Free (Kindle DRM-free) Lost Library [Award-Win LGBT Literature Appreciation Essays]

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The Lost Library: Gay Fiction Rediscovered edited by Lambda Literary Award-winning author Tom Cardamone (ISFDB, Wikipedia) is a themed literature appreciation collection of essays and reminisces by assorted authors about significant gay fiction works of the past (including mainstream-published litfic novels with LGBT themes as well as dedicated genre specialty releases, and international writers in translation), many now out of print, which impacted and influenced them and their own works in turn, free courtesy of LGBT specialty publisher Lethe Press (Wikipedia).

This won a San Francisco Book Festival Award, according to its Wikipedia entry, where you can also see a list of all the original authors and their works mentioned as well as the contributing authors, many of whom have Wikipedia write-ups of their own.

Currently free (and DRM-free) @ Amazon (available to Canadians & in the UK and pretty much everywhere else that Amazon sells worldwide, as this is being done via their KDP Select exclusive-or-else program)

And this has been the selected 3rd (non-repeat) free ebook thread of the day.

Because it's always fascinating to learn about works in the past, sometimes forgotten, which ended up influencing works of the present and future, and I'm a sucker for these kinds of behind-the-scenes subgenre mini-history things, so

Enjoy!

Description
The Lost Library: Gay Fiction Rediscovered, edited by Tom Cardamone, includes appreciations by 28 contemporary writers of significant gay novels and short story collections now out of print. The Lost Library includes an essay on reprints of gay literature by Philip Clark. It features a cover illustration by Mel Odom. The Lost Library won the San Francisco Book Festival's gay category for best book of the Spring season.