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Update on my October reads: "Hotel de Dream", by the legendary Edmund White. The last days of Stephen Crane and his fictitious novel, The Painted Boy. #edmundwhite #readmorebooks #readmore #leemás #leemáslibros #lgbtliterature #stephencrane #hoteldedream #thepaintedboy (at Chez Brixton) https://www.instagram.com/p/CGknor2DyKP/?igshid=1119zmra253y7

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#10yearsagotoday Event #9: Edmund White - Hotel de Dream It's about 20years since I read White's roman à clef 'A Boy's Own Story', and this year's novel is also a fictionalised account of a young man's life. However, this time, instead of drawing back the curtain on the beginning of an adult life, White gives an account of the last days of Stephen Crane, author The Red Badge of Courage who died of tuberculosis in 1900 at the age of 28. Crane left the US with his wife Cora, a brothel proprietor, settling in Sussex where they moved in the circles of H.G. Wells, Joseph Conrad and Henry James. In the excerpt read for us this evening, Henry James comes to visit, and White has some fun with him in this cameo appearance. I just got this blurred with the author - my usual bad luck in handing a camera to someone who makes a hash of it. #Scotland2007 #Scotland #Edinburgh #EdmundWhite #hoteldedream (at Edinburgh International Book Festival)