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The Abinger Edition of E. M. Forsterby E. M. Forster, Oliver StallybrassISBN 0713156511 (0-7131-5651-1)
Hardcover, Edward Arnold
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The Actor's Guide to Murderby Rick CoppISBN 0758204957 (0-7582-0495-7)
Hardcover, Kensington Publishing Corporation
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Ambidextrousby Felice PicanoISBN 0452263158 (0-452-26315-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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And Tango Makes Threeby Peter Parnell, Justin Richardson, Henry ColeISBN 0689878451 (0-689-87845-1)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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Anthology of Gay Erotic Writingby John Preston, Michael LowenthalISBN 0452272521 (0-452-27252-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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Bourbon Street Bluesby Greg HerrenISBN 0758202121 (0-7582-0212-1)
Hardcover, Kensington Pub Corp
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The Boy Who Picked the Bullets Upby Charles NelsonISBN 0688006442 (0-688-00644-2)
Hardcover, Morrow
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Brokeback Mountain: Story to Screenplayby Annie Proulx, Larry McMurtry, Diana OssanaISBN 0743294165 (0-7432-9416-5)
Softcover, Scribner
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Brokeback Mountain: Story to Screenplay'Book summary:Annie Proulx has written some of the most original and brilliant short stories in contemporary literature, and for many readers and reviewers, Brokeback Mountain is her masterpiece.
Brokeback Mountain was originally published in The New Yorker. It won the National Magazine Award. It also won an O. Henry Prize. Included in this volume is Annie Proulx's haunting story about the difficult, dangerous love affair between a ranch hand and a rodeo cowboy. Also included is the celebrated screenplay for the major motion picture "Brokeback Mountain," written by Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana. All three writers have contributed essays on the process of adapting this critically acclaimed story for film.
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The Carnivorous Lambby Agustin Gomez-ArcosISBN 0452258200 (0-452-25820-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Chromeby George NadarISBN 0515048461 (0-515-04846-1)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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Coming Out under Fireby Allan BerubeISBN 0743210719 (0-7432-1071-9)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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Coming Out Under Fire: The History of Gay Men and Women in World War Twoby Allan BerubeISBN 0452265983 (0-452-26598-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Commitment: Love, Sex, Marriage, and My Familyby Dan SavageISBN 0452287634 (0-452-28763-4)
Softcover, Plume
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There is no hotter issue than gay marriage in the culture-war debate, and Dan Savage, one of Americas most outspoken and beloved columnists, takes it on and makes it personal in this rollicking memoir of coming to terms with the very public act of marriage. What he discovers will make readersgay or straight, right or left, single or marriedhowl with laughter as well as rethink their notions of marriage and all that it entails. [via]
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Cosmic Coincidences: Dark Matter, Mankind and Anthropic Cosmologyby John Gribbin, Martin ReesISBN 0553057308 (0-553-05730-8)
Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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Desert Sonsby Mark KendrickISBN 0595191304 (0-595-19130-4)
Softcover, Iuniverse Inc
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Entries from a Hot Pink Notebookby Todd D. Brown, Julie RubensteinISBN 0671890840 (0-671-89084-0)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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The Family of Max Desirby Robert FerroISBN 0525241973 (0-525-24197-3)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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Flesh and the Word 2 : An Anthology of Erotic Writingby John PrestonISBN 0452270871 (0-452-27087-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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Forgetting Elenaby Edmund WhiteISBN 067975573X (0-679-75573-X)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafeby Fannie FlaggISBN 0679744959 (0-679-74495-9)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Frontiersby Michael JensenISBN 0671027212 (0-671-02721-2)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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The Gay 100: A Ranking of the Most Influential Gay Men and Lesbians, Past and Presentby Paul RussellISBN 0758201001 (0-7582-0100-1)
Softcover, Kensington Pub Corp
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General Principles of Play Directionby Alice Garwood, Gilmort BrownISBN 0573690103 (0-573-69010-3)
Hardcover, Samuel French Inc Plays
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Go Tell It on the Mountainby James BaldwinISBN 0679601546 (0-679-60154-6)
Hardcover, Modern Library
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Baldwin lays down the terrible symmetries of these two blighted lives as the ironic context for John's dark night of the soul. When day dawns, John believes himself saved, but his creator makes it clear that this salvation arises as much from blindness as revelation: "He was filled with a joy, a joy unspeakable, whose roots, though he would not trace them on this new day of his life, were nourished by the wellspring of a despair not yet discovered."
Though it was hailed at publication for its groundbreaking use of black idiom, what is most striking about Go Tell It on the Mountain today is its structure and its scope. In peeling back the layers of these damaged lives, Baldwin dramatizes the story of the great black migration from rural South to urban North. "Behind them was the darkness," Baldwin writes of Gabriel and Elizabeth's lost generation, "nothing but the darkness, and all around them destruction, and before them nothing but the fire--a bastard people, far from God, singing and crying in the wilderness!" This is Baldwin's music--a music in which rhapsody is rooted anguish--and there is none finer in American literature. --David Laskin [via]
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Greek Homosexualityby Kenneth James DoverISBN 0674362705 (0-674-36270-5)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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Hello Darling, Are You Working?by Rupert Everett, Frances Crichton StuartISBN 0688117864 (0-688-11786-4)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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Hold Tight: A Novelby Christopher BramISBN 0452262267 (0-452-26226-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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Homosexuality & Civilizationby Louis CromptonISBN 0674022335 (0-674-02233-5)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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Hornitoby Mike AlboISBN 0688174361 (0-688-17436-1)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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How Long Has This Been Going On?by Ethan MorddenISBN 0679415297 (0-679-41529-7)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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In another Part of the Forest: An Anthology of Gay Short Fictionby Alberto Manguel, Craig StephensonISBN 051788156X (0-517-88156-X)
Softcover, Crown Publishing Group
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In Memory of Angel Clareby Christopher BramISBN 0452264340 (0-452-26434-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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Jack of Heartsby Joseph HansenISBN 0452273439 (0-452-27343-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Jeffreyby Paul RudnickISBN 0452276144 (0-452-27614-4)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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Job's Yearby Joseph HansenISBN 0452261171 (0-452-26117-1)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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Justice at Riskby John Morgan WilsonISBN 055357860X (0-553-57860-X)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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King of Cats: A Life in Five Novellasby Blake FrainaISBN 0595307566 (0-595-30756-6)
Softcover, Iuniverse Inc
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Landscapeby Matthew StadlerISBN 0684191857 (0-684-19185-7)
Hardcover, Daedalus Books
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Leave Myself Behindby Bart YatesISBN 0758203497 (0-7582-0349-7)
Softcover, Kensington Pub Corp
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The Limits of Justiceby John Morgan WilsonISBN 0553578618 (0-553-57861-8)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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Making History : A Novelby Stephen FryISBN 0679459553 (0-679-45955-3)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Making History : A Novel'Book summary:Those of us who have already discovered Stephen Fry know him as the brilliant British comedian behind TV series such as Jeeves & Wooster and Blackadder, and the author of two enormously funny novels, The Liar and The Hippopotamus. But his new film (in which he plays Oscar Wilde) and his new novel (this one) represent a somewhat alarming departure from his previous work: They're more serious. Though humor is still an essential ingredient of both, Fry's fans are finally getting to witness the emotional depth that this brilliant polymath usually keeps hidden.
In Making History, Fry has bitten off a rather meaty chunk by tackling an at first deceptively simple premise: What if Hitler had never been born? An unquestionable improvement, one would reason--and so an earnest history grad student and an aging German physicist idealistically undertake to bring this about by preventing Adolf's conception. And with their success is launched a brave new world that is in some ways better than ours--but in most ways even worse. Fry's experiment in history makes for his most ambitious novel yet, and his most affecting. His first book to be set mostly in America, it is a thriller with a funny streak, a futuristic fantasy based on one of mankind's darkest realities. It is, in every sense, a story of our times. [via]More editions of Making History : A Novel:
Man to Man: Gay Couples in Americaby Charles SilversteinISBN 0688008038 (0-688-00803-8)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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The Masterby Colm ToibinISBN 0743250419 (0-7432-5041-9)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Master'Book summary:Like Michael Cunningham in "The Hours, " Colm Toibin captures the extraordinary mind and heart of a great writer. Brilliant and profoundly moving, "The Master" tells the story of Henry James, a man born into one of America's first intellectual families two decades before the Civil War. James left his country to live in Paris, Rome, Venice, and London among privileged artists and writers.
In stunningly resonant prose, Toibin captures the loneliness and longing, the hope and despair of a man who never married, never resolved his sexual identity, and whose forays into intimacy inevitably failed him and those he tried to love. The emotional intensity of Toibin's portrait of James is riveting. Time and again, James, a master of psychological subtlety in his fiction, proves blind to his own heart and incapable of reconciling his dreams of passion with his own fragility.
Toibin is "a great and humanizing writer" who describes complex relationships in "supple, beautifully modulated prose" ("The Washington Post Book World"). In "The Master, " he has written his most ambitious and heartbreaking novel, an extraordinarily inventive encounter with a character at the cusp of the modern age, elusive to his own friends and even family, yet astonishingly vivid in these pages. [via]
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The Misfits: Library Editionby James HoweISBN 0689839561 (0-689-83956-1)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Misfits: Library Edition'Book summary:Kids who get called the worst names oftentimes find each other. That's how it was with us. Skeezie Tookis and Addie Carle and Joe Bunch and me. We call ourselves the Gang of Five, but there are only four of us. We do it to keep people on their toes. Make 'em wonder. Or maybe we do it because we figure that there's one more kid out there who's going to need a gang to be a part of. A misfit, like us.
Skeezie, Addie, Joe, and Bobby -- they've been friends forever. They laugh together, have lunch together, and get together once a week at the Candy Kitchen to eat ice cream and talk about important issues. Life isn't always fair, but at least they have each other -- and all they really want to do is survive the seventh grade.
That turns out to be more of a challenge than any of them had anticipated. Starting with Addie's refusal to say the Pledge of Allegiance and her insistence on creating a new political party to run for student council, the Gang of Five is in for the ride of their lives. Along the way they will learn about politics and popularity, love and loss, and what it means to be a misfit. After years of getting by, they are given the chance to stand up and be seen -- not as the one-word jokes their classmates have tried to reduce them to, but as the full, complicated human beings they are just beginning to discover they truly are. [via]
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My Father and Myselfby J. R. AckerleyISBN 0671656759 (0-671-65675-9)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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Naked Lunchby William S. BurroughsISBN 0613706188 (0-613-70618-8)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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Nights in Arubaby Andrew HolleranISBN 0452263956 (0-452-26395-6)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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On Picking Fruitby Arthur WootenISBN 0595346073 (0-595-34607-3)
Softcover, Iuniverse Inc
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Out in the World: Gay and Lesbian Life from Buenos Aires to Bangkokby Neil MillerISBN 0679745513 (0-679-74551-3)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Out of the Past: Gay and Lesbian History from 1869 to the Presentby Neil MillerISBN 0679749888 (0-679-74988-8)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Perks of Being a Wallflowerby Stephen ChboskyISBN 0671027344 (0-671-02734-4)
Softcover, Pocket Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Perks of Being a Wallflower'Book summary:What is most notable about this funny, touching, memorable first novel from Stephen Chbosky is the resounding accuracy with which the author captures the voice of a boy teetering on the brink of adulthood. Charlie is a freshman. And while's he's not the biggest geek in the school, he is by no means popular. He's a wallflower--shy and introspective, and intelligent beyond his years, if not very savvy in the social arts. We learn about Charlie through the letters he writes to someone of undisclosed name, age, and gender, a stylistic technique that adds to the heart-wrenching earnestness saturating this teen's story. Charlie encounters the same struggles that many kids face in high school--how to make friends, the intensity of a crush, family tensions, a first relationship, exploring sexuality, experimenting with drugs--but he must also deal with his best friend's recent suicide. Charlie's letters take on the intimate feel of a journal as he shares his day-to-day thoughts and feelings:
I walk around the school hallways and look at the people. I look at the teachers and wonder why they're here. If they like their jobs. Or us. And I wonder how smart they were when they were fifteen. Not in a mean way. In a curious way. It's like looking at all the students and wondering who's had their heart broken that day, and how they are able to cope with having three quizzes and a book report due on top of that. Or wondering who did the heart breaking. And wondering why.
With the help of a teacher who recognizes his wisdom and intuition, and his two friends, seniors Samantha and Patrick, Charlie mostly manages to avoid the depression he feels creeping up like kudzu. When it all becomes too much, after a shocking realization about his beloved late Aunt Helen, Charlie retreats from reality for awhile. But he makes it back in due time, ready to face his sophomore year and all that it may bring. Charlie, sincerely searching for that feeling of "being infinite," is a kindred spirit to the generation that's been slapped with the label X. --Brangien Davis [via]More editions of Perks of Being a Wallflower:
A Place at the Table: The Gay Individual in American Societyby Bruce BawerISBN 0671894390 (0-671-89439-0)
Softcover, Touchstone Books
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Pretty Thingsby Cynthia MacAdamsISBN 0525475222 (0-525-47522-2)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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Querelle of Brestby Jean GenetISBN 0571203671 (0-571-20367-1)
Softcover, Faber & Faber Ltd
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Rainbow Roadby Alex Sanchez, Jack LouthISBN 0689865651 (0-689-86565-1)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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Sea of Tranquillityby Paul RussellISBN 0452273110 (0-452-27311-0)
Softcover, Plume
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Separate Peaceby John KnowlesISBN 055323224X (0-553-23224-X)
Softcover, Bantam Pr Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Separate Peace'Book summary:Set at a boys' boarding school in New England during the early years of World War II, A Separate Peace is a harrowing and luminous parable of the dark side of adolescence. Gene is a lonely, introverted intellectual. Phineas is a handsome, taunting, daredevil athlete. What happens between the two friends one summer, like the war itself, banishes the innocence of these boys and their world.
A bestseller for more than thirty years, A Separate Peace is John Knowles's crowning achievement and an undisputed American classic. [via]
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Separate Peaceby Christopher R. ReaskeISBN 0671008897 (0-671-00889-7)
Hardcover, Pearson Education, Limited
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Spontaneous Combustion/30841by David B. FeinbergISBN 0670838136 (0-670-83813-6)
Hardcover, Daedalus Books
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Tales of Neveryonby Samuel R. DelanyISBN 0553228420 (0-553-22842-0)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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Telegraph Daysby Larry McMurtryISBN 0743250788 (0-7432-5078-8)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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Nobody writes better about the West than Larry McMurtry, and in Telegraph Days he offers the big novel of Western gunfighters that people have been hoping for years he would write.
When Nellie Courtright and her brother Jackson are unexpectedly orphaned by their father's suicide, they make their way to the nearby town of Rita Blanca. Once there, Jackson manages to secure a job as a sheriff's deputy, while the ever resourceful Nellie becomes the town's telegrapher.
Together, they inadvertently put Rita Blanca on the map when young Jackson succeeds in shooting down all six of the ferocious Yazee brothers in a gunfight that brings him lifelong fame but which he can never repeat because his success came purely out of luck. Nellie almost conquers the heart of Buffalo Bill, the man she will love most in her long life, and goes to meet, and witness the exploits of Billy the Kid, the Earp brothers, and Doc Holliday.
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Totally Joeby James HoweISBN 0689839588 (0-689-83958-8)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Totally Joe'Book summary:Meet Joe Bunch. Lovable misfit and celebrity wannabe from Paintbrush Falls, New York. Like his longtime best friends Addie, Skeezie, and Bobby, Joe's been called names all his life. So when he's given the assignment to write his alphabiography -- the story of his life from A to Z -- Joe has his doubts. This whole thing could be serious ammunition for bullying if it falls into the wrong hands.
But Joe discovers there's more to the assignment -- and his life -- than meets the eye. Especially when he gets to the letter C, which stands for Colin Briggs, the coolest guy in the seventh grade (seriously) -- and Joe's secret boyfriend.
By the time Joe gets to the letter Z, he's pretty much bared his soul about everything. And Joe's okay with that because he likes who he is. He's Totally Joe, and that's the best thing for him to be.
Here is an exuberant, funny, totally original story of one boy's coming out -- and coming-of-age. [via]
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The Trouble With Normal: Sex, Politics, and the Ethics of Queer Lifeby Michael WarnerISBN 0674004418 (0-674-00441-8)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Trouble With Normal: Sex, Politics, and the Ethics of Queer Life'Book summary:The Trouble with Normal argues passionately against same-sex marriage, but here's the twist: not because it denigrates the institution of marriage, but because it perpetuates the cultural shame attached to sex between consenting but unmarried adults. When gay men and lesbians try to claim that they're just like "normal folk," Michael Warner writes, they do a profound disservice to other queer folk who choose not to live in monogamous or matrimonial bliss and who believe that the solution to being stigmatized for your sexuality is not to pretend it doesn't exist. Same-sex marriage advocates, he continues, often seem to be willfully blind to the cultural ramifications of their position, viewing marriage as "an intensified and deindividuated form of coming out." They don't seem to realize that if society validates their relationships, other types of relationships will by necessity be invalidated. (He also makes a strong case for the fight against sexual shame's being more than a queer issue, citing 1998's presidential impeachment crisis: "[Bill] Clinton, certainly, was not the first to discover how hard it is in this culture to assert any dignity when you stand exposed as a sexual being.") Extending his analysis, Warner shows how the championing of married gays and lesbians as "normal" is part of the same cultural climate that leads to "quality of life" crackdowns against queercentric businesses--as is already underway in New York City--and a deliberate sabotage of safer-sex education that puts millions of Americans at continued risk of exposure to HIV. Warner's precise, straightforward argument is enlivened by numerous sharp zingers, as when he accuses Andrew Sullivan of "breath[ing] new and bitchy life into Jesuitical pieties" about sexual morality. The Trouble with Normal is a bold, provocative book that forces readers to reconsider what sexual liberation really means. --Ron Hogan [via]
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True Enoughby Stephen McCauleyISBN 0743444035 (0-7434-4403-5)
Softcover, Washington Square Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'True Enough'Book summary:New York writer Desmond Sullivan doesn't believe in marriage. His five happy years with his lover Russell haven't fundamentally challenged Desmond's conviction that, at best, true love is "an acute form of tolerance." He's sexually restless, and looking forward to his four-month teaching stint in Boston as an attempt to regain some of his own identity and try to complete the biography he's been writing. Jane Cody, a Boston public television producer, is similarly disenchanted with her marriage to a clumsy, kindly professor of English. Lately, Jane has been meeting her ex-husband Dale for drinks and coffee, although she's well aware that he's a jerk. With so much going wrong in her life, it strikes Jane that she and Desmond could collaborate on a series of documentaries, salvaging both of their foundering work lives. A page-turner, not by virtue of its plot, but because of Stephen McCauley's utterly engaging narrative voice, True Enough reprises some of the themes of his earlier novel, The Object of My Affection. It also has the virtues of a good Woody Allen film: Great comic lines and brilliant social observation among a small circle of successful friends. And like so much of Allen's work, the subject is married love: Fidelity and betrayal in their many guises. A funny, well-developed novel with surprising emotional depth. --Regina Marler [via]
The Vesuvius Club: A Bit of Fluffby Mark GatissISBN 0743283945 (0-7432-8394-5)
Softcover, Scribner
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Vice Versa: Bisexuality and the Eroticism of Everyday Lifeby Marjorie GarberISBN 0684824124 (0-684-82412-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Vice Versa: Bisexuality and the Eroticism of Everyday Life'Book summary:Despite the flood of sexuality theory and queer cultural studies in 20th-century academia, bisexuality--and the many questions and problems surrounding it--has been little considered. In Vice Versa, Marjorie Garber, director of the Center for Literary and Cultural Studies at Harvard University, takes on this enormous project with refreshing academic rigor and compelling enthusiasm. Covering cultural influences from antiquity through early psychoanalysis to such recent provocateurs as Geraldo Rivera and Susie Bright, Garber calls into question the basic underpinnings of even the most radical views of human sexuality. She suggests that bisexuality is "not just another sexual orientation but rather a sexuality that undoes sexual orientation as a category," and leads us through the ensuing ruckus with wit and grace.
Vice Versa offers personal accounts, clinical studies, and analysis from every possible camp to demonstrate Garber's thesis that bisexuality as an idea and an experience "disappears" or is erased from our discussions of sexuality at every turn through the normalizing (not to mention limiting) influence of the terms of the discussion itself. Her call to recognize bisexuality as not only valid but deeply transgressive--and therefore useful--in our culture is urgent and marked by a great affection for her subjects, from Freud to Madonna. "One of the key purposes of studying bisexuality is not to get people to 'admit' they 'are' bisexual," she says, "but rather to restore to them and the people they have loved the full, complex, and often contradictory stories of their lives." --Jessica Peterson [via]
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War Boyby Kief HillsberyISBN 0688171419 (0-688-17141-9)
Hardcover, HarperCollins Publishers
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Where the Boys Areby William J. MannISBN 0758203276 (0-7582-0327-6)
Softcover, Kensington Pub Corp
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Wonder Boysby Michael ChabonISBN 0679415882 (0-679-41588-2)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Written on the Bodyby Jeanette WintersonISBN 0679744479 (0-679-74447-9)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Written on the Body'Book summary:The most beguilingly seductive novel to date from the author of The Passion and Sexing the Cherry. Winterson chronicles the consuming affair between the narrator, who is given neither name nor gender, and the beloved, a complex and confused married woman. "At once a love story and a philosophical meditation."--New York Times Book Review. [via]
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