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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 […]
posted Thursday, May 19, 2022
In a career spanning nearly half a century, embracing memoirs, literary fiction, sci-fi and thrillers alike, it’s odd that Felice Picano’s oeuvre has boasted only one full poetry collection—until now. It may be even odder that but for an act of serendipity this belated second volume might never have happened. His first collection, The Deformity […]
posted Saturday, May 14, 2022
Una Fogarty, suffering from dementia in a seaside nursing home, would be all alone without her brother Dan, whose epic free-verse monologue tells their family story. Exile from Ireland and immigrant life in England. Their mother’s trials as a call girl. Young Una’s search for love in a seemingly haunted hippie squat, and the two-timing […]
posted Tuesday, May 10, 2022
No one ever wants to receive word that their sibling, child, grandchild, or friend has been killed by a random act of violence, yet in recent years it has become more common place that we would like to hear. Long Live King Kobe: Following the Murder of Tyler Nichols tells the story of a heart-wrenching […]
posted Friday, May 6, 2022
You know immediately when you are in the hands of a master wordsmith. David Bateman, novelist and poet, is just that. His elegant sentences and witty wordplay are as lithe and adept as the movements of a trained dancer. Whether talking about pure sex or the intricacies of the heart, he lets his words lead. […]
posted Wednesday, May 4, 2022
From the Booker Prize-winning author of Shuggie Bain, Young Mungo is both a vivid portrayal of working-class life and the deeply moving story of the dangerous first love of two young men. Born under different stars, Protestant Mungo and Catholic James live in a hyper-masculine world. They are caught between two of Glasgow’s housing estates where young working-class […]
posted Tuesday, May 3, 2022
A hilariously filthy tale of sex, crime, and family dysfunction from the brilliantly twisted mind of John Waters, the legendary filmmaker and bestselling author of Mr. Know-It-All. Marsha Sprinkle: Suitcase thief. Scammer. Master of disguise. Dogs and children hate her. Her own family wants her dead. She’s smart, she’s desperate, she’s disturbed, and she’s on the […]
