Abysmal. Harpers' ugly purple screen and tacky lavender windows are your only wink that the nonfiction book Very Recent History: An Entirely Factual Account of a Year (c. AD 2009) in a Large City [Kindle] by Choire Sicha follows a group of young gay men in NYC. Yet again the jacket copy is entirely degayed. The photo looks like any outdated business book on the remainders table.
Does MLR's cover for Barry Brennessel's Reunion [Kindle] convey that it's a linked collection of literary fiction including the Pushcart nominated "Shin-Kimba Park," and is the follow-up to his much-honored novel The Celestial [Kindle], which won a ForeWord gold medal and was a finalist for a Pacific Northwest award, a Next Generation Indie book award, and a Lammy? Or might the huge moon, scary trees, and lavender mist suggest elements of the supernatural, like a gay Twilight? Try Brennessel's Dana Award-nominated story "Nagasaki" in Polari Journal.
Awesome. Neither pink, nor purple, nor rainbow! David Levithan gave his new novel a gay title so in your face -- Two Boys Kissing [Kindle] -- it could have stood on its own, but his publisher (Knopf) goes all the way and gives it a full bleed photo of a queer liplock. It's inspired by the actual gay teen world-record-setting kissing marathon, but, more daringly, it's narrated by a Greek chorus of a previous generation of gay men who died of aids.
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