A Conversation with Gay Author Elliott Mackle Back
Listen is as Robert Jaquay, The Gay Book Guy chats with Elliott Mackle author of "Hot Off The Presses". In this book, Elliott Mackle "offers readers a glimpse back to a remarkable era and events in the life of the Gay South".
Eliott is also the author of the Lambda Award finalist "It Takes Two", he has written for Travel and Leisure, Food and Wine, the LA Times and public television. He lives in Atlanta.
Elliott Mackle's new novel, Hot Off the Presses (Lethe Press), is based in part on his experience covering the 1996 Olympic
Games for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Then an AJC staff writer, he served as the newspaper's dining critic for a decade, also reporting on military affairs, travel and the national restaurant scene. His first novel, It Takes Two, was a finalist for a Lambda Literary Award. He has written for Travel & Leisure, Food & Wine, the Los Angeles Times, Florida Historical Quarterly, Atlanta and Charleston magazines and was a longtime columnist at Creative Loafing, the southeast's leading alternative newsweekly. Mackle wrote and produced segments for Nathalie Dupree's popular television series, New Southern Cooking, and authored a drama about gay bashing for Georgia Public Television. Along the way, he managed a horse farm, commanded a squadron of Air Force cooks, served as a child nutrition advocate for the State of Georgia, volunteered at an AIDS shelter, was founding co-chair of Emory University's GLBT alumni association and taught critical and editorial writing at Georgia State University.
About Robert Jaquay "The Gay Book Guy"
Robert Jaquay is a retired Public Library Director who moved to the Tampa Bay area two and a half years ago from the cold Northeast. As well as working in the world of books for over 38 years and being an avid reader, he has served on the American 
Library Association’s GLBT Stonewall Book Awards Committee, written several book review columns, and hosted a Pubic Access Television program called “Getting to Know You”, which focused on the Arts in New York’s Capital Region. Besides books, he is a lover of Theatre, Film, Art and Music (being a self-professed Opera Queen), and is excited about sharing his views on all of the above.
