Go Tell It On The Mountain (Deluxe Edition) – James Balwin’s classic coming-of-age story partially based on his own Harlem childhood

posted Wednesday, June 18, 2025

by: Bryen Dunn in Books

Go Tell It on the Mountain was originally published in 1953. It was James Baldwin’s first major work, based in part on his own childhood in Harlem. With lyrical precision, psychological directness, resonating symbolic power, and a rage that is at once unrelenting and compassionate, Baldwin chronicles a fourteen-year-old boy’s discovery of the terms of […]

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I Like People That Can’t Sing: Paul Nelson Interviews Leonard Cohen & Lucinda Williams

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025

by: Bryen Dunn in Books

I Like People That Can’t Sing offers two long-lost interviews with two of the greatest pop singers of the modern era, by one of the greatest rock journalists and interviewers, compiled by author Kevin Avery. In 1991, legendary but down-and-out rock critic Paul Nelson landed his dream assignment: fly from New York to Los Angeles […]

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Palm Meridian – futuristic tale about one resident’s last day at a Florida retirement resort for queer women

posted Tuesday, June 10, 2025

by: Bryen Dunn in Books

Palm Meridian is a rollicking, big-hearted story of long-lost love, friendship, and a life well-lived. Set at a Florida retirement resort for queer women, a series of comical events unfold on the last day of resident Hannah Cardin’s life. It’s 2067 and Florida is partially underwater, but even that can’t bring down the residents of […]

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Room 100 – Sid, Nancy, and the night punk rock died

posted Sunday, June 8, 2025

by: Bryen Dunn in Books

Room 100 chronicles the tragic story of Sid Vicious and Nancy Spungen, punk rock’s very own Romeo and Juliet. Through a wealth of archival material, plus new and exclusive interviews from rock luminaries such as Television guitarist Richard Lloyd, iconic photographer Robert Bayley, and PUNK magazine co-creator John Holmstrom. Critically acclaimed true-crime writer Jesse P. Pollack’s book is […]

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Deep House: The Gayest Love Story Ever Told is a rule-breaking, sweat-soaked, genre-busting story of outlaw love

posted Tuesday, June 3, 2025

by: Bryen Dunn in Books

Deep House: The Gayest Love Story Ever Told takes place in 1996, with Jeremy Atherton Lin having just met the boy of his dreams, a mumbling, starry-eyed Brit. Simultaneously, amid a media frenzy, US Congress prepares the Defense of Marriage Act, denying same-sex couples federal rights including immigration. The pair steals away to remote forests and vast […]

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Sick and Dirty: Hollywood’s Gay Golden Age and the Making of Modern Queerness

posted Tuesday, June 3, 2025

by: Bryen Dunn in Books

Sick and Dirty is a blazingly original historical review that details the persistence of queerness on screen, behind the camera, and between the lines, during the dark days of the Hollywood Production Code. From the 1930s to the 1960s, the Motion Picture Production Code severely restricted what Hollywood cinema could depict. This included “any inference” […]

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The South is an intimate story about inheritance, loyalty, and love, set against the backdrop of a changing Malaysia

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025

by: Bryen Dunn in Books

The South is a luminous and intimate novel about the weight of inheritance, the bonds of loyalty, and the awakening of love, set against the backdrop of a changing Malaysia. The story unfolds during a visit by the Lim family to their rural clan estate after a long absence. Jay, in his mid-teens, and his […]

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The Giveaway: The Clay Blackburn Story – collective tales about bisexual Berkeley raconteur

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025

by: Bryen Dunn in Books

The Giveaway tells the story Clay Blackburn, a poet, book scout, and sometimes detective, who cruises the mean, and sometimes not so mean, streets of Berkeley. With his accomplices, a soldier of fortune, a “defrocked” FBI agent, and a smooth and sexy con man, he lives a life of bisexual sensation with a little crime […]

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The Stalker – a down on his luck, self-entitled young man cons women into his delusional life

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025

by: Bryen Dunn in Books

The Stalker follows a young man who combines boundless self-confidence with perpetual failure and ineptitude, as he tries to manipulate his way into a better life, preying on women in New York City in the early ’90s. An Untalented Mr. Ripley, a Dumb American Psycho.Robert Doughten Savile, aka “Doughty,” is the son of a once-wealthy, […]

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I Remember Lights – a tale of queer life and love in Montreal during the 1960’s and 70s

posted Sunday, May 25, 2025

by: Bryen Dunn in Books

I Remember Lights depicts a time when the world promised everything to everyone, however irresponsibly. In summer 1967, love is all you need…but some forms of love are criminal. As the spectacular Expo 67 celebrations take shape, a young man new to Montreal learns about gay life from cruising partners, one-night stands, live-in lovers, and […]

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