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Dying Popes and gays with matches—two of my favorite subjects. Daniel Allen Cox reminds us that queers and their allies from Krakow to California won’t stand for institutions getting between them and an orgasm. I say burn it all down, especially if it has stained glass. And buy this book!
—Michael Musto, Village Voice columnist, author of Fork on the Left, Knife in the Back (Michael Musto )
I’ve been a fan of Daniel Allen Cox’s writing for some time, and in Krakow Melt the wit, punch and sexual heat of Shuck return, revved up even more. As we read we slip into a free zone of writing, almost as if the boundaries of the page had themselves slipped away and we were free to wander through Eastern Europe like natives, with the haunted and nomadic gaze of those on whom history has given up. Cox brings us a story of struggle, defeat, liberation and love that I will never forget.
—Kevin Killian, author of Spreadeagle and Impossible Princess (Kevin Killian )
Strange, provocative, and daring: all adjectives that fit Daniel Allen Cox’s work. In Krakow Melt, the writer gets stranger, more provocative, and more daring. Best of all, he's given us a novel that’s both thrilling and fun to read.
—Scott Heim, author of Mysterious Skin and We Disappear (Scott Heim )
Krakow Melt is Syd Barrett crossed with the Polish queer nation, a rollicking and heart-pounding urban jump through some grim realities and fine prose stylings.
—Zoe Whittall, author of Bottle Rocket Hearts and Holding Still For As Long As Possible (Zoe Whittall )
The description of a gay pride march ought to be prescribed reading for anybody who thinks activism is passe. Let your sense of foreboding guide you through Krakow Melt until you smell gasoline and realize you are gripping your own box of matches.
—Patrick Califia, author of Public Sex and Macho Sluts (Patrick Califia )
—Michael Musto, Village Voice columnist, author of Fork on the Left, Knife in the Back (Michael Musto )
I’ve been a fan of Daniel Allen Cox’s writing for some time, and in Krakow Melt the wit, punch and sexual heat of Shuck return, revved up even more. As we read we slip into a free zone of writing, almost as if the boundaries of the page had themselves slipped away and we were free to wander through Eastern Europe like natives, with the haunted and nomadic gaze of those on whom history has given up. Cox brings us a story of struggle, defeat, liberation and love that I will never forget.
—Kevin Killian, author of Spreadeagle and Impossible Princess (Kevin Killian )
Strange, provocative, and daring: all adjectives that fit Daniel Allen Cox’s work. In Krakow Melt, the writer gets stranger, more provocative, and more daring. Best of all, he's given us a novel that’s both thrilling and fun to read.
—Scott Heim, author of Mysterious Skin and We Disappear (Scott Heim )
Krakow Melt is Syd Barrett crossed with the Polish queer nation, a rollicking and heart-pounding urban jump through some grim realities and fine prose stylings.
—Zoe Whittall, author of Bottle Rocket Hearts and Holding Still For As Long As Possible (Zoe Whittall )
The description of a gay pride march ought to be prescribed reading for anybody who thinks activism is passe. Let your sense of foreboding guide you through Krakow Melt until you smell gasoline and realize you are gripping your own box of matches.
—Patrick Califia, author of Public Sex and Macho Sluts (Patrick Califia )
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Shortlisted for an Independent Literary Award
This second novel by Lambda Literary Award finalist Daniel Allen Cox (Shuck) is an incendiary story about two pyromaniacs who fight homophobia in Krakow, Poland, one of the fronts of the Solidarnosc revolution that eventually toppled the Berlin Wall in 1989. It's 2005, and Poland is grappling with its newfound role as a member of the European Union; the nation dips into moral crisis as Pope John Paul II (a Pole) hovers near death while the country's soon-to-be president makes homophobic declarations.
Radek, a bisexual artist and a practitioner of the extreme urban sport parkour, is convinced that fire is the great stabilizer. While creating miniature replicas of the world’s great infernos―Chicago 1871, San Francisco 1906, London 1666―he meets Dorota, a literature student and budding pyromaniac. Driven by rage, sexual curiosity for one another, and Pink Floyd, they buck church, government, and the LGBT community to find sexual freedom, escaping their enemies by scaling the crumbling walls and ideas of the city.
Provocative and unnerving, Krakow Melt is at once a love letter and a fiery call to arms.
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2.0 out of 5 stars
This gets very tired after a while, April 24 2011
By Peter J. Hewson - Published on Amazon.com
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This review is from: Krakow Melt (Paperback)
Perhaps it's because I like a narrative form of prose but the 'jump-cut' style used here very quickly became tiresome (although it made this brief book easy to scan through). In the end I had the feeling that the author had nothing to say that couldn't have been said in short essay of a dozen pages. The rest was padding: an attempt (unsucessfully) in homour and trying just too hard to be witty with effectively no character development. Okay, Poland is a homophobic catholic nation where being out is not welcomed. This is not news. And it's not much to joke about.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Witty, sad, erudite, magnificent, Feb 10 2011
By Sometime Critic - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Krakow Melt (Paperback)
You mean I am the first to review this terrific novel? No! Well, I am honored. A brilliant, funny, unsettling look at what it was like to be oppressed - for being gay and for being an artist - in Communist and post-Communist Poland. Deeply affecting and playfully intellectual, Cox's novel investigates why some men really do just want to burn down the world. And some women, too. And a bonus: this is a 100% believable portrayal of bisexuality, from the moment Radek and Dorota meet. You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll feel the danger, and you'll feel the impulse to burn it all down (or at least the wish to see soemone else burn it all down!).
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