Archive for category: Books

Alboism    (2016.05.01)

Mike Albo: ‘I am trying to feel things in my body, which is hard to do. When someone says something like “Where do you feel that?” or “What does that feel like?” I have a really hard time answering’

Braithwaite    (2016.04.27)

No one is going to write a Kathy Acker–manquée biography of Lawrence Ytzhak Braithwaite

‘Cruising the Movies’    (2016.01.18)

Boyd McDonald, of Straight to Hell infamy, watched old movies in his fleabag rooming house. “Apart from the æsthetics, we know, do we not, who is more intelligent: Men who have sex or queens who represent themselves as being above it”

Book of the year    (2016.01.04)

Here by Richard McGuire, which has radically recalibrated my sense of time. (Nº 2: Norwegian Wood)

“They did a lot else other than die”    (2015.10.26)

Gore Vidal, about his nephew, who died of AIDS: “We should try to recall that the victims of this plague have often had splendid lives. And, certainly, they did a lot else other than die”

A surprising subject for the ‘New Yorker’    (2015.10.25)

Michael Nava, Mexican-American homosexualist author of Mexican-American-homosexualist mystery novels

An immediately recognizable gay boy (21st-century edition)    (2015.10.22)

In All Out, a dual autobiography with his dad Kevin, young 21st-century gay ginger Alex Newman shows his life story is exactly the same as most gay boys’ from time immemorial

Best blurb ever    (2015.05.12)

Jeff Mann’s Cub has the best blurb ever

田亀源五郎    (2015.05.12)

Gengoroh Tagame (and compère Anne Ishii) were terribly charming at Toronto Comic Arts Festival 2015