August is a great time to get in that last bit of beach reading before fall descends upon us.
- You can enjoy the waning days of summer with new books from Terry Wolverton, Mark Henry, Dianne C. Stewart, Lyn LeJeune, Karis Walsh, Michael Griffo and Alan Clark.
- Humiliation (Picador) is Wayne Kostenbaum’s morbidly funny, disquieting and thought provoking mediation on “the poetics of abasement.” Kostenbaum cast his dissecting eye on both cultural and personal humiliations—from Anita Bryant’s famous pie in the face, to the sordid photos taken of the prisoners at Guantanamo Bay, and Kostenbaum’s own fear-inducing bar mitzvah ceremony. Kostenbaum reflects on these various humiliations, and the spectacle around them, to create a lyrical investigation of private and public shame.
- What is so great about failure? Judith “Jack” Halberstam’s new book, The Queer Art of Failure (Duke University Press Books), just might have the answer. The book is about finding alternatives to “conventional understandings of success in a heteronormative, capitalist society.” Halberstam takes Quentin Crisp’s famed line, “If at first you don’t succeed failure may be your style,” and uses it to explore themes of how “failure sometimes offers more creative, cooperative, and surprising ways of being in the world, even as it forces us to face the dark side of life, love, and libido….”
- From Macho to Mariposa: New Gay Latino Fiction (Lethe Press), edited by Charles Rice-Gonzales and Charlie Vázquez, is a collection of stories from 29 gay Latino writers from around the US. The anthology includes selections from a stellar cast of writers, including Jimmy Lam, Justin Torres, Benny Vásquez, and Robert Vázquez-Pacheco. This far reaching collection examines “don’t mess with me’ divas, alluring bad boys and sexy teenagers, but also empowered youth for whom being queer is not a question…”
As always, if we missed an author or book, or if you have a book coming out next month, please email us.
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Fiction
- The Abode of Bliss: Ten Stories for Adam by Alex Jeffers Lethe Press
- Elijah Rising by Lyn LeJeune InGroup Press
- Captain Harding’s Six-Day War by Elliott Mackle Lethe Press
- From Macho to Mariposa: New Gay Latino Fiction by Charles Rice-Gonzales and Charles Vazquez, Tincture/Lethe Press
- Rory’s Boy’s by Alan Clark, Arcadia Books
- Stealing Angel by Terry Wolverton, Spinsters Ink
- The Third Buddha by Jameson Currier, Chelsea Station Edition
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Mystery
- Men of the Mean Streets edited by Greg Herren and JM Redmann, Bold Strokes Books
- Women of the Mean Streets edited by Greg Herren and JM Redmann, Bold Strokes Books
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LGBT Studies
- Adoption by Lesbians and Gay Men: A New Dimension in Family Diversity edited by David M. Brodzinsky & Adam Pertman Oxford University Press
- Conditional Spaces: Hong Kong Lesbian Desires and Everyday Life by Denise Tse-Shang Tang, Hong Kong University Press
- Historicising Gender and Sexuality edited by Kevin P. Murphy & Jennifer M. Spear, Wiley-Blackwell
- Invisible Families: Gay Identities, Relationships, and Motherhood among Black Womenby Mignon Moore, University of California Press
- The Libertine’s Friend: Homosexuality and Masculinity in Late Imperial China by Giovanni Vitiello, University of Chicago Press
- Odd Couples: A History of Gay Marriage in Scandinavia by Jens Rydstrom, Amsterdam University Press
- The Queer Art of Failure by Judith Halberstam, Duke University Press Books
- Queer Modernity and Sexual Identity in Taiwan by Hans Tao-Ming Hong Kong University Press
- Queer Theatre and the Legacy of Cal Yeomans by Robert A. Schanke, Palgrave Macmillan
- Relocations: Queer Suburban Imaginaries by Karen Tongson, NYU Press
- Strange Affinities: the Gender and Sexual Politics of Comparative Racialization edited by Grace Kyungwon Hong & Roderick A. Ferguson, Duke University Press Books
- Transgender Employment Experiences: Gendered Perceptions and the Law by Kyla Bender Baird, State University of New York Press
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Nonfiction
- Black Like Us: A Century of Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual African American Fiction compiled by Don Weise, Cleis Press (Now in Paperback!)
- Humiliation by Wayne Kostenbaum, Picador
- Youth in Crisis: 40 Stories on Why Religion-Based Bigotry Against Gay People Must End Now edited by Mitchell Gold & Mindy Drucker, Magnus Books
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Romance
- Half To Death by Robin Alexander, Intaglio Publications
- Harmony by Karis Walsh, Bold Strokes Books
- Getting There by Lyn Denison, Bella Books
- Gloria’s Legacy by Robin Alexander, Intaglio Publications
- Looking for Julie by Jackie Calhoun, Bella Books
- nightrise by Nell Stark and Trinity Tam, Bold Strokes Books
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Erotica
- Boys of Vice City by Zack , Bruno Gmünderglio
- Hot Daddies: Gay Erotic Fiction edited by Richard Labonte, Cleis Press
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Speculative Fiction
- Battle of the Network Zombies by Mark Henry, Kensington (Now in paperback!)
- Cool Side of the Pillow by Gill McKnight, Bold Strokes Books
- Echo Location by Linda Kay Silva, Bella Books
- Lover of Ghosts (Ballots Keep) by Emily Veinglory, Samhain Publishing
- Wilde Stories 2011: The Year’s Best Gay Speculative Fiction edited by Steve Berman, Lethe Press
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Young Adult
- Seasons of the Cold Moon by Dianne C. Stewart, Beanpole Books
- Unwelcome: An Archangel Academy Novel by Michael Griffo, Kenningston Press
