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posted Sunday, August 28, 2022
Inspired by George Orwell’s Down and Out in Paris and London, A Waiter in Paris is a brilliant portrait of the underbelly of contemporary Paris through the eyes of a young waiter scraping out a living in the City of Light. A waiter’s job is to deceive you. They want you to believe in a luxurious calm because […]
posted Saturday, August 27, 2022
George Michael was an extravagantly gifted, openhearted soul singer whose work was both pained and smolderingly erotic. He was a songwriter of true craft and substance, and his music swept the world, starting in the mid-1980s. His fabricated image—that of a hypermacho sex god—loomed large in the pop culture of his day. It also hid—for […]
posted Tuesday, July 26, 2022
Groupies shines a bright light on the grungy yet glittery world of 1970s rock ‘n’ roll and the women – the groupies – who unapologetically love too much in a world that doesn’t love them back. The debut novel from Sarah Priscus is perfect for fans of Daisy Jones & The Six, Mary Jane, and […]
posted Tuesday, July 19, 2022
First Time For Everything tells the story of one man’s hilarious, touching, and sometimes awkward journey as he tries to find himself. It’s an honest and heartfelt debut about a down-on-his-luck gay man working out how he fits into the world, making up for lost time and opening himself up to life’s possibilities. Danny Scudd […]
posted Saturday, July 16, 2022
When eighteen-year-old Gerald Hannon left his small mining community in Marathon, Ontario to attend the University of Toronto, he never would have predicted he’d become part of LGBTQ2S+ history. Almost sixty years later, he reflects on the major moments in his career as a journalist and LGBTQ2S+ activist. From the charges of transmitting immoral, indecent, […]
posted Tuesday, July 5, 2022
Keith Garebian’s tenth poetry collection, Finger to Finger, may come as a surprise even to those of us who are used to his soul-baring, as evidenced in his finely wrought collection about ancestry, Poetry Is Blood, or his frank reflections on surviving cancer, Scan. I say surprise, because this may be his strongest and most […]
posted Monday, July 4, 2022
Querelle of Robertval tells the story of a millworkers’ strike in the northern lumber town of Roberval, Quebec. As the strike drags on, tensions start to escalate between the workers. When a lockout renews their solidarity, they rally around the mysterious and magnetic influence of Querelle, a dashing newcomer from Montreal. Strapping and unabashed, likeable […]
posted Tuesday, June 21, 2022
Despite everything you know and value, Carlos Allende’s new novel COFFEE, SHOPPING, MURDER, LOVE (Red Hen Press; June 21, 2022) will make you root for its bitter, spectacularly superficial, and highly immoral protagonists. The story is both an experiment in empathy and a savagely camp, relentlessly unsentimental, incisive account of our worst impulses and our […]
posted Tuesday, June 21, 2022
In Boys and Oil: Growing Up Gay in a Fractured Land, by Taylor Brorby, brings new focus to an ignored region of the country whose rich resources—its land and its people—are too often unappreciated. In his hometown of Center, North Dakota, there are no stoplights, grocery stores, or motels, just a few bars and churches, with pews filled on […]
posted Sunday, June 12, 2022
The Reservoir tells the story of a former Wall Street veteran, quarantined by the coronavirus, who becomes consumed with the madness, or the fulfillment of his own mythic fate. An unexceptional man in an exceptional time. We see our present-day pandemic world and New York City through the eyes of Ridley, as he looks back […]
