Crashing Cathedrals: Edmund White by the Book

Tom Cardamone is the editor of "Crashing Cathedrals: Edmund White by the Book" and "The Lost Library: Gay Fiction Rediscovered". He is the author of the Lambda Literary Award-winning speculative novella "Green Thumb" as well as the erotic fantasy "The Lurid Sea" and other works of fiction, including two short story collections.

Colm Toibin is an Irish novelist, short story writer, essayist, journalist, critic, playwright, and poet. His first novel, The South, was published in 1990. The Blackwater Lightship was shortlisted for the Booker Prize.

Sarah Schulman is the author of more than twenty works of fiction (including The Cosmopolitans, Rat Bohemia, and Maggie Terry), nonfiction (including Stagestruck, Conflict is Not Abuse, and The Gentrification of the Mind), and theater (Carson McCullers, Manic Flight Reaction, and more), and the producer and screenwriter of several feature films (The Owls, Mommy Is Coming, and United in Anger, among others). Her writing has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, Slate, and many other outlets. She is an Endowed Chair in Creative Writing at Northwestern, a Fellow at the New York Institute of Humanities, the recipient of multiple fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, Yaddo, and the New York Foundation for the Arts, and was presented in 2018 with Publishing Triangle's Bill Whitehead Award. She is also the cofounder of the MIX New York LGBT Experimental Film and Video Festival, and the co-director of the groundbreaking ACT UP Oral History Project. A lifelong New Yorker, she is a longtime activist for queer rights and female empowerment, and serves on the advisory board of Jewish Voice for Peace.