Interview With an Editor of "The Gay Nineties: An Anthology of Contemporary Gay Fiction"

June 22, 1991 - The Gay Nineties: An Anthology of Contemporary Gay Fiction, edited by Phil Willkie and Greg Baysans. In 1983 the gay literary quarterly, the James White Review was founded by Grey Baysans, Paul Emond, and Phil Willkie. Emond left in 1985. Baysons resigned in 1991. It was transferred to the Lambda Literary Foundation in Washington, DC in 1998. Willkie was listed as publisher emeritus until it ceased publication in 2004. During Willkie’s era the quarterly developed national and international prestige, and James White’s name became far more widely known. Willkie reminisces, “I enjoyed the business side, started going to the nation’s book shows and doing an annual reading in New York from 1986 that had hundreds attending.”