Will Aitken

Will Aitken is an American-Canadian novelist, journalist and film critic. Originally from Terre Haute, Indiana, he has been based in Montreal, Quebec since moving to that city to attend McGill University in 1972.

In Montreal, he was a cofounder of the city's first LGBT bookstore, Librairie L'Androgyne, in 1973. including the CBC, the BBC, NPR, The Globe and Mail, Maclean's, The Paris Review, Christopher Street and the National Post.

He published his first novel, Terre Haute, in 1989. He has since published three other novels.

Works

Novels Terre Haute. 1989. A Visit Home. 1993. Realia. 2000. The Swells. 2021.

Non-fiction Death in Venice: A Queer Film Classic. 2011. Antigone Undone: Juliette Binoche, Anne Carson, Ivo Van Hove, and the Art of Resistance. 2018.

Anthologies Madder Love: Queer Men and the Precincts of Surrealism (ed. Peter Dubé). 2008.