Second printing Display next to Anne Rice, Dennis Cooper, and Pat Califia Drummer Editor Emeritus, Jack Fritscher, says Bay Area Reporter, is "the cult author who invented the leather prose style and the butchest, funniest, best male magazines". Legendary Bookstore Owner, Richard La Bonte/ A Different Light: "Fritscher is blessed with wit, erotic ingenuity, poetic intelligence, and rough-and-tumble sex scenes". We the People: "Fritscher does for writing what his lover Mapplethorpe did for photography: happily confuse the issues by making sex intelligent and therefore all the sexier". The Advocate: "Jack Fritscher writes wonderful books " Fritscher is absolutely epicentric to gay literature. Entertainment for readers who love bedtime stories about soldiers, young men at summer camp, fathers and sons, rough trade, cowboys, swimmers, wrestlers, and muscleguys who prefer men with ordinary bodies for sex, plus some very sexy X-Files type science fiction