Edmund White

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Michael Silverblatt

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Here's a literary historical enigma: Did Stephen Crane attempt to write a gay companion piece to his Maggie: A Girl of the Streets? Literary rumor says he tried. At any rate, now Edmund White has written it for him. It's Hotel de Dream: A New York Novel (Ecco) and the "underground" history of classic American fiction.

Read an excerpt from Hotel de Dream.

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Edmund White: American novelist

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