Punk Rock: Music Is The Currency Of Live – how punk rock shaped modern culture, including from the LGBTQ+, feminist, and alternative communities.

posted Friday, October 7, 2022

by: Bryen Dunn in Books

Punk Rock: Music Is The Currency Of Live examines the history of punk rock in its totality. Punk became a way of thinking about the role of culture and community in modern life. Punks forged real alternatives to producing popular music and built community around their music. This punk counterpublic, forged in the late Cold War […]

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The Family Outing – how one family deals with each other’s coming out story

posted Tuesday, October 4, 2022

by: Bryen Dunn in Books

The Family Outing tells the story of Jessi Hempel, who was raised in a seemingly picture-perfect, middle-class American family. But the truth was far from perfect. Her father was constantly away from home, traveling for work, while her stay-at-home mother became increasingly lonely and erratic. Growing up, Jessi and her two siblings struggled to make […]

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Scenes From The Underground

posted Tuesday, October 4, 2022

by: Bryen Dunn in Books

I have just heard for the first time the expression “to make soup”: it means to mix the bottom-of-the-pocket drugs of everyone huddled in the club toilet stall, opened MD, ketamine, old dry speed, crushed e pills, to make big lines that will let us forget the past forty-eight hours that have been so difficult. […]

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The Mouth is a Coven – a modern day vampire tale

posted Monday, October 3, 2022

by: Bryen Dunn in Books

Have you ever seen a ghost? In Starling City, there are spirits on every street corner. Everyone in town seems to have at least one ghastly tale to tell. So, it’s no wonder that a place like this breeds people like Blue and Julie, who summon demons just for fun and are obsessed with a […]

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Wrath Goddess Sing – the trans woman’s story hidden underneath the well-known myths of The Iliad

posted Friday, September 30, 2022

by: Bryen Dunn in Books

Wrath Goddess Sing weaves a compelling, pitilessly beautiful vision of Achilles’ vanished world, that draws on ancient texts and modern archeology to reveal the trans woman’s story hidden underneath the well-known myths of The Iliad. Perfect for fans of Song of Achilles and the Inheritance trilogy. Achilles has fled her home and her vicious Myrmidon […]

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Is My Microphone On? Jordan Tannahill’s play depicts the hopeful youth voice of today

posted Thursday, September 22, 2022

by: Bryen Dunn in Books

 Is My Microphone On? is a play in the form of a protest song, in which a chorus of young performers hold the audience to account, and invite them to experience the world together anew. In another life I was a small bubble of foam on a wave coming to shore, and the wave broke, and […]

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Pride, Pop, and Politics – 50 Years of LGBTQ+ Politics and Pop Culture in the UK

posted Friday, September 9, 2022

by: Bryen Dunn in Books

Pride, Pop and Politics charts the development of gay culture and the rise of LGBTQ politics in the UK, from the formation of the Gay Liberation Front to the present day, through the music that provided the soundtrack. Fifty years on from Britain’s first Pride march, the long road to LGBT equality continues. Through protest songs […]

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BOWIE @ 75 – book chronicles 75 career achievements and life events

posted Tuesday, September 6, 2022

by: Bryen Dunn in Books

BOWIE AT 75 is a unique and beautifully produced celebration of the iconic rock start, examining his extraordinary life through the lens of 75 significant career achievements and life events. Hendrix, Joplin, Mercury…few rock artists garner as much adulation after passing as they did in life. In Bowie at 75, veteran rock journalist Martin Popoff guides […]

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Fire Island – A Century in the Life of an American Paradise

posted Friday, September 2, 2022

by: Bryen Dunn in Books

A groundbreaking account of New York’s Fire Island, chronicling its influence on art, literature, culture and queer liberation over the past century Fire Island, a thin strip of beach off the Long Island coast, has long been a vital space in the queer history of America. Both utopian and exclusionary, healing and destructive, the island is […]

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A Waiter In Paris – memoir of a writer working as a waiter, and other low paying menial jobs

posted Sunday, August 28, 2022

by: Bryen Dunn in Books

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 […]

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