Shaun Levin's first novella is an unforgettable portrayal of a relationship between two men, and of a desire for integrity that slowly tears them apart. Seven Sweet Things is a reminder that each time we fall in love we re-invent our codes, our values, and our sources of inspiration. Last night, when my love went back to his girlfriend and I forgot how much he loves me and that I still love him, I comforted myself with the making of a rum-glazed chocolate and coconut cake. So begins Seven Sweet Things, Shaun Levin's brief, sumptuous, and deeply personal tale of love and appetite. The narrator and his lover, Martin, are two South Africans in London. An affair that begins in an internet chatroom takes them further into love than either imagined. Disturbingly honest and intensely erotic, Seven Sweet Things is as much an exploration of love as it is the lovers' exploration of the city. Eking out a living by selling cakes and desserts, the narrator loves reading Plato, sitting on park benches, and feeding his beloved. Each meeting between them is framed by the making, or the promise of a sweet thing. The landscape shifts from hidden archaeological mysteries in London to a fantastical st

Seven Sweet Things

Literature & Fiction

Levin, Shaun

Literary

Bluechrome Pub

A diverse, daring volume, Desperate Remedies brings together dazzling short fictions by Adam Elston, Shaun Levin, Mark Saba, M L Stedman, Paul Blaney and Guy Ware, edited by Rebekah Lattin-Rawstrone. Adam Elston's trio of stories explores the different faces of loss and estrangement. The three stories by M L Stedman draw on the sights, smells and sounds of her native Western Australia. Mark Saba's novella of identity moves artfully between Connecticut, Minnesota, and points more distant in space and time. Paul Blaney's four stories, diverse in voice and form, combine the everyday and the fabulous, deftly negotiating dream and memory, community and the individual's quest for happiness. The first of Guy Ware's two stories is a picaresque tale of love, death and second-hand cars, the second a bitterly humorous portrait of a deeply-troubled man. Shaun Levin's virtuoso study of the poet and painter Isaac Rosenberg brings the collection to a deeply satisfying close. 'This is what short stories are meant to do: show us flamboyantly what the novel can't do and without falling into stylistic games or losing emotional resonance. Diamonds are created by compressing carbon at high temperatures; these stories seem to be created by treating language and form in much the same way. They are diamonds and should be valued as such.' Sara Maitland

Desperate Remedies

Blaney, Paul

Guy Ware

Mark Saba

Adam Elston

ML Stedman

Apis Books

Snapshots of the Boy

Treehouse Press

The first of The Nobile Folios explores Bathers 1917 - 18 by the acclaimed British painter Mark Gertler (1891 - 1939). The painting is set alongside Shaun Levin's original short story 'Trees at a Sanatorium'.

Bathers: A Monongraphic Exploration of Mark Gertler's 1917 - 18 Painting

Arts & Photography

Individual Artists

Sylph Editions

An affair that begins in an Internet chatroom takes the narrator and his lover, Martin, further into love than either could have imagined. Disturbingly honest and intensely erotic, Seven Sweet Things is as much an exploration of love as it is the lovers' exploration of London. Eking out a living by selling cakes and desserts, the narrator loves reading Plato, sitting on park benches, and feeding his beloved. Each meeting between them is framed by the making, or the promise of a sweet thing (chocolate-coconut fudge bars, oatmeal cookies, rum-glazed chocolate cake, meringues). The landscape shifts from hidden archaeological mysteries in London to a fantastical stay in an old house in Yorkshire, and from Clissold Park in North London to Roslyn Glen in Scotland, where the narrator gets invited to prepare extravagant desserts for an aristocratic family.

Seven Sweet Things: A Novella With Recipes

Lethe Pr

Masculine adventure stories meet men's love stories. Hand-picked by a dozen magazine editors from Bear, Classic Bear, American Bear, American Grizzly, Drummer, Men, Indulge, Hippie Dick, and Target magazines, these 17 short stories light up the world of Bears and Cubs emerging as a species within the diverse gay world. 
Comedy mixes light erotica with some serious themes. Young Bear Culture counters the Gay Over-Culture where Bears' potential is often circumscribed by their sexuality of the homomasculine kind, because Bears famously explode stereotypes of gay beauty into new archetypes. These stories show Bears are a fresh new movement in the queer world. Post-plague and post-political-correction, the thousands of men in the Bear Movement demonstrate it's okay for gay men to be masculine again, celebrating all the primary joys and secondary sex characteristics of beards, hairy bodies, and belly-up-to-the-bar-boys sex. 
Tales from the Bear Cult Pantheon of Writers stars Ron Suresha (Teddy Becomes a Bear), Jack Fritscher (Three Bears in a Tub), Simon Sheppard (Bear-Assed), Bob Condron (Santa’s Sackful), Shaun Levin (What a Good Fuck Tastes Like), Charles Eldridge (Hero of the Greeks), Mike White (Stormy Weather), Jay Neal (A Returning Appetite), Bob Vickery (Laying Loggers), Furr (Down ‘n’ Dirty), and John Coriolan (Blair’s Lair). The 18 pages of new G-rated photographs by Palm Drive Video reference photographer Chris Nelson's best-selling coffee-table photo book, The Bear Cult with its introduction by famed British cultural critic, Edward Lucie-Smith.

Tales from the Bear Cult: Best Bear Stories from the Best Magazines

FRITSCHER, JACK

Condron, Bob

Sheppard, Simon

Coriolan, John

Vickery, Bob

Hemry, Mark

Neal, Jay

Eldridge, Charles

Suresha, Ron

United States

Palm Drive Publishing

Alone with a Man in a Room is a collection of fiction and creative-nonfiction pieces written and published in various anthologies and journals over the past 20 years. Pieces about love, obsession, promiscuity, paranoia, and desire. Set in bedrooms, hotels, bathhouses, and public parks, in London, Tel Aviv, New York, and Sitges.\nfrom the Introduction 
Many of these pieces have been with me for so long I can’t remember whether they’re fact or fiction. Most are probably a combination of the two. I remember the time and place of their conception: those sweltering afternoons in London writing in an overgrown Abney Park Cemetery, a trip to Lille for writing and sex, the holiday in Almería on my way to Fundación Valparaíso for a writing retreat. Some pieces have been incomplete for so long, they’ll remain in a state of becoming forever. This book is a love letter to London and Tel Aviv, a stock-taking of work that has accumulated over the past twenty years. It’s a farewell card and a thank-you note, a restrospective of stories and essays written in the first twenty years of this new century. (Shaun Levin, Madrid 2021)

Alone with a Man in a Room

Kiss and Tell Press

This notebook will steer you through writing a book on any culinary subject, whether it's a cookbook, a food memoir, a book about a specific ingredient, or a sumptuous novel. With prompts and activities, suggestions on structuring your book and enough blank pages in which to write it.

The Writing Notebook: Food: The Notebook for Your Next Book

Graphic Design

Laurence King Publishing

This notebook will help you unravel and bring to life any family drama. Here you'll find the inspiration to explore your own ancestry, write a vast family saga spanning generations, or tell the story of a wildly dysfunctional family. It will take you to surprising places and spark your imagination.

The Writing Notebook: Family: The Notebook for Your Next Book

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