You Are a Global Citizen – travel book and guided journal from LGBTQIA+ digital nomad, Damon Dominique

posted Tuesday, January 17, 2023

by: Bryen Dunn in Books

You Are a Global Citizen is the new travel book and guided journal from LGBTQIA+ digital nomad, Damon Dominique, who became a leader of the modern-day social media travel scene after documenting 500+ travel videos fluently in 5+ languages, in 50+ countries. Star of countless popular YouTube travel vlogs (with 22.4 M+ Views) and documentaries, Damon shares his […]

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The Words That Remain – queer Brazilian novel about one man’s quest for learning, and a long lost love

posted Tuesday, January 17, 2023

by: Bryen Dunn in Books

The Words That Remain explores the universal power of the written word and language, and how they affect all our relationships. A letter has beckoned to Raimundo since he received it over fifty years ago from his youthful passion, handsome Cícero. But having grown up in an impoverished area of Brazil where the demands of manual […]

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Hit Girls: Women of Punk in the USA, 1975-1983

posted Tuesday, January 17, 2023

by: Bryen Dunn in Books

Think punk was only a boys club? Read about the women who were the punk revolution! Women have been kicking against the pricks of music patriarchy since Sister Rosetta Tharpe first played the guitar riffs that built rock-n-roll. The explosion of punk sent shockwaves of revolution to every girl who dreamed of being on stage. […]

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The Shards – new novel from Bret Easton Ellis recounts his life in 1980s LA through tales of fact and fiction

posted Tuesday, January 17, 2023

by: Bryen Dunn in Books

The Shards is the new novel from Bret Easton Ellis (Less Than Zero, Psycho) that tells a story about the end of innocence, and the perilous passage from adolescence into adulthood, set in a vibrantly fictionalized Los Angeles in 1981 as a serial killer begins targeting teenagers throughout the city. Seventeen-year-old Bret is a senior at […]

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Flesh and Blood – 1950s family drama plays like a unconventional Greek tragedy of unfulfilled dreams

posted Wednesday, December 21, 2022

by: Bryen Dunn in Books

In Flesh and Blood, Michael Cunningham takes us on a masterful journey through four generations of the Stassos family as he examines the dynamics of a family struggling to “come of age” in the 20th century. In 1950, Constantine Stassos, a Greek immigrant laborer, marries Mary Cuccio, an Italian-American girl, and together they produce three […]

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Christopher DiRaddo’s, The Geography of Pluto – transformative Quebecois queer fiction at its best

posted Sunday, December 18, 2022

by: Jeffrey Round in Author by Author, Books

Originally published by Cormorant Books in 2014, Christopher DiRaddo’s The Geography of Pluto is an acclaimed  slice-of-gay-life novel set in 1990s Montreal. It has now been republished by Véhicule Press, and there is plenty to recommend about it. Will Ambrose is a geography teacher who comes out in his early twenties with the support of […]

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Douglas Coupland’s “Player One” tells the interactive stories of five individuals over five hours

posted Wednesday, December 14, 2022

by: Bryen Dunn in Books

Five disparate people are trapped inside an airport cocktail lounge during a global disaster: Karen, a single mother waiting for her online date; Rick, a down-on-his-luck bartender; Luke, a pastor on the run; Rachel, a cool Hitchcockian blonde incapable of true human contact; and finally a mysterious voice known as Player One. Slowly, over the […]

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A Book of Days – Patti Smith’s new book was inspired by a year of her Instagram posts

posted Monday, December 12, 2022

by: Bryen Dunn in Books

A Book of Days features more than 365 images and reflections that chart Patti Smith’s singular aesthetic—inspired by her wildly popular Instagram. In 2018, without any plan or agenda for what might happen next, Patti Smith posted her first Instagram photo: her hand with the simple message “Hello Everybody!” Known for shooting with her beloved […]

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The Middle Between Us – Four tormented souls. Two impossible love stories. One inescapable fate.

posted Saturday, December 10, 2022

by: Bryen Dunn in Books

The Middle Between Us delicately unfurls the love stories of two sets of couples, detached by time but brought together by fate. Where one is set in the artisanal streets of a 21st-century city life, the other depicts the breathtaking wild mountains of eastern Europe as it’s set ablaze by the religious zealotry of World […]

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Fraternity – queer paranormal story about a secret brotherhood at an all boys boarding school

posted Thursday, November 24, 2022

by: Bryen Dunn in Books

Fraternity is a queer, dark academia YA story about a mysterious boarding school, a brotherhood that must stay in the shadows, and an ancient evil that could tear it all apart. In the fall of 1991, Zooey Orson transfers to the Blackfriars School for Boys hoping for a fresh start following a scandal at his […]

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