title: Hear Us Out: Conversations with Gay Novelists
author:  Richard Canning 
description: <i>Hear Us Out</i> is going to become, like Richard Canning's previous book of interviews,<i>Gay Fiction Speaks,</i> a standard reference for scholars. That's an appropriately exalted, climate-controlled fate for a wonderful book.... Canning has a wonderful knack for this work. (David McConnell <i>Lambda Book Report</i>)<br /><br />Canning offers up more of the meaty, critically rich interviews (Christopher Hennessy <i>The Gay and Lesbian Review</i>)
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  **_Praise for the books of Steve Neil
  
  
  Johnson:_**
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  **_The Yellow Canary:_**
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  **Lambda Literary Award Finalist**
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  “Steve
  
  
  Neil Johnson returns in top form…the series promises to provide both extremely
  
  
  good reads and a better understanding of gay American life during a very
  
  
  crucial period.” --Lambda Literary Review
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  “Terrific…Steve
  
  
  Neil Johnson writes like a _You Are There_ newscaster —breathless,
  
  
  on-the-spot reporting—and paints word images like a Weegee crime photo. His is
  
  
  the voice of a generation of gays who had only just begun, haltingly and
  
  
  courageously, to speak for themselves. Come for the page-turning storytelling,
  
  
  stay for the engrossing journey to a historical era that lies at the roots of
  
  
  modern day liberation. It’s a great book.” --Eric A. Gordon, author of _Mark
  
  
  the Music: The Life and Work of Marc Blitzstein_
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  “This is a real
  
  
  treat—believable characters who illuminate the da