Diving Deeper
Edited by Don Bapst
From California to Europe, from the heart of the American
city to the outskirts of the French countryside, each writer
in this issue of Swell has taken a big risk. Whether bearing it
all on a gay beach in the Midwest, redefining gay marriage
...and divorce...in Denmark, delving into a very private side of public sex in San Francisco, or zooming in on a first crush in smalltown America, circa 1946, each of the following texts goes, in its own unique way, out on a limb. From defying the paternal paradigm to distilling pop culture into a loving mix, and from finding one's self in the empty house of a stranger to spilling the beans to the boyfriend of that indifferent trick, these writers have chosen their battles and are sticking to them.
by Rick Anton
by Matt Bartosik
by Allen Conkle
by Henri Delpeux
translated by Don Bapst
by Eric Diekhans
by Geoff Jackson
by Emil Keliane
by Stephen B. Starr