It’s official: Don Wiese has launched Magnus Books, an independent press dedicated to LGBT literature. Magnus will publish fifteen to twenty titles a year.
As I have written before, I believe that Don Wiese is one of the best
Wonderful News for Queer Readers. Magnus Books Begins. The Publisher is Don Wiese. Read More »
One of my first art memories was a childhood visit to the Art Institute of Chicago. My father had taken me there to see the current exhibition . (I can’t remember what it was.) And along the way we passed
R. Tripp Evans’s Grant Wood Biography is Sublime. Read More »
It’s official: Don Wiese has left Alyson Books. This is terrible news for queer readers. Mr. Wiese is an excellent editor. He transformed Carrol and Graf into a high quality publishing house. And he published quite a few high quality
Bad News for Queer Readers. Don Wiese Has Left Alyson Books. Read More »
I love Stephen McCauley’s new novel, Insignificant Others. It is frequently humorous and for this reason, some are referring to it as a “comic novel.” But this term does not do justice to this book. Because it implies a surface
Stephen McCauley’s Insignificant Others is Delightful. Read More »
When Gay Plays: The First Collection was published in 1979, the editor, William Hoffman made the conscious decision to omit Mart Crowley’s The Boys in the Band. There were a lot of reasons why 1970’s gays didn’t like The Boys
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As you probably have read by now, Sebastian Stuart’s The Hour Between won the Publishing Triangle Award for Fiction. The best thing about this news for me was that I discovered a book that I had somehow missed when it
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This queer reader doesn’t usually find himself reviewing books with titles like Party Animals: A Hollywood Tale of Sex Drugs and Rock and Roll Starring Allan Carr. Let alone those with covers like the one shown on the left.
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I’m delighted to report that David McConnell’s new novel The Silver Hearted is excellent. The Silver Hearted is a suspenseful adventure story that is clearly influenced by Robert Louis Stevenson, Joseph Conrad and Edgar Alan Poe. This unfortunately implies a
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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
Happy Birthday Abraham Lincoln. America’s Second Gay President? Read More »
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
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