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His failure to achieve earlier the critical success the Brandstetter novels would bring him was due to his life-long insistence on writing openly and honestly about his experience as a gay ( pace, Joe) man. Between those early successes and the publication of Fadeout were years in the literary desert where he was reduced to writing pulp gay fiction for fly-by-night small presses under the name James Colton. The New Yorker and other good magazines had printed a few of my poems, but that was it so far as big time publishing went.” The poems he mentions were published in the early 1940s, when Hansen (born in 1923) was still a kid.
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As he said in his own introduction to the 2004 edition of Fadeout, he was forty-six when Harper & Row accepted the book for publication and “I’d been writing all my life. At the time of its publication, he was an accomplished literary artist who had been writing, unnoticed, for decades. And “groundbreaking”? In 1970, that may have been an understatement.įadeout, however, was not a novelty act, nor was Hansen a crude gay propagandist. Simply by reason of his existence, Brandstetter was a potential felon and candidate for the looney bin. A smart, masculine, competent, unapologetic homosexual and ace private investigator in an America where 49 of 50 states criminalized gay sex between consenting adults and the American Psychiatric Association deemed homosexuality a mental disorder. Brandstetter, you see, is a homosexual (the word his creator used in preference to “gay,” a word he despised).
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Brandstetter himself, rich, white and blessed with movie star good looks-a far cry from his hard luck noir predecessors like Philip Marlowe and Lew Archer-doesn’t seem, at first glance, to be much of a groundbreaker.īut the adjective is justified because Brandstetter is by nature what Marlowe and Archer were by temperament alone-an outsider and, in the context of the time, the ultimate outsider. Why groundbreaking? They were beautifully written and dexterously plotted, but that wasn’t the reason.
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Fadeout, originally published in 1970, introduced Dave Brandstetter, an insurance investigator based in Los Angeles, in the first in a series of twelve crime novels the Los Angeles Times would hail as “groundbreaking” in the 2004 obituary of its author, Joseph Hansen.