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ART AND SEX IN GREENWICH VILLAGE Gay Literary Life After Stonewall. By Felice Picano. Illustrated. 265 pp. Carroll & Graf Publishers. Paper, $15.95. Reading Felice Picano's new memoir, ''Art and [...]

THE LAST NOVEL By David Markson. 190 pp. Shoemaker & Hoard. Paper, $15. Just when one had started mourning the demise of avant-garde and postmodern fiction, buried under the avalanche [...]

HORNITO My Lie Life. By Mike Albo. 246 pp. New York: HarperCollins Publishers. $23. IS the memoir fad over? Or is it just spawning a postmodern spinoff? We may be [...]

JESUS SAVES By Darcey Steinke. 212 pp. New York: Atlantic Monthly Press. $23. With her new novel, ''Jesus Saves,'' Darcey Steinke seems to have found her turf: the backwoods of [...]

COMPLICITY By Iain Banks. 299 pp. New York: Nan A. Talese/Doubleday. $22.50. IAIN BANKS'S new novel, 'Complicity,' fits right into the Anglo-American tradition of the serial-killer genre, filled with enough [...]

BLACK HORNET By James Sallis. 150 pp. New York: Carroll & Graf Publishers. $18.95. WHAT Chester Himes did for Harlem when he began publishing in the late 1950's with Masque [...]

SELF-RELIANCE By Michael Brownstein. 305 pp. Minneapolis: Coffee House Press. Paper, $12.95. THE 1970's are back in style: the bell-bottoms, the marijuana leaf, the platform shoes, the peace sign, the [...]

TRY By Dennis Cooper. 199 pp. New York: Grove Press. $20. IN another country or another era, Dennis Cooper's books would be circulating in secret, explosive sam izdat editions that [...]

MARTIN AND JOHN By Dale Peck. 228 pp. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux. $21. IN his daring debut novel, Dale Peck has written an unflinchingly honest, dark coming-of-age story [...]

SAILOR'S HOLIDAY The Wild Life of Sailor and Lula. By Barry Gifford. 344 pp. New York: Random House. $20. Barry Gifford's new collection of stories, 'Sailor's Holiday,' is a kind [...]

LEE AND ELAINE By Ann Rower. 247 pp. New York: Serpent's Tail. Paper, $14. THE long shadow of New York's postwar bohemian years still haunts American writers and artists -- [...]