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posted Saturday, September 23, 2023
My Body is Distant: A Memoir is an electrifying and vulnerable memoir that invites readers into an intimate conversation about our digital and physical selves, gender, and belonging. In My Body Is Distant, Paige Maylott writes about her life, both virtual and IRL, as she explores her authentic self and sexuality through dream-like virtual worlds. […]
posted Sunday, September 17, 2023
The Lookback Window tells the story of Dylan, who grew up in suburban New York, and lived through three years as a victim of sex trafficking at the hands of Vincent, a troubled young man who promised to marry Dylan when he turned eighteen. Years later—long after a police investigation that went nowhere, and after […]
posted Sunday, September 10, 2023
Red, White & Royal Blue is a big-hearted romantic comedy in which the First Son falls in love with the Prince of Wales after an incident of international proportions forces them to pretend to be best friends. When his mother became President, Alex Claremont-Diaz was promptly cast as the American equivalent of a young royal. […]
posted Tuesday, August 22, 2023
One Sunny Afternoon: A Memoir of Trauma and Healing reflects on past traumas, sexual abuse, online bullying, and harassment. This is a deeply personal memoir about facing life-long trauma head on, and bravely healing the scars that endure. It’s a searing testament to the authors extraordinary reckoning with her past and present, to find hope in […]
posted Wednesday, August 2, 2023
Maps and Legends: The Story of R.E.M. by John Hunter, is the most comprehensive biography of R.E.M. yet published. Maps and Legends covers not just the band’s entire career, from Radio Free Europe to Collapse Into Now, but also delves deeply into the childhoods of each of the band members. It tells the story of […]
posted Sunday, July 23, 2023
To Refrain From Embracing follows the trials facing a small family from the backdrop of an impoverished steel-working community in working-class Hamilton, Ontario, in the 1970’s, After an attempted suicide leaves veteran Ted checked into a psychiatric hospital, his wife struggles with family finances and growing concern for the well-being of their young son while also […]
posted Saturday, July 22, 2023
The 2022 Governor General’s Awards nominated novel, Urchin, seamlessly blends fantasy with history, and fiction with fact. Within this Young Adult coming-of-age tale, Kate Story has succeeded in the enviable task of writing a book that is impossible to define—impossible because it is bold and visionary, and breaks as many rules as it follows. The […]
posted Wednesday, July 19, 2023
City of Night was John Rechy’s explosive first novel released in 1963, and it marked a radical departure from all other novels of its kind, giving voice to a subculture that had never before been revealed with such acuity. It earned comparisons to Genet and Kerouac, even as Rechy was personally attacked by scandalized reviewers. […]
posted Tuesday, July 11, 2023
Johnny Thunders: In Cold Blood is the definitive portrait of the condemned man of rock’n’roll, from the baptism of fire and tragedy that was The New York Dolls, through the junkie punk years of The Heartbreakers, to his sudden and mysterious death in 1991. It is an unflinching account of a unique guitarist whose drug problems often […]
posted Thursday, July 6, 2023
This Bird Has Flown explores love, passion, and the ghosts of our past, and offers a glimpse inside the music business that could only come from beloved songwriter Susanna Hoffs, from The Bangles. Jane Start is thirty-three, broke, and recently single. Ten years prior, she had a hit song, written by world-famous superstar Jonesy, but […]
