7 Books by Alexander Goodman
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Overview: George Haimsohn (aka Alexander Goodman), who co-wrote the low buget Busby Berkeley musical spoof "Dames at Sea" with Robin Miller, was born in St. Louis and served in the Navy in World War II. He graduated from the University of California at Berkeley, where he had his first poetry published in the student literary journal.
A resident of Greenwich Village since 1952, he was a professional photographer known as Plato, designed mobiles and collages and wrote stories, advertisements and limericks as well as gay pornographic fiction under the pen name Alexander Goodman. He died in 2003 at the age of 77.
He also wrote two other musicals, "Now, Zing!" and "Johnny American." He wrote and illustrated three other books for college readers, "The Portable Hamlet," "The Bedside Faust" and "Inside Romeo and Juliet," published in the 1980’s as Madcap Classics by Perigee/Putnam.
Genre: Romance, MM
A Summer on Fire Island (1968)
There is only one FIRE ISLAND!
Only ALEXANDER GOODMAN could possibly do it justice!
Now, in a full-length book containing 20 pages of photographs of faggots, drag queens, Fire Island scenes and pretty boys, Alexander Goodman has written the definitive story of Fire Island and the "happenings" that have given it an international reputation.
Just a few bits of conversation:
"…middle of entertaining a most attractive young sailor…" "…Miss P has slept with the boy…" "Yes, Mary, I brought your geisha costume…" "…Looks like a hustler to me. Young ,a lot of muscles…" "…It’s time he learned the facts of gay life…" "…There’s going to be a gang-bang at ‘The Kitty House’…" "…A ray of moonlight is hitting his face, which is contorted with pleasure…" "Please, you’re hurting me…" "…There was that one night when he let 15 guys…" "…After that night with Vance I stopped dating any girl that wouldn’t deliver…" "…They were sitting on this kid that was lying face down in the middle of the floor… I could hear him…" "…You can pick beautiful boys off the trees…" "Yes, there’s always the meat rack…" "…You’re the most handsome faggot I know…" "No! I’m giving up all this cruising, camping, carrying on…" "…One boy with smooth pale skin… A sweet dainty blond in a girl’s bathing suit…" "I haven’t done this with men… I’m not used to it…" "…Are you going to leave with me at 6 o’clock or not?" "…They both pull their trunks down to their knees…" "The afternoon is young. Many desire more experiences." "This wood can be a heartless place…" "The darkness protects them, gives them a freedom they never had before." "Romance requires love, not sex… Romance does not fit in with wholesale promiscuity…"
The book is a combination of factual reporting and fictional representation of life as it is REALLY lived among this group.
Blaze of Summer (1967)
Four short stories:
BLAZE OF SUMMER – A small-town teacher with a history of being blackmailed and having to run from town to town for being gay starts a relationship with a local farmhand with devastating consequences.
THREE IMMORAL FABLES – An interesting enough read, even if the stories go nowhere.
A CASUAL AFFAIR – Probably the best of the bunch, a theatre producer uses a boytoy to get investments for his latest play.
JOE’S OTHER HUSBAND – A couple argues in bed one night after one of them gets schooled in the world of S&M with a trick. High drama, as with most of the book. The partner complains that he doesn’t care if the guys screws around, he just doesn’t like it when he gets home tired. "I don’t ask for much, why can’t you just save a little for me?!?!?!"
Carnal Matters – 4 short stories (1965)
Everybody Loves Charlie – Charismatic Charlie Bright likes company, that’s why he shares his apartment with other gay friends, and that is how he came to meet Alex. After going off to serve in Guam he is now back, and out of the blue contacts Alex, and he wants Alex to meet someone special. But first he relates to Alex his exploits in Guam, and all about a handsome young sailor.
The Battle Between the Poets and the Painters – Alex is persuaded to arrange for his group of mostly gay poets to give a reading of their poems to students at a remote art school, students whose literary education is sadly lacking. Rebellion sets in with surprising results.
Irving – Alex is posted to Honolulu where his love life has been non-existent. On the advice of a respected friend on Christmas Eve he seeks out some trade. Having taken an hotel room for the night he is set up, all he needs is to find a man, he ends up with two, but is he courting danger?
Pictures You’d Be Proud to Show Your Mother – Jeffrey, a young scientist approaches courtship in the same analytical way he would any problem, and invariably goes home alone. But he is handsome and in possession of a perfectly honed body, something that has not be missed but a young photographer who persuades Jeff to pose for some shots for his magazine Torso. having succeeded in getting Alex to agree he then tells him he wants him to pose with an equally handsome young man, but warns Jeff to behave, his posing partner is a fireman, married with children, and he hates queers – at least that’s what the photographer tells Jeff.
These are well written and unpredictable stories, amusing, thought provoking, and with more than a touch of irony, and although now written 50 years or more ago they put much of today’s offerings in the shade.
Handsome Is … (1966)
The story concerns a young woman who sets out to find what her boyfriend Tony has been up to. She travels to New York and meets all sorts of shady characters from the gay underworld.
In part two we learn Tony has been a live-in hooker for Paul, a Rock Hudson type of movie star. From there things spill quickly into melodrama with murder, S & M whipping scenes and a world where young men are available to the wealthy playboys for the right price.
As usual in Goodman’s work there are elements of the men thinking they’re straight, playing gay for a laugh. The older men are all out for one thing and will stop at nothing to get it.
Happyland and Other Stories (1968)
Ink opens with five "exceedingly handsome young men who are each nude" and each is sitting on a black stool. They occupy a spotless room with floor, walls and ceiling in white but with no doors or windows. They postulate as to why and how they come to be there; but they seem to have little memory. Then some consider what they will do, and they each being young, naked and exceptionally well endowed in is not surprising they consider who desires to do what to whom; but will they learn the reason for being in the white room.
Two Immoral Fables follow:
1 The Knight. A knight losses his friend and lover in battle. He is desolate, but one morning he awakens to find a shy youth standing at his bed, maybe things are looking up.
2 The Princess. Bored, Sir Adalbert steals a costume from the Princess and goes out seeking some handsome young soldiers.
In Happyland we encounter a number of characters including a handsome muscular youth, an effeminate boy who likes dressing up, a hustler on the make, a middle-aged artist who becomes besotted with a boy of sixteen, a tease of a boy who works a pizza stand, and the general manager of Happyland who is being blackmailed by one of the former having been photographed during a long hot session with a session in bed with a young man. They variously come together and some enjoy new experiences opening their eyes to what really matters.
The Soft Spot Four Short Stories (1964)
I LOVE BOYS," the writer declares and with complete sincerity and candor he explores his own gay life and the gay world in which he lives. He offers no judgments on this life but only tries to say, "This is how I feel, this is how it happens, this is the way things are."
GAYLORD MERRIEWETHER III. The narrator would like to go to bed with this very good-looking sailor. But is the sailor gay? The narrator discovers the answer only after he meets another navy man, a ruthless, decadent trade-queen who stops at nothing to satisfy his rabid sexual desires.
SMILE! What is it like to be a physique photographer? Who are his models? What are his sexual desires? Here is a portrait, etched in acid of a man whose life is severely bounded by bars, police, pictures and boys.
THE RUG SALESMAN. What happens when a masturbation fantasy becomes real?
THE SPANISH BOYS. A gay tourist meets:
Benjamin, who looks and acts like an aristocrat, but is he?
The Boy with the Blue Eyes, who traps his quarry with his exquisite performance in bed.
The Chicken at the Beach. No more than fifteen, but he earns his living by slipping into the bath-house dressing room of any man who wants him.
QUOTES:
"My brain was thinking of ways to get still closer to him, to somehow get him away to any private place where I could test the sweetness of those pink, smiling lips.
"Then he comes over to me with that thing of his looking like a big hammer and says, ‘Turn over.’"
The Gay Psychedelic Sex Book: Collages and Limericks (1967)
A cute little book. Limericks are not my thing usually but these are dated and fun.
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