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posted Wednesday, April 8, 2026
River Running dives gracefully into the intangible concept of home, be it person or place. “No more metaphors tonight,” writes Baillie, “I come to tell you nothing / but the truth.” This collection probes at memory and love, identity and grief, with achingly gentle hands, sifting through the fragments one both leaves behind and becomes. […]
posted Monday, March 30, 2026
Night Terminus begins with a chance encounter in 1985, an unnamed narrator embarks on a physical and spiritual sojourn over four decades, where he encounters a cast of exiles, fugitives, rebels, and artists. From a one-night stand in Paris with the troubled and enigmatic Louis, to Montreal, then through a divided Europe, and into the […]
posted Tuesday, March 24, 2026
In the Days of My Youth I Was Told What It Means to Be a Man a searching, brilliantly stylized memoir about a charismatic, philandering father who tried to mold his son in his image, the many secrets he hid, the son’s obsessive quest to uncover them, and ultimately, the true meaning of manhood Big Lou […]
posted Tuesday, March 17, 2026
Even the Good Girls Will Cry begins with Melissa Auf der Maur’s bohemian upbringing in Montreal, where her early, deep connection to art and music gave her entry to the colorful and thriving local creative scene. Working as a cassette DJ and ticket girl, she would see (and sometimes meet) the luminaries who’d pass through town—Nirvana, […]
posted Sunday, March 8, 2026
Isaac is set in London across a single, life-altering summer. It’s a queer story for our digital age, offering new perspectives on desire and intimacy, adolescent obsession, and dangerous first love. Isaac is an inexperienced gay youth whose first sexual encounter via a dating app is disappointing, yet thrillingly addictive. He spends his final months before […]
posted Tuesday, March 3, 2026
THE SPIRIT OF ANI is a captivating journey of intimate reflections with Ani DiFranco, a pathbreaking, highly original artist of our time. In this powerful collaborative work, the legendary folk-rock star and feminist icon is in conversation with author, artist, and cultural anthropologist Lauren Coyle Rosen. In these exchanges, Ani is remarkably open about her creativity, […]
posted Tuesday, March 3, 2026
AlphaPussy is a collection of true stories that explore themes of experience, survival, and the art of figuring it out as you go. From a wayward California girl growing up in the heart of the porn-born San Fernando Valley, Gina Gershon found herself on a journey that has been anything but traditional. Along the way, she had […]
posted Tuesday, February 17, 2026
Disco Witches of Fire Island begins in 1989, when Joe Agabian and his best friend Ronnie set out to spend their first summer working in the hedonistic gay paradise of Fire Island Pines. Joe is desperate to let loose and finally move beyond the heartbreak of having lost his boyfriend to the HIV/AIDS epidemic. The […]
posted Thursday, February 12, 2026
THE ROYAL WE is a poetic survey of a time set in a magical city that once was and is no more. It is a memoir written by Roddy Bottum, a musician and artist, that documents his coming of age and out of the closet in 1980s San Francisco, a charged era of bicycle messengers, […]
posted Monday, February 2, 2026
Queen Esther sees John Irving return to the world of his bestselling classic novel and Academy Award winner The Cider House Rules, revisiting the orphanage in St. Cloud’s, Maine, where Dr. Larch takes in Esther, a three-year-old Jew whose life is shaped by anti-Semitism. Esther Nacht is born in Vienna in 1905. Her father dies on […]
