Mr. Grey takes us from his early days as a child actor at the Cleveland Playhouse through his years of struggle as a nightclub performer, film and television actor, to his big break on the Great White Way Read More
Sensitively written, Lansky’s memoir grapples with his demons—his parents' divorce, his infatuation with the glamorous life of New York City, and his reliance on sex and drugs to mask his self-hatred and low esteem Read More
Philip Sparrow Tells All show Samuel Steward’s development as a writer and a gay sophisticate; speaking on a wider range of topics—bodybuilding, cryptography, psychiatry, espionage, opera, pet cemeteries, Gertrude Stein, Chicago, and Paris Read More
This is an excellent well-researched biography that recreates the tumultuous years of an artist’s life who refused compromise from her convictions Read More
Brian Teare’s Companion Grasses (Omnidawn Publishing) is “both field guide and autobiography, containing details of place and season as well...
In “Broken Kingdom,” a poem from Peter Covino’s collection of poems, The Right Place to Jump, Covino ends with the...
Richard Blanco’s Looking for The Gulf Motel (University of Pittsburgh Press) is a compelling series of poems that explore Blanco’s Cuban heritage and his journey from adolescence to manhood... Read More
As David Lehman suggests in his foreword to The Best American Poetry 2012, Mark Doty collects a wide variety of poems that have a mysterious and “uncanny” quality, poems which are almost haunted by the “spirit in the dark.” Read More
Towards the end of Walter Holland’s book Circuit (Chelsea Station Editions) a few sonnets suddenly arrange what had been a...
