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Very Recent History: An Entirely Factual Account of a Year (c. AD 2009) in a Large City
Published: 2014-08-05
Paperback: 272 pages
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Very Recent History by Choire Sicha is an idiosyncratic and elegant narrative that follows a handful of young men in New York City as they navigate the ruins of money and power—in search of love and connection.After the Wall Street crash of 2008, the richest man in town is the mayor. Bil...
Jews Queers Germans: A Novel/History
Published: 2017-03-07
Paperback: 384 pages
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A breathtaking historical novel that recreates the intimate milieu around Germany's Kaiser Wilhelm from 1907 through the 1930s, a period of great human suffering and destruction and also of enormous freedom and creativity, a time when the remnants and artifices of the old word still matter...
Ernesto (New York Review Books Classics)
Published: 2017-03-28
Paperback: 160 pages
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A coming of age story that is a classic of gay literature, now in English for the first time An NYRB Classics OriginalErnesto is a classic of gay literature, a tender and complex tale of sexual awakening by one of Italy’s most admired poets. Ernesto is a sixteen-year-old boy from an ed...
Faggots
Published: 2000-06-01
Paperback: 384 pages
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Larry Kramer's Faggots has been in print since its original publication in 1978 and has become one of the best-selling novels about gay life ever written. The book is a fierce satire of the gay ghetto and a touching story of one man's desperate search for love there, and reading it today i...
Numbers
Published: 1994-01-13
Paperback: 256 pages
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Book jacket/back: Johnny Rio, a handsome narcissist but no longer a pretty boy, travels to Los Angeles, the site of past sexual conquest and remembered youthful radiance, in a frenzied attempt to recreate his younger self. Johnny has ten precious days to draw the "numbers," the men who wil...
Notes of a Desolate Man
Published: 2000-11-15
Paperback: 184 pages
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Winner of the coveted China Times Novel Prize, this postmodern, first-person tale of a contemporary Taiwanese gay man reflecting on his life, loves, and intellectual influences is among the most important recent novels in Taiwan.The narrator, Xiao Shao, recollects a series of friends and l...
Another Morocco: Selected Stories (Semiotext(e) / Native Agents)
Published: 2017-03-24
Paperback: 168 pages
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Tangier is a possessed city, haunted by spirits of different faiths. When we have literature in our blood, in our souls, it's impossible not to be visited by them. -- from Another MoroccoIn 2006, Abdellah Taïa returned to his native Morocco to promote the Moroccan release of his second b...
Mundo Cruel: Stories (Lambda Literary Awards - Gay Fiction)
Published: 2013-03-12
Paperback: 96 pages
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Luis Negrón’s debut collection reveals the intimate world of a small community in Puerto Rico joined together by its transgressive sexuality. The writing straddles the shifting line between pure, unadorned storytelling and satire, exploring the sometimes hilarious and sometimes heartbreaking nature...
Beijing Comrades
Published: 2016-03-15
Paperback: 312 pages
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When Handong, a ruthless and wealthy businessman, is introduced to Lan Yu, a naïve, working-class architectural student—the attraction is all consuming.Arrogant and privileged, Handong is unsettled by this desire, while Lan Yu quietly submits. Despite divergent lives, the two men spend ...
The Up Stairs Lounge Arson: Thirty-Two Deaths in a New Orleans Gay Bar, June 24, 1973
Published: 2014-06-05
Paperback: 216 pages
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On June 24, 1973, a fire in a New Orleans gay bar killed 32 people. This still stands as the deadliest fire in the city's history. Though arson was suspected, and though the police identified a likely culprit, no arrest was ever made. Additionally, government and religious leaders who norm...
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