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Written by Gregg Shapiro
Jan 27, 2011
Gay author Wade Rouse reads from his new book “It’s All Relative: Two Families, Three Dogs, 34 Holidays, and 50 Boxes of Wine” at 7 p.m., Feb. 8, at Boswell Book Company, 2559 N. Downer in Milwaukee. – Photo: Courtesy
LGBT fiction
“The Cruel Ever After” (Minotaur, 2011) is award-winning lesbian mystery writer Ellen Hart’s latest Jane Lawless Mystery featuring sleuthing Minneapolis restaurateur Jane Lawless.
The late lesbian writer Patricia Highsmith, author of “The Talented Mr. Ripley” and others, is feted in “The Highsmith Reader” (Norton, 2010), featuring an introduction by Joan Schenkar and including the novels “Strangers On A Train” (which became a Hitchcock film), “The Price of Salt,” as well as seven early stories and six later ones.
Bodybuilder, TV writer (“Knots Landing”) and author of four previous works of fiction, David Marlow has written his first gay novel “Muscle Bound” (iUniverse, 2010), the story of “roamosexual” Chase Hyde (get it?).
Kathe Koja, the straight author of the acclaimed gay Y/A novel “Talk,” returns with “Under The Poppy” (Small Beer Press, 2010). Set in 1870s Brussels in the titular brothel, Decca is in love with Rupert, but Rupert is in love with her brother Istvan.
Intriguingly described as “a tale of midlife and adolescence,” lesbian poet and writer Janet Mason’s new novel is “Hitching To Nirvana” (Cycladic Press, 2010).
New Jersey native turned Southern transplant Cyn Chadwick has a new fictional work, “Angels and Manners” (Bywater Books, 2010). It explores the unexpected relationship between working-class mother Carrie and the upscale divorcee Jen.
Fiction debuts
Chicago Gay and Lesbian Hall of Fame inductee and LGBT marriage rights activist Jeff Graubart is the author of the epic 732-page tome “The Quest For Brian” (thequestforbrian.com, 2010), “the story of one man’s personal struggle for gay liberation in the turbulent ’70s.”
Out writer and musician Matthew Gallaway’s first novel “The Metropolis Case” (Crown, 2010), moves through time and shifts across geography, from Paris in the 1860s to the New York City of today, to tell the stories of Martin, Anna, Maria and Lucien.
One of the nine unusual stories in Lonely Christopher’s debut short story collection “The Mechanics of Homosexual Intercourse” (Little House On the Bowery, 2011) features young gay man Dumb and his dead lover Right.
Canadian author Kevin Winters proves that lesbians aren’t the only ones who have a way with a murder mystery in “The One” (CreateSpace, 2010)
LGBT non-fiction
In his humorous memoir “It’s All Relative: Two Families, Three Dogs, 34 Holidays, and 50 Boxes of Wine” (Crown, 2011), gay writer Wade Rouse goes directly for your funny bone.
Out lesbian Tabatha Coffey, Bravo’s “Shear Genius” fan favorite and star of her own Bravo series “Tabatha’s Salon Takeover,” delivers “the honest truth about life, love and the business of beauty” in her memoir “It’s Not Really About The Hair” (!t Books, 2011).
Award-winning gay writer Ken Harvey has penned the memoir “A Passionate Engagement” (Aequitas, 2010), which combines his personal story with that of the legalization of same-sex marriage in Massachusetts.
Reissued in anticipation of Simon LeVay’s forthcoming Oxford title “Gay, Straight and The Reason Why,” John Money’s technical “Gay, Straight and In-Between” (Oxford University Press, 1988/2010) is subtitled “The Sexology of Erotic Orientation.”
“Tomorrow May Be Too Late: A Love Story” (tomorrowmaybetoolate.com, 2010) by Thomas Marino is a coming-out memoir about being a “banker by day, stripper by night” during the late 1980s on the East Coast.
Robert Parker Mills, the attorney for Rock Hudson’s estate, sets out to set the record straight, so to speak, regarding the suit filed by Hudson’s “alleged partner” Marc Christian. The title of the book is “Between Rock and a Hard Place: In Defense of Rock Hudson – From the Ashes of Trial to the Light of Truth” (Author House).
Songwriter-turned-memoirist Jonathan Clift makes his prose-writing debut with the book “An Unconventional Life” (jonathanclift.com).
Picture books
The companion to the “first major museum exhibition in American history” focusing on LGBT “art and culture from the late 19th century to the present, “Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture” (Smith-sonian Books, 2010), by Jonathan D. Katz and David C. Ward, features the work of Andy Warhol, Marsden Hartley, Jasper Johns, Catherine Opie, David Wojnarwicz, Keith Haring, George Platt-Lynes, Paul Cadmus, Tee Corinne, Robert Mapplethorpe and many others.
Fans of the poetry slam (born in Chicago at the Green Mill) and spoken word will want to check out “Lip Smack: A History of Spoken Word Poetry in DC” (Beltway Editions, 2010) by Kim Roberts. The book features multiple images, spanning nearly 20 years, and includes out performance poet Regie Cabico and Karen Taggart, among others.
There are photos and illustrations aplenty to accompany the 150 items in “Stuff That Makes A Gay Heart Weep: A Definitive Guide to the Loud & Proud Dislikes of Millions” (Adams Media, 2010) by Freeman Hall.
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