Name Brad Gooch | Role Writer | |
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Awards Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts, US & Canada Nominations Lambda Literary Award for Gay Men's Biography/Autobiography Books Flannery: A Life of Flannery, City Poet: The Life and Time, Finding the boyfriend within, Dating the Greek Gods, The golden age of promiscuity Similar People Flannery O'Connor, Tennessee Williams, Carson McCullers, Truman Capote, Alfred Corn | ||
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Brad Gooch (born 1952) is an American writer.
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Biography
Born and raised in Kingston, Pennsylvania, he graduated from Columbia University with a bachelors in 1973 and a doctorate in 1986.
Gooch is currently a Professor of English at William Paterson University in New Jersey. He has lived in New York City since 1971. His 2015 memoir Smash Cut recounts life in 1970s and 1980s New York City, including the time Gooch spent as a fashion model, life with his then-boyfriend filmmaker Howard Brookner, living in the famous Chelsea Hotel and the first decade of the AIDS crisis.
Gooch is married to writer and religious activist Paul Raushenbush; they have one child.
Critical reception
His book Jailbait and Other Stories was selected by Donald Barthelme for a Pushcart Foundation Writer's Choice Award. His writing has appeared in the Paris Review, Partisan Review, Bomb, the New Republic, Harper's Bazaar, The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, Out, New York, the Los Angeles Times Book Review, The Nation, Travel + Leisure, and American Poetry Review.
His most acclaimed work is a biography of the poet Frank O'Hara, City Poet. His book, Finding the Boyfriend Within, calls for gay men to cultivate self-respect by cultivating an imaginary lover.