The Book of Rude and Other Outrages: A Queer Self-Portrait

The life of Stephan Sure, born John Gregory Suhor, began serenely and ended violently in New Orleans. He was both participant and voyeur in the city's middle class, upper class, and gay cultures, yet never found a true home in any of them, nor during his years in Florida, the Midwest, or his sporadic hitchhikes to nowhere. Throughout, Sure kept with him three notebooks comprising The Book of Rude: short lines ranging from insults and puns to social commentaries and cries for help. Born from these rude witticisms is this collection of poetry and short stories that in total represent the far-ranging experiences of this insightful and complicated man. His father, Charles Suhor, gathered his writings after Sure's death for this unique volume.

Author: Stephan Sure
Publisher: NewSouth Books
Published: 09/01/2007
Pages: 224
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.74lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.51d
ISBN: 9780978531195

About the Author
Sure, Stephan: - Stephan Sure, born John Gregory Suhor, was a writer and poet living in New Orleans before his death.Suhor, Charles: - Charles Suhor is Stephan Sure's father. A native of New Orleans, he was a high school English teacher and supervisor in the public schools. Subsequently, he moved to Urbana, Illinois, where he was Deputy Executive Director of the National Council of Teacher of English (NCTE), working extensively as an anti-censorship activist. He had a parallel career as a writer and jazz musician, publishing numerous articles and poems and playing drums with Al Hirt, Pete Fountain, Buddy Prima, and others. Among his books are the Scholastic Composition Series (Scholastic), Teaching Values in the Literature Classroom: A Debate in Print (with Bernard Suhor, NCTE), Dimensions of Thinking (with Robert Marzano, et al., Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development), the award-winning Jazz in New Orleans: The Postwar Years Through 1970 (Scarecrow Press/ Rutgers Institute of Jazz Studies), and Creativity and Chaos: Reflections on a Decade of Progressive Change in Public Schools, 1967-1977 (NewSouth Books). He retired in 1997 to Montgomery, Alabama, where he is a freelance writer, speaker, and percussionist and a member of Parents, Families, and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG). With the encouragement of his ten surviving children, he gathered and edited Stephan's writings for this volume.