Review Excerpt:

How does a straight grandmother end up writing a gay male love story? Not intentionally, in the case of Brenda Webster, a 69-year-old writer from Berkeley, Calif. Prior to writing The Beheading Game, Webster's biggest departure from non-fiction writing was a "basically autobiographical" novel, she says. In addition to that novel, Webster has also written two critical studies of poetry, a memoir and edited the journals of her mother, abstract expressionist painter Ethel Schwabacher.