?Poetry makes nothing happen,? W.H. Auden famously announced, shortly after arriving in America in January 1939. Christopher Bram disagrees, and his new book, ?Eminent Outlaws,? which breezily combines literary criticism and social history, is subtitled ?The Gay Writers Who Changed America.? Bram sees this process starting in January 1948, when two novels, Gore Vidal?s ?The City and the Pillar? and Truman Capote?s ?Other Voices, Other Rooms,? were published within a week of each other. Alfred Kinsey?s ?Sexual Behavior in the Human Male? came out the same month, and when all three books were reviewed together in the Hudson Review, it was not under ?Recent Fiction? but in a column headed ?Recent Phenomena.?
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