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New in June: Cherrie Moraga, Bob Smith, and Dennis Cooper

Antonio Gonzalez Cerna
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Antonio Gonzalez Cerna
  • Celebrate Pride with a sexy summer read including new fiction from Bob Smith, Todd Gregory, Dennis Cooper, and Joan Opyr. Quarantine, one of our “highly-anticipated” books of the year by Rahul Mehta –included in the Lambda Literary Awards gift bags — debuts this month.
  • Richard Dellamora’s biography of Radclyffe Hall promises an unputdownable read of one of queer literature’s most widely read authors; while Bronson Lemer adds to the expanding list of LGBT memoirs with military themes.
  • This month there are four Latino-themed books — three of them from Duke University Press —Tacit Subjects,  a study of Dominican immigrant same-sex desire; Cherrie Moraga’s new collection, A Xicana Codex of Changing Consciousness; and Gay Latino Studies, an anthology of essays that focus on the experience of gay Latino men in the US. The fourth, Ambientes, is also an anthology edited by Lazaro Lima and Felice Picano from University of Wisconsin Press.
  • On a timely note, Cheyenne Publishing will release Awake a young adult anthology that includes stories from Nancy Garden, Robin Reardon, Jordan Taylor and Brian Katcher. Remarkably, all net publisher proceeds from the sale of Awake benefit The Trevor Project — the nation’s leading organization dedicated to ending suicide among LGBTQ youth.

The Last Deployment

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Biography & Memoir

  • The Last Deployment How a Gay, Hammer-Swinging Twentysomething Survived a Year in Iraq, by Bronson Lemer University of Wisconsin Press
  • Mind Your Own Life by Aaron Anson Balboa Press
  • Radclyffe Hall A Life in the Writing, by Richard Dellamora University of Pennsylvania Press
  • Seven Seasons in Siena My Quixotic Quest for Acceptance Among Tuscany’s Proudest People, by Robert Rodi Ballentine Books
  • Where’s My Wand? One Boy’s Magical Triumph over Alienation and Shag Carpeting by Eric Poole Berkley Trade (Now in paperback!)

Children’s & Young Adult

  • 365 Days by KE Payne Bold Strokes Books
  • Awake edited by Tracey Pennington, forward by Kathe Koja Cheyenne Publishing
  • To Do A Book of Alphabets and Birthdays (Beinecke Rare Book Manuscript), by Gertrude Stein, Giselle Potter, and T.G. Young Yale University Press

Fiction

Poetry


Illustrated

Nonfiction

  • Ambientes New Queer Latino Writing by Lazaro Lima and Felice Picano University of Wisconsin Press
  • Gay Latino Studies A Critical Reader by Michael Hames-García, Ernesto Javier Martínez, Tomás Almaguer, and Luz Calvo Duke University Press
  • A Xicana Codex of Changing Consciousness Writings, 2000-2010 by Cherrie Moraga; Celia Herrera Rodriguez Duke University Press
  • My Desire for History Essays in Gay, Community, and Labor History by Allan Berube University of North Carolina Press
  • Sister Acts The Erotics of Lesbian Landscapes by Lisa Moore University of Minnesota Press
  • Tacit Subjects Belonging, Same-Sex Desire, and Daily Life among Dominican Immigrant Men Carlos Ulises Decena Duke University Press
  • The Beach Beneath the Streets Contesting New York City’s Public Spaces by Benjamin Heim Shepard, Gregory Smithsimon SUNY Press Excelsoir Editions

Romance

Erotica

Science Fiction, Fantasy, & Horror

As always, if we missed an author or book, or if you have a book coming out next month, please email us.