The Taos Truth Game

Earl Ganz has taught writing at the University of Montana and the University of Utah and currently makes his home in Lake Charles, Louisiana.

"A HISTORICALLY INTRIGUING, fancifully packed debut by writing professor [Earl] Ganz imagines the largely forgotten life and work of gay Jewish novelist Myron Brinig, who landed among the gossipy, insular set of Taos, New Mexico's artists during the mid-1930's." - Publishers Weekly "The Taos Truth Game reminds us that Americans have historically romped through the surprisingly wide open recreational reserves of marriage, sexuality and friendship. [Earl] Ganz exposes the daily drama of life in Mabel Dodge Luhan's orbit, and offers a rare look at our queer heritage in the American West that goes beyond the usual footnote or erasure. By weaving this pastiche from a forgotten novelist's memoirs, Ganz delightfully resurrects the truth game and invites us to play a hand." - Karl Olson, PRIDE Inc., Montana's LGBT advocacy organization "Earl Ganz pulls off the impossible trick. He raises the famous dead and restores them not just to animated life, but to the full psychological and spiritual life of the living. The Taos Truth Game is a major literary achievement. How Ganz manages to do this is one of fiction writing's enduring and humbling mysteries. This book will have a wide and enthusiastic audience, starting with me." - Rick DeMarinis, author of Apocalypse"