Isaac – story about modern day queer youth navigating the digital age of sex, excess, and the quest for love

posted Sunday, March 8, 2026

by: Bryen Dunn in Books

Isaac is set in London across a single, life-altering summer. It’s a queer story for our digital age, offering new perspectives on desire and intimacy, adolescent obsession, and dangerous first love. Isaac is an inexperienced gay youth whose first sexual encounter via a dating app is disappointing, yet thrillingly addictive. He spends his final months before […]

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The Spirit of Ani (Difranco): Reflections on Spirituality, Feminism, Music, and Freedom

posted Tuesday, March 3, 2026

by: Bryen Dunn in Books

THE SPIRIT OF ANI is a captivating journey of intimate reflections with Ani DiFranco, a pathbreaking, highly original artist of our time. In this powerful collaborative work, the legendary folk-rock star and feminist icon is in conversation with author, artist, and cultural anthropologist Lauren Coyle Rosen. In these exchanges, Ani is remarkably open about her creativity, […]

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AlphaPussy: How I Survived the Valley and Learned to Love My Boobs

posted Tuesday, March 3, 2026

by: Bryen Dunn in Books

AlphaPussy is a collection of true stories that explore themes of experience, survival, and the art of figuring it out as you go. From a wayward California girl growing up in the heart of the porn-born San Fernando Valley, Gina Gershon found herself on a journey that has been anything but traditional. Along the way, she had […]

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Disco Witches of Fire Island – gay fantasy romance about finding magic, love, and family in the face of tragedy

posted Tuesday, February 17, 2026

by: Bryen Dunn in Books

Disco Witches of Fire Island begins in 1989, when Joe Agabian and his best friend Ronnie set out to spend their first summer working in the hedonistic gay paradise of Fire Island Pines. Joe is desperate to let loose and finally move beyond the heartbreak of having lost his boyfriend to the HIV/AIDS epidemic. The […]

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The Royal We – Faith No More’s Roddy Bottum shares his life story as a queer rock musician growing up in 1980s San Francisco

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026

by: Bryen Dunn in Books

THE ROYAL WE is a poetic survey of a time set in a magical city that once was and is no more. It is a memoir written by Roddy Bottum, a musician and artist, that documents his coming of age and out of the closet in 1980s San Francisco, a charged era of bicycle messengers, […]

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Queen Ester – John Irving’s latest novel revisits his classic “The Cider House Rules”

posted Monday, February 2, 2026

by: Bryen Dunn in Books

Queen Ester sees John Irving return to the world of his bestselling classic novel and Academy Award winner The Cider House Rules, revisiting the orphanage in St. Cloud’s, Maine, where Dr. Larch takes in Esther, a three-year-old Jew whose life is shaped by anti-Semitism. Esther Nacht is born in Vienna in 1905. Her father dies on […]

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Insomnia – the inside story of Robbie Robertson and Martin Scorsese’s lifelong creative collaborations

posted Sunday, February 1, 2026

by: Bryen Dunn in Books

Insomnia is the story of rock legend Robbie Robertson‘s wild ride with Martin Scorsese—as friends, adventure-seekers, and boundary-pushing collaborators. For four decades, Robbie Robertson produced music for Martin Scorsese’s films, a relationship that began when Robertson convinced Scorsese to direct The Last Waltz, the iconic film of the Band’s farewell performance at the Winterland Ballroom on […]

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Three Parties – a queer Palestinian’s planned coming out party gets derailed by the woes of family and friends

posted Tuesday, January 27, 2026

by: Bryen Dunn in Books

Three Parties tells the story of a queer Palestinian refugee who plans to come out at his elaborate birthday dinner party, in this tragicomic modern reimagining of Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway. Firas Dareer wakes up on his twenty-third birthday with a sense of purpose: today he’ll jump from a Stage 3 to a Stage 6 […]

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The Music Lover’s Guide to North America: Museums, Historical Sites, and Other Points of Interest

posted Friday, January 16, 2026

by: Bryen Dunn in Books

The Music Lover’s Guide to North America is the first-ever guidebook to North American music museums and other sites, from the iconic to the obscure. Wherever you are, you don’t have to go far in North America to find world-class music museums and historical sites. Whether in major cities like Nashville, Detroit, and New Orleans […]

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The Cars: Let the Stories Be Told – the magical stories behind one of the 1980’s top new-wave musical acts

posted Friday, November 21, 2025

by: Bryen Dunn in Books

New York Times bestselling author Bill Janovitz delivers the definitive story of The Cars, one of the most popular, beloved, and influential bands to emerge from New Wave—with a foreword by Cars keyboardist Greg Hawkes. The Cars formed in the late 1970s as an alliance of five journeymen musicians with roots in Maryland, Ohio, New York, […]

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