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Ulysses Grant Dietz

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Born

in Syracuse

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Gay and Lesbian, Romance, Paranormal

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Anne Rice, Charles Dickens, Anthony Trollope, Nathaniel Hawthorne

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Ulysses Grant Dietz grew up in Syracuse, New York, where his Leave it to Beaver life was enlivened by his fascination with vampires, from Bela Lugosi to Barnabas Collins. He studied French at Yale, and was trained to be a museum curator at the University of Delaware. A curator since 1980, Ulysses has never stopped writing fiction for the sheer pleasure of it. He created the character of Desmond Beckwith in 1988 as his personal response to Anne Rice’s landmark novels. Alyson Books released his first novel, Desmond, in 1998. Vampire in Suburbia is his second novel.

Ulysses lives in suburban New Jersey with his husband of over 40 years and their two almost-grown children.

By the way, the name Ulysses was not his parents’ idea of a joke: he is a ...more

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	Desmond (Desmond #1) 3.60 avg rating — 132 ratings — published 1998 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Vampire in Suburbia (Desmond #2) 3.92 avg rating — 37 ratings — published 2012 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Cliffhanger 4.38 avg rating — 24 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Growing Up Grant: A Gay Life in the Shadow of Ulysses S. Grant 4.33 avg rating — 21 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Paul J. Stankard: Homage to Nature by Ulysses Grant Dietz (Goodreads Author), John Bigelow Taylor (Photographer) 4.50 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 1996 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Great Pots: Contemporary Ceramics from Function to Fantasy by Ulysses Grant Dietz (Goodreads Author), Mary Sue Sweeney Price (Foreword by), Garth Clark (Introduction) 4.33 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2003 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dream House: The White House As an American Home by Ulysses Grant Dietz (Goodreads Author), Sam Watters it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2009 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Ballantine House and the Decorative Arts Galleries at the Newark Museum liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1994	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	The Newark Museum Collection of American Art Pottery by Ulysses Grant Dietz (Goodreads Author), Newark Museum 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1984 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Ulysses Dietz said: " The Deadliest Fall
By Charlie Cochrane
Riptide Press, 2023
Five stars

What I love about Charlie Cochrane’s books is that they’re so very British. I mean, she is British, but part of her charm for this American reader is that she embraces the individualit The Deadliest Fall
By Charlie Cochrane
Riptide Press, 2023
Five stars

What I love about Charlie Cochrane’s books is that they’re so very British. I mean, she is British, but part of her charm for this American reader is that she embraces the individuality of her small-town characters. In this book, that Britishness is emphatic, because it’s set in 1947, just two years after the end of World War II.

Leslie Cadmore, walking his naughty labrador Max in the park near his mother’s house, happens to run across two young women, one of whom is a childhood friend he hasn’t seen in years. His chance meeting of Marianne Sibley, who is then invited by his mother to tea, opens a veritable Pandora’s Box of memories, questions, and regrets.

At the center of this is Leslie’s five-year rift with Marianne’s twin brother Patrick, another childhood friend who had been his lover for years before a stupid argument broke them up. That argument was triggered by the sudden death of a mutual acquaintance of theirs, a death that was ruled an accident. Leslie is not so sure, and his tea with Marianne sets off a chain of little events that lead to conversations that lead to something bigger, deeper, and darker than any of them ever imagined.

The restrained, stiff-upper-lip quality of Cochrane’s writing for this book is spot-on. This is not the England of today, but a world hardly remembered now, as people were putting their lives back together after the war dislocation and destruction. The world was still full of Victorians and Edwardians, and their influence held sway in English life.

This is the tipping point between modern Great Britain and the old Great Britain, when everyone was polite and circumspect—and love between two men was still something that could send you to prison. Cochrane captures that nostalgic primness, in language and behavior, while also depicting the growing cracks in the social strictures of the past that would eventually shatter and fall away.

Leslie reconnects with Patrick in order to discuss difficult questions about the past, and finds in his old friend the same regrets that he himself feels. Together, they start a quiet dance of inquiry and honesty, asking questions and having conversations previously suppressed by circumstance.

It’s a beautiful story, beautifully rendered by an author who sees the past in living color. ...more "

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“Mr. Beckwith, it is not possible for me to believe that God sees any true love as evil, no matter what the words of man might tell you. Hate is the only truly evil thing in the world. Second only to it false love, followed by its twin, hypocrisy. If your love was true, then it was blessed.”
― Ulysses Grant Dietz, Desmond

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“it is not possible for me to believe that God sees any true love as evil, no matter what the words of man might tell you. Hate is the only truly evil thing in the world. Second only to it false love, followed by its twin, hypocrisy. If your love was true, then it was blessed.”
― Ulysses Grant Dietz, Desmond

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