Tag: The Bronze and the Wine
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Notes on The Bronze and the Wine (1966)
By total coincidence, Maggie and I both read Born to Be Gay + The Bronze and the Wine back-to-back—just in opposite order. I read Born in a single September sitting, and then, disappointed, remembered Randall Ivey calling Bronze “one of [Victor’s] most accomplished works of fiction in terms of characterization and plot structure” in The…
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Notes on Born to Be Gay (1966)
I’ll be frank: Born to Be Gay and The Bronze and the Wine are two of my least favorite of Victor’s gay pulps, but I’m going to try to do my best by them anyhow. I don’t have a ton to say in defense of content or quality besides providing the context that they’re also…
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Same, Same, Different (1966)
Same, Same, Different To understand Victor as a writer I began reading his books in alphabetical order. I had read a couple of his early pulps like AC-DC Lover and the C.A.M.P. series, but many were his gothic romance and gothic terror books such as Bishop’s Place, Blood Moon, Blood Ruby, Bloodstone, etc. Recently, I…