Rigoberto González: Butterfly Boy

USA 2006, 207 pp., brochure, € 19.95
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University of Wisconsin Press
Growing up among poor migrant Mexican farmworkers, Rigoberto González faces the pressure of coming-of-age as a gay man in a culture that prizes machismo. Losing his mother when he is twelve, González must then confront his father's abandonment and an abiding sense of cultural estrangement, both from his adopted home in the United States and from a Mexican birthright. His only sense of connection gets forged in a violent relationship with an older man. By finding his calling as a writer, and by revisiting the relationship with his father during a trip to Mexico, González finally claims his identity at the intersection of race, class, and sexuality. The result is a leap of faith that every reader who ever felt like an outsider will immediately recognize. Heartbreaking, poetic, and intensely personal.

Siegfried Kracauer: Georg

D 2013, 334 S., Pb, € 10.27
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Suhrkamp
Georg bekommt unmittelbar die Umbrüche zu spüren, die die Gesellschaft der Weimarer Republik bewegen. Ständig muss er schwere Entscheidungen treffen und weiß schon langsam nicht mehr, woran er überhaupt noch glauben soll. Er ist Journalist und arbeitet für den »Morgenboten«. Aber dieser Arbeitsplatz ist keineswegs sicher, denn einmal wird er für seine Artikel belobigt, dann wieder droht ihm die Entlassung. Mindestens ebenso turbulent geht es in seinem Liebesleben zu. Er hat eben den jungen, attraktiven Fred kennen gelernt. Und nun steht er wieder vor einer grundsätzlichen Entscheidung: soll er es weiterhin mit Beate versuchen oder doch lieber das große Risiko eingehen und sich auf den jungen Mann einlassen? Ohne es zu vorherzusehen, wird seine Entscheidung sein Leben auf den Kopf stellen.

Dennis Cooper: Smothered in Hugs

Essays, Interviews, Feedback, and Obituaries. USA 2010, 377 pp., brochure, € 14.99
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Harper
From the internationally acclaimed author of »Ugly Man« and one of »the last literary outlaws in mainstream American fiction« (Bret Easton Ellis) comes a survey of his cultural criticism. From interviews with celebrities such as Leonard DiCaprio and Keanu Reeves to obituaries for Kurt Cobain and River Phoenix - to writings on social issues - including the touchstone piece »AIDS: Words from the Front« - »Smothered in Hugs« spans three decades of journalism from Dennis Cooper. His portraits are both crystallizing and appropriately indefinite, his reckonings of contemporary writers are astute and unsparing. Cooper is a witness to the work and play of an illustrious roster of cultural personalities.

Richard Labonté (ed.): Best Gay Romance 2012

USA 2012, 213 pp., brochure, € 14.95
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Cleis
Brains, muscle, tenderness, kink. Like the perfect lover, »Best Gay Romance 2012« captures the raw energy of man-on man desire like no other. Once again, award-winning editor Richard Labonté has gathered hot, heart-pounding, tent-raising, gorgeous stories of no-holds-barred sex between men that will grab your senses, and send you into the sweaty backrooms of your erotic imagination. Get ready to fall in love with love all over again. These stories create a world of sexy, in-love men who live out their fantasies with memorable results. Young love. Love, unexpected. Lost love. Love, interrupted. As varied as the unique and irreproducible experiences of falling in lust, Labonté’s collection celebrates the intensity and passion of gay love in all its glory.

Richard Labonté (ed.): Best Gay Erotica 2013

USA 2012, 237 pp., brochure, € 15.95
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Cleis
Every year Richard Labonté sets the bar impossibly high and writers leap to meet his standard, the highest in gay erotic writing. Rough yet romantic, racy yet a nice and slow one-handed read, is yet another gold star in the crown of Cleis Press gay erotica. A straight-acting Italian Stallion has a badly-kept secret in Davem Verne’s »The Pasta Closet«. Douglas A. Martin’s »Other Residences, Other Neighborhoods« follows a young newcomer from Brooklyn to Chelsea as he chases boys and something like love. A physics major gets the hazing of a lifetime at the frat hose in Geoffrey Knight’s »Fight Club«. From gay superheroes to not-so-innocent farm hands, burly bears and fuzzy cubs – a nice and slow one-handed read.

Richard Labonté (ed.): Best Gay Erotica 2012

USA 2012, 228 pp., brochure, € 15.95
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Cleis
Called »consistently outstanding« by the Lambda Book Review and cited for »glorious approaches to gay male sexual writing«, by the Harvard Gay and Lesbian Review, Richard Labonte's Best Gay Erotica series sets and raises the bar in the 2012 volume. Gathering the hottest, freshest, and most literary fiction for the year, »Best Gay Erotica 2012« captures the tenderness and raw energy of man-on-man desire. From the innocent but oh-so-beautiful boy next door to the »seen it all« gritty street hustler, these provocative and potent short stories will grab your attention and your erotic imagination. Richard Labonté shares his tricks of the trade in this outstanding volume of craftsmanship and cocksmanship.

Paul Auster: Sunset Park

Dt. v. Werner Schmitz. D 2012, 317 S., geb., € 20.51
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Rowohlt
Die neue Wirtschaftskrise bereitet einer ganzen Schar von Menschen neue Sorgen. Und doch - so räsoniert Auster in seinem »Sunset Park« - bleiben die Hoffnungen nicht auf der Strecke. In diesem Panoptikum gibt es einen jungen Mann, der wie ein Besessener Fotos von Trümmern macht. Eine etwas unterkühlte Filmliebhaberin entwickelt eine Vorliebe fürs Androgyne. Die beiden treffen im Brooklyner Stadtteil Sunset Park auf einen Politaktivisten, der eine Klinik für kaputte Dinge betreibt und erst allmählich auf seine schwulen Neigungen stößt. Zu den Bewohnern Sunset Parks gehören auch eine Malerin, die sich erotischen Motiven verschrieben hat, und ein Kleinverleger, der Probleme nicht nur in seinem Verlag zu lösen hat, sondern auch in seiner Ehe, die zu scheitern droht. Ein Blick auf den desolaten Zustand des heutigen Amerikas.

Dennis Cooper: The Marbled Swarm

A Novel. USA 2011, 194 pp., brochure, € 13.99
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Literary cult hero Dennis Cooper delivers his highly anticipated new novel. Written in a voice that is lush and intricate, »The Marbled Swarm« is Dennis Cooper's most accomplished (and most beguiling) work to date. Cooper tells the story of a man who secretly influences his son to commit a grisly act. In secret passageways, hidden rooms, and the troubled mind of our narrator, a mystery perpetually takes shape – and the most compelling clue to its final nature is the marbled swarm itself: a complex amalgam of language passed down from father to son. Cooper, following his collections »Smothered in Hugs« and »Ugly Man«, offers his fans the expansive novel they have been waiting for, one that will become a touchstone of outsider literature.