James Hagerty: 6 books

The High Priesthood of Being gay is a labor of love over 12 years in the writing. It included numerous, often exhausting, edits for accuracy and truthfulness. Its a bold attempt to separate out Being and Nothingness in what it is to be gay. Both sacred and profane, emotional and intellectual, it will...

Norman, nicknamed El Demente, "the crazy one," hitchhikes and hops freight across the southern United States in search of Ma-to him, MaBelle-and his ragtag family. Afflicted with syphilis and a head wound from pimping at a Mexican whorehouse across the Texas border, he struggles in both a mindless and...

Rattling skeletons or real blood-and-flesh beings...the reader is asked to choose, form a judgment. Eight stories of misfits-four male, four female-driven to the edge by loneliness. The stories court the horror genre, but are much more. They are existential in that the characters ask, like Hamlet, "To...

"Rapture" follows the evolution of a gay man, Jerrod O'Rourke, from early youth to middle age. In the first chapter he witnesses the murder of an aged black umpire at a softball game. The sudden, guilt-ridden emptying of the ball diamond has the feel to this impressionable boy of the Biblical Rapture....

“A lucid and meticulously reported book by one of the Wall Street Journal’s ace reporters” (George Anders, Forbes contributor and author of The Rare Find). In 1938, the administration of Franklin Delano Roosevelt created a small agency called Fannie Mae. Intended to make home loans more...

As religiously grounded moral arguments have become ever more influential factors in the national debate-particularly reinforced by recent presidential elections and the creation of the faith-based initiative office in the White House-journalists' ignorance about theological convictions has often...