Jeff Mann Southern Tier Editions HARRINGTON PARK PRESS (An imprint of Howarth Press Inc.) ISBN 1 - 56023-430-X This is a collection of autobiographical essays by Jeff Mann, now a lecturer in LGBT Literature, Southern [US] literature … [Read more...]

Out-take; upstart (January 1997) Cassells Queer Companion William Stewart Cassell This large, fat, 278 pages book, claims in a subtitle to be a Dictionary of Lesbian and Gay Life and Culture.  Stewart, in his Introduction rightly backs … [Read more...]

The World of Serge Diaghilev Charles Spencer Penguin ISBN 0 14 00.5155 4 This edition was published in the US in 1979.  The first publication (US / UK) was in '74.  The cover has an image derived from an illustration by a chap called … [Read more...]

Rude Britannia Tim Fountain W&N (Weidenfeld & Nicholson) ISBN978 0 279 85262 9 Tim Fountain's one… (um) person… show Sex Addict caused uproar in the early noughties.  He writes that it upset Right and Left.  He only quotes … [Read more...]

Taschen Text by Bruce Benderson ISBN 978-3-8365-1452-1   This very large – or tall – book, is not entirely user-friendly. But if you have a taste for what might be called the Higher Sissiness, you won't be too concerned. All the … [Read more...]

American Studies Mark Merlis   Subtitled 'a novel', this is something of a biography in disguise.  The most substantial character, Tom Slater, is based on FO Mattiessen.  He was a major English (literature) scholar.  He committed … [Read more...]

Brian Lacey Wordwell £20.00   The subtitle of this well-produced book (purchased in Gay's the Word) is Homosexuality in Irish History.  It is a chronicle of nearly all the information one would wish for.  Some of it is pretty … [Read more...]

Boys In The City Paul Reitz Bruno Gmünder ISBN 978-3-86787-139-6   The Introduction (by Alek and Steph, alekandsteph.com) promises "uncompromising male beauty… from every corner of the world".  This male beauty is set in the … [Read more...]

SHARE YOUR STORY Gay and Lesbian Experiences of Church Edited by the Revd Mervyn Kingston Publisher[s]: Changing Attitude Ireland & Church of Ireland Chaplaincy, TCD (Trinity College, Dublin)   The various experiences of … [Read more...]

THREADS Jayne Threads © 2008   This wee book has 87 pages of text, and vii - meaning seven - of twiddly bits, Intro., Special Thanks, and Foreword by an Important Person I haven't heard of.  It is a series of small essays - short … [Read more...]