Biography
FLANNERY: A LIFE OF FLANNERY O’CONNOR
“O'Connor lives and breathes--and spits fire--in Brad Gooch's portrait.”
–Vanity Fair
CITY POET: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF FRANK O’HARA
“A necessary chronicle of a fascinating, often overlooked, key character in modern American letters.”
–Los Angeles Times
Novel
SCARY KISSES
"No one else has written a book this literate and witty about the modeling world."
–Bret Easton Ellis
ZOMBIE00
"Truly great. . . .a subtle and brilliantly odd book, the best of Gooch's career." (Bookforum)
THE GOLDEN AGE OF PROMISCUITY
"Gooch's detailed descriptions and provocative observations make The Golden Age of Promiscuity the next best thing to taking a time-machine trip to grovel in the glorious '70s gutter. " -- San Francisco Chronicle
Non-Fiction
GODTALK
"On so hot a subject as religion in America, Brad Gooch is as serenely cool as Tocqueville was on an equally hot subject, democracy in America; and as irresistibly readable." - Gore Vidal
FINDING THE BOYFRIEND WITHIN
"A must-read for all men - gay or straight - and the women who love them." - Candace Bushnell, author of Sex and the City
DATING THE GREEK GODS
Unique in its approach and totally accesible in its realization, Dating the Greek Gods is an enlightened and literary self-help book that encourages readers to turn to their own inner oracle.
Short Stories
JAILBAIT and other stories
"Brad Gooch's stories offer gray grainy photographs of urban life with a roughness and directness unequalled in contemporary fiction. Brilliant." --Donald Barthelme
Poetry
THE DAILY NEWS
Brad Gooch's first book: nineteen poems. Smalltown adolescense, disco sex, S&M performance poems. And love poems.
