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Wilde Stories 2010: The Year’s Best Gay Speculative Fiction

July 1, 2011
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I’m quite thrilled that there is an anthology of gay science fiction, fantasy and horror. This is the series 3rd year by Editor Steve Berman and if some of these 12 stories are any barometer of future editions we will be well pleased. As mentioned on KindleClay for the book, Wilde Stories 2010 was...
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Secret Historian: The Life and Times of Samuel Steward, Professor, Tattoo Artist, and Sexual Renegade [Kindle Edition]

July 1, 2011
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Most if not all people in this nation are unaware of the History of, what is euphemistically called Gay. I suppose one can at least be thankful that we aren’t called the ‘other’ less pleasant words. Today I look back and today we have men who marry men, and useless directives such as DADT...
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Winner 23rd Annual Lambda Literary Awards: Echoes (The Quarter Boys)

July 1, 2011
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Winner 23rd Annual Lambda Literary Awards: Echoes (The Quarter Boys)

When Sassy’s former husband, Carl Adams, turns up not only dead, an apparent suicide, but in possession of photographs of three young girls who were kidnapped and murdered a quarter of a century before, Sassy must deal with her complex past relationship with him, a past that she has tried to suppress but which...
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Winner 23rd Annual Lambda Literary Awards: Union Atlantic

June 24, 2011
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Winner 23rd Annual Lambda Literary Awards: Union Atlantic

So it’s with surprise, even incredulity, that you grasp, as you read Adam Haslett’s first novel, that this book, set chiefly in 2002, not only tucks 9/11 into its narrative in an uncowed, offhand way but, to an extent, leaves it behind.
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Winner 23rd Annual Lambda Literary Awards: Inferno (a poet’s novel)

June 23, 2011
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Winner 23rd Annual Lambda Literary Awards:  Inferno (a poet’s novel)

While this Inferno is a novel, it also follows the details of Myles’s life: a childhood and young adulthood in working-class Boston, a move to New York in the early-‘70s, and a path of self-actualization as a poet in a now-mythic downtown New York: “I understood community. Going to the place and standing around....
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The Painter, the Creature, and the Father of Lies

June 23, 2011
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The Painter, the Creature, and the Father of Lies

The editors, Phil and Sarah Stokes, who operate the official Clive Barker website, have spent the past several years compiling these 100 separate pieces to produce a truly definitive work. This collection features a new foreword by Barker, an introduction by the Stokes, and new illustrations by Barker. The numbered and lettered edition will...
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Winner 23rd Annual Lambda Literary Awards: Diana Comet and Other Improbable Stories

June 22, 2011
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Winner 23rd Annual Lambda Literary Awards:  Diana Comet and Other Improbable Stories

It is hard to know what to make of this book. Sandra MacDonald's collection of fourteen loosely interconnected stories has runaway kids and collapsible orchestras, lovesick cowboys and Walt Whitman, slave religions and talking corpses, fantasy firemen mascots and slush from the Vietnam war. The stories are set on a nineteenth to twentieth century...
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Winner 23rd Annual Lambda Literary Awards: Assuming a Body

June 21, 2011
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Winner 23rd Annual Lambda Literary Awards: Assuming a Body

"In this remarkable book, Gayle Salamon makes original use of the notion of the bodily schema (from phenomenology) and the bodily ego (from psychoanalysis) to argue in the most persuasive and deft terms that the body's materiality assumes a form through a schema that provides for its articulation. Unlike other work in this burgeoning...
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Winner 23rd Annual Lambda Literary Awards: Another Country

June 20, 2011
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Winner 23rd Annual Lambda Literary Awards: Another Country

Scott Herring tells the story that most of us have heard: A young gay person grows up in a rustic, rural area, inundated with homophobia.
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Winner 23rd Annual Lambda Literary Awards: King Kong Theory

June 17, 2011
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Winner 23rd Annual Lambda Literary Awards: King Kong Theory

Virginie Despentes is best known for writing and directing Baise-moi (Fuck Me), a film that polarised critics and audiences with its graphic scenes of rape, murder and real sex. This book is in part a rumination on the consequences of making the film and so is both a memoir and polemic.
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