Matthew Stadler

Allan Stein is a 1999 novel by Matthew Stadler. Its epigraph is a quotation from writer Gertrude Stein: "What is the use of being a boy if you grow up to become a man, what is the use?" The novel won the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Men's Fiction and the Richard and Hilda Rosenthal Foundation Award from the American …

Landscape: Memory is a 1990 novel by American author Matthew Stadler, the author's first novel. Set in San Francisco after the 1906 earthquake and in 1914-1916, the novel traces the youthful romance between American narrator Max and a Persian-British boy, Duncan. The book is unusual in that the story is told both …

The Dissolution of Nicholas Dee is a 1993 American novel by Matthew Stadler. The book is a striking example of postmodern narrative technique, in which different genres and styles of expression are mixed together.

The Sex Offender is a 1994 novel by Matthew Stadler. The book is strongly influenced by the theory of Michel Foucault on the links between state control of sex, health, and criminal behavior. The Sex Offender chronicles the rehabilitation of a man who has had sex with a 12-year-old boy. He undergoes perverse forms of …