"The primary service we provide is a welcoming and stimulating space where queers can meet and get to know each other; share our work and our ideas with each other; and encourage, inspire, and learn from each other." Read More
Totempole’s frank dealings with sex are not only notable but distinguish it from more well-known early gay novels like The City and the Pillar Read More
Gay pulp novels of the 1960s sell at steep prices these days. Their racy covers have great camp value, and...
Boredom is one thing you definitely won’t experience reading A Room in Chelsea Square. You might even be enlightened. The goal of satire after all is to foster change. Read More
Novels about war, like novels about all-boys schools, are usually as much about male bonding as they are about war or growing up. In this regard, Tatamkhulu Afrika’s Bitter Eden, which is set in a series of WWII POW camps, fits the mold. Read More
Roscoe knows his subject’s work and life thoroughly; he knows that the difference between Wescott’s first-person stories and first-person essays can be paper thin. He very smartly arranged the autobiographical material in A Visit to Priapus chronologically to trace for the newcomer the arc of Wecott’s life, and in the process he also happily satisfies the Wescott lover’s taste for more quality work.
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If you’re asking yourself who this Charles Jackson is, or why you’d want to read anything he wrote, you’re probably not alone. Read More
Gurganus delivers airtight stories told in language as distinctive as you’ll ever want. Read More
Anyone who takes on Marcel Proust: The Collected Poems (Penguin Books) would do well to understand certain approaches to Proust’s...
