Works by
Vestal McIntyre
(Writer)

• You Are Not the One (2005) -- Winner 2005 Lambda Literary Gay Men's Debut Fiction Awards
  In this debut collection of eight compulsively readable stories, Vestal McIntyre combines honesty and compassion with hilarious dialogue-bringing together the comic milieu of David Sedaris with the spot-on perceptions of Adam Haslett's You Are Not a Stranger Here. With "ONJ.com," a young woman in advertising decides she wants a gay man in her life, almost as if she were shopping for a poodle. Unluckily, the gay man she finds, a good-looking and fast-talking freelancer, isn't as pleasant and "fun" as she had hoped. In the loopy "Dunford," a lonely, aging architect with a suppressed fascination for female escorts decides impulsively to take the opportunity of his wife's absence to set up a date. Sadly for Dunford, he realizes too late that his escort doesn't share his penchant for masturbation in car washes. Quieter notes are sounded in "Foray" about a bookish teenaged recluse discovering an unexpected emotional connection to his family after his mother asks him to read Moby Dick to his young, mentally retarded cousin. And "Nightwalking" centers on a woman sleepwalker whose mother's death frames the occasion for a rocky family reunion. You Are Not the One marks the auspicious arrival of an exciting new talent.

See also:

• Open City #11: Octo Ate Them All (2000) by Melissa Pritchard, Michael Taussig, Vestal McIntyre

• TIN HOUSE Magazine #22 (Vol. 6 No. 2) by Rob Spillman, ed.
  Works by Daniel Alarcon, Eliot Wilson, Emily Raboteau, Frances Hwang, Holiday Reinhorn, James Salter, Jillian Weise, Maggie Robbins, Nami Mun, Rob Dennis, Scott Snyder, and Vestal McIntyre