The author's lyricism and low-key humor successfully contend with the weight of
an immense melancholy. And despite its casual texture, Tondelli's prose never
deviates far from the 'seam of that other reality that we call art'.-The New
York Times Book Review
Leo is an Italian writer in his 30s. Thomas, his German lover, is dead. On a
plane to Munich, Thomas' home town, Leo slips into a reverie of their meeting
and life in Paris, nights in Thomas' flat in Montmartre and a desperate,
drug-induced flight through the forests of northern France. Tondelli's last book
is a powerful novel of the strength of love and the trauma of death.
Pier Vittorio Tondelli died of AIDS in Milan in 1991. The author of four novels
and a collection of short stories, Tondelli was one of the most gifted Italian
writers of his generation.
In 1982, Bruce Springsteen departed from an upbeat rock and roll sound to
release Nebraska — a spare, haunting piece of storytelling populated by
deadbeats, desperadoes, and the poor souls unfortunate enough to fall in love
with them. In Deliver Me from Nowhere, the shadowy folk fables of Springsteen's
masterwork are reimagined in starkly beautiful short stories that trace a proud
but perilous journey into the racial and sexual badlands of Middle America. An
unnamed girl takes a dangerous older lover and is whisked into an interstate
killing spree. A transgendered man attempts to go home after years of absence
and wonders what his family will think of him. As these restless characters
traverse arbitrary borders both internal and external, they question the
possibility and even desirability of redemption.
Review:
"Tennessee Jones's interpretive fictions are as big, bleak and beautiful as the
American landscape, all full of lonely smells, whiskey, class desperation, and
the dusty, archetypal dirt road to nowhere." Michelle Tea, author of Valencia
and The Chelsea Whistle
Review:
"Tennessee delivers gender with a wallop. This writing creeps right up on you —
with all its authentic normalcy and like the worst story you ever heard in high
school, Deliver me from Nowhere leaves a residue you can't escape. There's an
undeniable truth to it." Eileen Myles, author of Cool For You
A bold exposé of the controversial secret that has potentially dire consequences
in many African American communities
Delivering the first frank and thorough investigation of life “on the down low”
(the DL), J. L. King exposes a closeted culture of sex between black men who
lead “straight” lives. King explores his own past as a DL man, and the path that
led him to let go of the lies and bring forth a message that can promote
emotional healing and open discussions about relationships, sex, sexuality, and
health in the black community.
Providing a long-overdue wake-up call, J. L. King bravely puts the spotlight on
a topic that has until now remained dangerously taboo. Drawn from hundreds of
interviews, statistics, and the author’s firsthand knowledge of DL behavior, On
the Down Low reveals the warning signs African American women need to know. King
also discusses the potential health consequences of having unprotected sex, as
African American women represent an alarming 64 percent of new HIV infections.
Volatile yet vital, On the Down Low is sure to be one of the most talked-about
books of the year.
Reviews:
"This book has folks buzzing like a tree full of cicadas." —Philadelphia
Inquirer
"There's a new book girlfriends have got to read. It's a page-turner." —Newsday
(New York)
"A wake-up call." —Dallas Voice
"A good read." —The News Sentinel (Fort Wayne, IN)
"A revealing look at an important social health issue." —Booklist
"King ultimately delivers a powerful and emotional story and must be lauded for
having the courage to do so!" —QBR The Black Book Review
"...King's street-wise, older-brother persona provides a comfortable way to
couch this sensitive, complex subject matter." Gay & Lesbian Review, July/August
2004 Tony Peregrin
It is spring of 1986 in Santiago, Chile, and
political and social unrest against Pinochet's dictatorship is growing. In one
of the city's poorer neighborhoods, an effeminate homosexual and hopeless
romantic known as the Queen of the Corner has fallen in love with a handsome
young straight man who is using her house to store mysterious boxes and hold
clandestine meetings. What the Queen doesn't know, as she falls hopelessly in
love, is that Carlos and his friends are plotting an act of revolutionary
sabotage: nothing less than the assassination of Pinochet. While the Queen and
Carlos negotiate their unspoken complicity and mismatched affections to the beat
of the bolero and the threat of repression, we are also treated to an intimate
view of Pinochet's world, replete with revolutionary troublemakers, negative
world opinion, fascistic reveries, terrifying nightmares, and an endlessly
chattering wife who has more respect and affection for her gay stylist than her
macho husband. The novel culminates a few days before the anniversary of
Pinochet's rise to power, when Carlos and his comrades carry out their dramatic
attack. By one of Latin America's most outspoken and innovative novelists, "My
Tender Matador is an extraordinary novel that is by turns lyrical, quietly
funny, and deeply moving.
Review:
"A sharp account, suspenseful and nicely paced, that benefits from the unusual
perspectives of innocent bystanders in this dirty game." Kirkus, 12/01/2003
Los Angeles has no ghettos, according to some.
And that is nearly true. But even behind the sun-kissed facade of privilege in
its Black upper middle class is a harsher reality.
In Search of Pretty Young Black Men is the tale of Dorian Moore, a mysterious
and seductive young man who provides comfort to the moneyed, the neglected, the
lost, and the lonely in an elegant hilltop community in Southern California.
Among the women is Maggie Lester-Allegro, who, disillusioned by a loveless
marriage, finds support in her small circle of women friends and sexual healing
in Dorian's arms. The blessing brought by this pretty black man soon becomes a
fatal curse, as terrible truths come to light.
Maggie's husband, Lamont, seeks sexual solace outside of their picture-perfect
marriage as well. He lives in the shadow of his larger-than-life father, a
member of the Baldwin Hills gentry, and under the weight of secrets and lies
that threaten to tumble the walls of his carefully guarded life and standing
among the elite.
This stunning new novel, by the author of Diva, is a poetically rendered,
provocative, and revealing tale that challenges every notion of what we believe
equals success, prestige, and, most of all, love.
A stunning new novel, which bestselling author E. Lynn Harris describes as "a
provocative--often shocking--tale of lost love, good sex, and secret longings,"
written by the NAACP Image Award-winning playwright, filmmaker, and author of
"Diva."
Certain to become a literary touchstone, Fresh Men collects the best new writing
by emerging gay authors from around the nation. The critically acclaimed author
Edmund White, chair of the Creative Writing program at Princeton and the author
of more than 17 gay works, selects 20 original stories from the new crop of
extraordinary writers. With equal parts sensitivity and irreverence, Fresh Men
speaks to the broad range of gay experiences. From stories of coming out, coming
of age, self-representation and family to sex and love in the time of AIDS, from
living in the closet to loving in a post-gay world, this book highlights the
complexities of gay life. This groundbreaking collection also embodies a wide
spectrum of literary tastes, from works rich in experimental, transgressive
elements to more conventional, traditionally crafted stories.
Lives of the Circus Animals is a brilliant new comedy about New York theater
people: actors, writers, personal assistants, and a drama critic for the New
York Times. They are male, female, straight, gay, in love with their work or in
love with each other, and one of them, British star Henry Lewse, "the Hamlet of
his generation," is famous.
Award-winning novelist Christopher Bram gives us ten days and nights in this
small-town world in the heart of a big city, an engaging novel that is also a
satiric celebration of the quest for sanity in the face of those two impostors,
success and failure.
Best-selling novelist, memoirist, and biographer Edmund White displays his sharp
wit and boundless erudition in 37 portraits of the writers, artists, and
cultural icons who have captured his curiosity and imagination for the last 20
years. White is as compelling as he is unpretentious in these stories of his
encounters with some of the most provocative writers, artists, and personalities
of our time. Marcel Proust, Catherine Deneuve, David Geffen, Robert
Mapplethorpe, Andre Gide, Michel Foucault, Andy Warhol, Vladimir Nabokov, Jean
Genet, Jasper Johns, Allen Ginsberg, Yves Saint Laurent, and Elton John are
among the cast.
In the tradition of
Bright Lights, Big City and Less Than Zero, Tom Dolby has written a
searing debut novel about going after what you really want without losing
yourself in the process. Powerfully written, keenly felt, The Trouble Boy
heralds an exciting new voice in fiction. “This is about fame and celebrity and
the lengths to which people will go to have a taste of it…”
The ultimate
Hollywood saga. A gorgeous, ambitious (and closeted) young gay man becomes
America's favorite action hero), but the clock is ticking, beauty fades, lies
often unravel, and fame is fleeting in the fickle world of Hollywood.
Pedro and Me!
Without the third season of MTV's The Real World, set in San Francisco,
Pedro Zamora would have lived and died quietly, a Cuban immigrant who became an
AIDS educator after his HIV diagnosis at the age of 17. But in 1993, he and
seven others were selected for the cast of The Real World, and Pedro's
battle with AIDS.
Deliver
Me from Nowhere
On
the Down Low: A Journey Into the Lives of "Straight" Black Men Who Sleep with
Men 
My
Tender Matador 
In
Search of Pretty Young Black Men
How I Paid for College: A Novel of Sex, Theft, Friendship & Musical Theater
Arts
and Letters 
