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posted Friday, June 10, 2022
If you are looking for a fun twist on a summer road trip why not pick up A Haunted Road Atlas, the debut book from Christine Schiefer and Em Schulz, co-hosts of the hit podcast, And That’s Why We Drink. A Haunted Road Atlas is your interactive guide to the hosts’ favourite spooky and sinister sights throughout the U.S. Pack your bags and your […]
posted Thursday, June 9, 2022
In the late-1930s, writers as diverse in their outlook as George Orwell, Emma Goldman and Ernest Hemingway flocked to Spain in search of writing material. They quickly found it, as the country was in the midst of a civil war. Sometimes, however, writers find themselves unintentionally wrapped up in real-life events as intoxicating as any […]
posted Tuesday, June 7, 2022
The Kingdom of Sand is a poignant tale of desire and dread—Andrew Holleran’s first new book in sixteen years. The nameless narrator is a gay man who moved to Florida to look after his aging parents—during the height of the AIDS epidemic—and has found himself unable to leave after their deaths. With gallows humour, he […]
posted Tuesday, May 31, 2022
The mystics who coined the phrase ‘the way of affirmation’ understood the apocalyptic nature of the word yes, the way it can lead out of one life and into another. Moving among the languages of Christian conversion, Classical metamorphosis, seasonal transformation, and gender transition, Luke Hathaway tells the story of the love that rewired his […]
posted Tuesday, May 31, 2022
David Sedaris loves to write, and it seems lately that he’s been churning out almost a book a year. Back when restaurant menus were still printed on paper, and wearing a mask—or not—was a decision made mostly on Halloween, David Sedaris spent his time doing normal things. As Happy-Go-Lucky opens, he is learning to shoot guns […]
posted Sunday, May 29, 2022
It’s not unusual for people to seek answers at the bottom of a bottle. But it’s rare that those answers are truly life changing — even lifesaving. Get ready to embark on the pub crawl of a lifetime in author Mark E. Scott’s emotionally charged Drunk Log. It’s an odyssey unlike any other, through very real […]
posted Saturday, May 28, 2022
Tucker Shaw’s When You Call My Name is a heartrending novel about two gay teens coming of age in New York City in 1990 at the height of the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Film fanatic Adam is seventeen and being asked out on his first date—and the guy is cute. Heart racing, Adam accepts, quickly falling in […]
posted Tuesday, May 24, 2022
An important queer voice from East Asia’s millennial generation Chō Norie, twenty-seven and originally from Taiwan, is working an office job in Tokyo. While her colleagues worry about the economy, life-insurance policies, marriage, and children, she is forced to keep her unconventional life hidden—including her sexuality and the violent attack that prompted her move to […]
posted Tuesday, May 24, 2022
Here at PinkPlayMags we’re always on the look out for interesting book recommendations for our readers, and below are four recent finds that are as diverse as you are. Get ready for a summer of relaxed reading! From Gay to Z A Queer Compendium This illustrated compendium celebrates LGBTQIA+ history and culture, written by and […]
posted Saturday, May 21, 2022
Set in 1990s New York, Slow Reveal paints an extraordinary portrait of artists who defy the arbiters of culture and challenge social norms. Art, addiction, and family dynamics capsize the Kanes when they discover the parallel life of Katharine, film editor, mother, lover, and wife. “A poem is never finished, only abandoned,” wrote Paul Valéry, an outcome […]
