Recent Highlights and Most Anticipated Fall Books

    

No, the site is not returning.

Forever Butt The very best of the brilliant gay magazine's formative years, 2001-2014.

June Third novel by Gerbrand Bakker, author of the IMPAC winner The Twin and the IFFP winner The Detour.

On the Move: A Life [and Kindle] Memoir by neurologist Oliver Sacks, whose mother called him "an abomination" when he came out.

The Green Road [and Kindle] Booker winner Anne Enright's novel about a disapproving Irish mother's four grown children, one of whom is gay and lived in NYC in the 90s.

H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald. Reviewers skimmed over the gay aspects of this hybrid memoir of grief / guide to hawking / bio of closeted sadist TH White.

A Place Called Winter by Patrick Gale. Straddles EM Forster's elegant, repressed Edwardians and the hardluck Canadian settlers of Alice Munro's historical gems like "A Wilderness Station." 

Sweetland [and Kindle] by Michael Crummey. An amazing, funny, sad novel about the people of a remote, failing island in Newfoundland. It's appalling that a novel this good has been so ignored.

Dangerous When Wet Scary-funny memoir by the incomparable Jamie Brickhouse.

    

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Hoover's War on Gays: Exposing the FBI's "Sex Deviates" Program by Douglas Charles. August 15

Gay Directors, Gay Films?: Pedro Almodóvar, Terence Davies, Todd Haynes, Gus Van Sant, John Waters by Emanuel Levy. August 25

No House to Call My Home nonfiction by Ryan Berg. August 25

Worlds Apart more memoir from David Plante. August 25

Alexander McQueen: Blood Beneath the Skin by Andrew Wilson. September 1

Queer Brown Voices: Personal Narratives of Latina/o LGBT Activism anthology. September 1

I Can Give You Anything But Love memoir by Gary Indiana. September 8

LThe Gay Revolution: The Story of the Struggle by Lillian Faderman. September 8

Wonders of the Invisible World Knopf YA by Christopher Barzak. September 8

Mouthquake by Daniel Allen Cox. September 15

Wilberforce: A Novel by H.S. Cross. September 15

**After the Parade: A Novel by Lori Ostlund. September 22

Romaine Brooks: A Life by Cassandra Langer. September 22

Under the Udala Trees: A Novel by Chinelo Okparanta. September 22

I Must Be Living Twice: New and Selected Poems 1975 - 2014 by Eileen Myles. September 29

Then Comes Marriage: United States V. Windsor and the Defeat of Doma by Roberta Kaplan. October 5

**Don't Tell Me to Wait: How the Fight for Gay Rights Changed America and Transformed Obama'’s Presidency by Kerry Eleveld. October 6

M Train by Patti Smith. October 6 

Empire of Self: A Life of Gore Vidal by Jay Parnini. October 13

**Immaculate Blue: A Novel by Paul Russell. October 13

A Wild Swan by Michael Cunningham. Another re-imagining of fairy tales. November 10

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[batchelorboy55]

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[Kathleen]

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[richmond]

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[John]

I know you said the site is not returning but you need to know what joy it brought just to see a new post. You have been deeply, deeply missed by many of us. Hope all is well with you and your family.

[Profe Sancho Panza]

Thank you so much for this!! I always worry that I'm missing worthwhile books without your blog to guide me.

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Happy New Year to Thebes. Hope to see the blog back or at least an update on you in 2016.

[John]

Still checking in every day. Hope you are OK. Your fans would appreciate an update.