The white crack: Poems

Flint, Vivekan Don

Beautiful Dreamer Press

Poems about illusion, discovery, and the wonderful terror of life.

Maya

At twelve years old, Paul has withdrawn from his school, his family, and even his own body. He barely connects with reality. Then he meets Hal, a mercurial kid who harbors guilt about his brother's arrest for a violent home invasion. Angry and lonely in different ways, the boys form a bond, first by fighting and then through a lasting, but unequal, affection-one constantly tested by Hal's risky behavior.? Their exploits include a shoplifting scheme that goes terribly wrong, a fall while playing a dangerous game, and a police raid on a gay bar. As Newark in the late 1960s decays around them, Hal's schemes escalate, ending in a botched drug deal that leads to deadly violence.? Interwoven with the boys' adventures are scenes from Paul's dysfunctional family life with his acerbic mother and immature father, and the seedy and sometimes dangerous men willing to take advantage of boys lost to their families and hungry for true affection.? Always There by Leaving is rich in incident and biting observations about class, family, sexual difference, urban decay, and passionate friendships.

Always There by Leaving

Dellaguzzo, Lou

Teen & Young Adult

The stories, poems, and essays in this collection have a single common element uniting their wide range of literary styles and genres: they all spring directly from photographs of go-go boys. The ideal go-go boy is the perfect erotic object. We imagine him as lost or broken so that we might rescue him, or as potent and aggressive so that we might be the focus of his desire. But the images captured here suggest deeper, more complex realities. These dancers are whimsical, haunting, satiric, playful, ominous. They are not objects, not icons, but stories waiting to be told. Not Just Another Pretty Face plays with the interface of projections: what these young men project in their poses and expressions, and what we project on them in return. It explores assumptions, prejudices, fantasies, and revelations. It looks beyond the archetype, beneath the skin.

Not Just Another Pretty Face

Arts & Photography

Photography & Video

The stories, poems, and essays in this collection have a single element in common that unites their wide range of literary styles and genres: they all spring directly from photographs of go-go boys. An ideal go-go boy is the perfect erotic object: slick, vacant, tantalizing, charged. We may imagine him as lost or broken so that we might rescue him, or as potent and agressive so that we might be the focus of his desire. But the images captured here suggest deeper, more complex realities. These dancers are whimsical, haunting, satiric, playful, ominous. They are not objects, not icons, but stories waiting to be told. Not Just Another Pretty Face plays with the interface of projections: what these young men are projecting in their poses and expressions, and what we are projecting on them in return. It explores assumptions, prejudices, fantasies, and revelations. It looks beyond the archetype, beneath the skin. This color edition shows the photographs in all their rich detail as the authors saw them when picking the images for their inspiration.

Literature & Fiction

Erotica

High school senior Jim Wallace faces the approaching Christmas holidays with a mixture of hope and dread. This could be the week he and his girlfriend Liz finally have sex, putting to rest any lingering doubts Jim has about what kind of guy he really is. But then Pat Baxter, a neighbor, asks him to help out in his bookstore during the holiday rush, and Jim starts making new connections - and rediscovering an old one.

Wallaçonia

Parenting & Relationships

Pratt, David

Parenting

The central characters in Gay Zoo Day: Tales of Seeking and Discovery are all searching for something more than what life has handed them. They trace their paths through landscapes of love, death, violence, ambition, and sex. Some seek deliberately, some stumble blindly, but all find more than what they were looking for. Each story takes a queer approach to a familiar genre: an adventure in space, a cowboy romance in Panama, a ghost story in upstate New York, a revenge drama in colonial Kenya. Gay Zoo Day uses the map of the world to explore the map of the heart.

Gay Zoo Day: Tales of Seeking and Discovery

Mike McClelland

Short Stories & Anthologies

Every writer needs a voice. For Derick Sweetwater, it's usually someone else's. Hoping to shed his mantle as ghostwriter to the stars, Derick escapes to Provincetown to work on a novel--only to land his biggest client yet. Clive Morgan, a studly movie star with a secret, hires him to write his autobiography and promises to "tell all." But a creepy New Age cult has its own designs on Clive, and Derick's new boyfriend has a secret of his own that tests his commitment to honesty. In Lewis DeSimone's witty, fast-paced satire, the literary world collides with Hollywood mores, Manhattan drag queens, and the occasional ghost--all as Derick tries to sort out his own life while Channeling Morgan.

Channeling Morgan

Lewis DeSimone

Humor & Satire

"It's people like Mama and me, I guess, who like to make the regular happenings in our town--like what happened to Joshua and David--sound like myth. There are those who doubt the veracity of my words. But I know. I was there."
So begins the voice of Eric Gottlund in Jim Provenzano's latest novel, Now I'm Here, as he begins his tale of how two boys discovered, lost, and then found each other again in the small town of Serene, Ohio, in the 1970s and '80s. It is both pointed and poignant. As the town's history is slowly erased by fading memories and encroaching suburbia, Eric brings back to life the two friends who showed him what true courage is. Fighting religious intolerance, small-mindedness, "rehabilitation therapy," the lure of fame, and the heartbreak of AIDS, the two boys grow into men before our eyes. And through their love of each other and rock'n'roll--and the English rock group Queen in particular--Joshua and David breathe life back into their home town, if only for a while.

Now I'm Here

Provenzano, Jim

Genre Fiction

Victor Regina should be perfectly happy in New York City. His novels are best sellers, he has a kick-ass agent, and the upcoming Black Party at the exclusive Club Flamingo promises to be a cornucopia of gay desire. But New York is hard. The city is gripped by a winter that won't quit, and although he has plenty of dishy friends, there is no lover in the picture. When his agent calls with an offer from Hollywood to adapt his latest novel, Justify My Sins, for a famous director, he jumps at the chance.
In "El Lay," the sun is warm, the food is fantastic, the men are plentiful and eager. It's all so easy. So easy, in fact, that Victor begins to suspect there's nothing quite real about it--not the quick affairs, not the luxurious cars and ostentatious architecture, and certainly not the film script or scenario or treatment or whatever the hell it is everyone expects him to write. He begins to long for NYC, hard but real.
Noted names and events of the 1970s, '80s, and '90s intermingle with personal triumphs and private tragedies in this hilarious roman à clef with a heart. Felice Picano exposes the clash between celebrity and integrity, the rivalry between love and lust, while showcasing the grittiness of Manhattan and the voluptuous of Hollywood. Through disastrous production meetings, steamy sex clubs, and encounters with friends who grow old, or strange, or both, Victor tries not once, not twice, but three times to find authenticity and contentment in a life that, while perhaps never fully justified, is fully lived.

Justify My Sins: A Hollywood Novel in Three Acts

Picano, Felice

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The white crack: Poems

Maya

Always There by Leaving

Not Just Another Pretty Face

Not Just Another Pretty Face

Wallaçonia

Gay Zoo Day: Tales of Seeking and Discovery

Channeling Morgan

Now I'm Here

Justify My Sins: A Hollywood Novel in Three Acts