stunning epistolary novel. Both authors joined the Poured Over Podcast to talk to us about bringing back this novel from 1978, the evolution of style and themes, musicality in creative writing and more with Miwa Messer, host of Poured Over.

Garth Greenwell on Edmund White’s Brilliant Neglected Novel About the Search for a Lost Older Lover

“Nocturnes for the King of Naples,” by Edmund White, stands outside current fashions, with its refined pleasures and its nuanced accounts of gay lives.