United States, Contemporary, Literary 

Second in this series, which ran from 1987 until 2001. This volume collects short fiction from 1988. Many reflect the writers' responses to the emerging issues to which AIDS gave rise. Includes an introduction by the editor and these stories: My Mother's Clothes: the School of Beauty and Shame (Richard McCann); The age of Anxiety (David Fienberg); Junge Dove (Joseph Pintauro); In This Corner (James Purdy); Solidarity (Albert Innaurato); Dancing on the Tishe B'av (Lev Raphael); Snapshot (Allen Barnett); Anything You Want (Christopher Coe); Ayor (David Leavitt); I Go Back to the Mais Oui (James McCourt); Why People Get Cancer ( Anderson Ferrell); Nobody's Child (David Groff); Once in Syracuse (David Brendan Hopes); Life Suck, or Ernest Hemingway Never Slept Here (Tim Barrus); Red Leaves (Melvin Dickson); Magic (Garry Glickman); The Boys in the Bars (Christopher Davis); Adult Art (Allan Gurganus). - from Amzon