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Jack Parlett

Jack Parlett
Jack Parlett is a writer, poet and scholar. He is the author of The Poetics of Cruising: Queer Visual Culture from Whitman to Grindr, published by the University of Minnesota Press, and Same Blue, Different You, a chapbook. His essays have appeared in the New Yorker, Boston Review, Poetry London, Lit Hub and elsewhere. His new book Fire Island is out now with Hanover Square Press.


Who is Fire Island for? On the Currency of Reading (and Six Packs) in Pines Society

How Joel Kim Booster’s Rom-Com Engages with Literary History
July 8, 2022  By Jack Parlett
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“I do not like people whose principal aim is pleasure.” When James Baldwin Went to Fire Island

Jack Parlett on Where the Iconic Writer Wrote Another Country
June 14, 2022  By Jack Parlett
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The Complex Queer Literary History of Fire Island

Jack Parlett on the Storied Legacy of a Legendary Long Island Getaway
June 25, 2019  By Jack Parlett
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