![]() ![]() Toklas to him and combined them with a long memoir, with photographs, in Dear Sammy (St. Steward edited the letters from Gertrude Stein and Alice B. (There are several more available as used books, but at exorbitant prices: My Brother, My Self Greek Ways Roman Conquests Boys in Blue The Joy Spot.) Literate porn with a male hustler as its central character. I have four Phil Andros books: $tud (1966), Below the Belt (1982), Different Strokes (1984), Shuttlecock (1992). Kinsey’s Sexual Behavior in the Human Male (1948) (a book from which I learned an enormous amount about sex as a kid, starting around age 9 astonishingly, it was available on the shelves of the Reading PA public library and wasn’t stolen or defaced). x) some of the pseudonyms Steward published under: Donald Bishop, Philip Cave, John McAndrews, Phil Sparrow, Philip Sparrow, Ward Stames, D.O.C., Ted Kramer, Biff Thomas, as well as Phil Andros.Īs someone who had sex with an enormous number of men (some of them very famous) and kept records of his encounters, he was a valued source of data for Alfred C. Toklas, Christopher Isherwood, the photographer George Platt Lynes and others, he was simply Sammy. ![]() To a close circle of artistic friends like Wilder, Cadmus, Gertrude Stein, Alice B. But as the author of gay pulp fiction, he went by Phil Andros and a half-dozen other pseudonyms Hells Angels in Oakland, Calif., who used him as their official tattoo artist, called him Doc Sparrow readers of his articles in underground newspapers and magazines knew him as Ward Stames. The novelist and professor at a Roman Catholic university who was born in 1909 into an austere and puritanical Methodist household in Ohio was Samuel M. Continuing the pseudonyms theme, I turn to the remarkable character Samuel Steward, the subject of Secret Historian: The Life and Times of Samuel Steward, Professor, Tattoo Artist, and Sexual Renegade by Justin Spring (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010), which was nominated for a National Book Award this year (but was aced out by Patti Smith’s touching Just Kids).īack on August 26, the NYT Arts section had a piece (“Sexual Outlaw on the Gay Frontier” by Patricia Cohen) about the book and the man.
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