Happy Birthday QueerReader.com!
QueerReader.com is two years old today. Twenty-two books have been reviewed by QueerReader.com. This has been a particularly eventful year. It began by QueerReader.com scooping USA Today with the news that Michael Cunningham is working on a new novel. Later this year, QueerReader.com published its first author interview –with Selfish and Perverse author Bob Smith. [...]
Happy Birthday Abraham Lincoln! America’s Second Gay President?
Today is the birthday of Abraham Lincoln. It’s a good time to read (or re-read) C.A. Tripp’s The Intimate World of Abraham Lincoln. In it, Mr. Tripp intelligently makes the argument that President Lincoln was gay.
Abraham Lincoln is depicted as a tall, handsome–even sexy–young man who displayed virtually no interest in women. He had several [...]
Happy Birthday Edmund White!
Today is the birthday of Edmund White. It’s a good time to reflect on the courage of one of America’s great writers. Courage is not a word often used when describing today’s American writers, but Mr. White is different. We learned from his recently published memoir, that the sixties were a time of tremendous struggle [...]
Happy Birthday Henry David Thoreau!
Today is the birthday of Henry David Thoreau. So let us take a few moments to celebrate this great American. He was, of course the author of the classic: Walden; or Life in the Woods. What makes Walden a masterpiece is its combination of a transcendental appreciation of nature and a surprisingly humorous flinty-dry wit. Many of these [...]
Happy Birthday Katharine Hepburn! Read William Mann’s Kate.
Today is Katharine Hepburn’s birthday. It’s a good day to pick up a copy of William Mann’s Kate (available in paperback). Here is my complete BlogSpot review:
Having read William Mann’s classic queer Hollywood history, Behind the Screen, I expected his new Katharine Hepburn biography to be very good. It isn’t very good. It’s great. Mr. [...]