Camille Paglia: Free Women, Free Men

Sex, Gender, Feminism. USA 2017, 352 pp., hardcover, € 27.95
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Penguin USA
From the fiery intellectual provocateur: a brilliant essay collection that both celebrates and challenges modern feminism from motherhood to Madonna, football to Friedan, stilettos to Steinem. When Camille Paglia first burst onto the scene with »Sexual Personae«, she established herself as a smart, and often dissenting voice among feminists. Now, for the first time, her best essays on the subject ... Weiterlesen

Paul LaFarge: The Night Ocean

USA 2017, 400 pp., hardback, € 19.95
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Penguin USA
A riveting novel about secrets and scandals, psychiatry and pulp fiction, inspired by the lives of H.P. Lovecraft and his circle. Marina Willett, M.D., has a problem. Her husband, Charlie, has become obsessed with H.P. Lovecraft, in particular with one episode in the legendary horror writer's life: In the summer of 1934, the »old gent« lived for two months with ... Weiterlesen

Natasha Fraser-Cavassoni: After Andy

Adventures in Warhol Land. USA 2017, 336 pp. illustrated, hardcover, € 28.99
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Penguin USA
Natasha Fraser-Cavassoni's insider's account of working in Andy Warhol's studio and »Interview« magazine explores Warhol's impact on the art world, pop culture, society, and fashion - and how his iconic status gave rise to some of our most influential tastemakers today. Fraser-Cavassoni met the artist on and off over the years before landing in New York City at the Andy ... Weiterlesen

David Levithan: Hold Me Closer

The Tiny Cooper Story. USA 2016, 200 pp., brochure, € 13.99
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Penguin USA
It's Tiny Cooper's turn in the spotlight in this companion novel to New York Times bestseller »Will Grayson, Will Grayson«. Jazz hands at the ready! Tiny Cooper (»the world's largest person who is also really, really gay«) stole readers' hearts when he was introduced to the world in the New York Times bestselling book »Will Grayson, Will Grayson«, co-authored by ... Weiterlesen

Ann Bausum: Stonewall

Breaking Out in the Fight for Gay Rights. USA 2016, 122 pp., brochure, € 12.99
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Penguin USA
The first history of gay rights for teen readers. In 1969 being gay in the United States was a criminal offense. It meant living a closeted life or surviving on the fringes of society. People went to jail, lost jobs, and were disowned by their families for being gay. Most doctors considered homosexuality a mental illness. There were few safe ... Weiterlesen

David Treuer: Prudence

USA 2016, 253 pp., brochure, € 16.95
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Penguin USA
In August 1942, Frankie Washburn returns to his family's rustic Minnesota resort for one last visit before he joins the war as a bombardier, heading for Europe. Awaiting him are his hovering mother, his distant father, the Indian caretaker who's been more of a father to him than his own, and Billy, the childhood friend who over the years has ... Weiterlesen

C. S. Pacat: Kings Rising

Book Three of the Captive Prince Trilogy. USA 2016, 352 pp., brochure, € 24.95
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Penguin USA - Captive Prince 3
Damianos of Akielos has returned. His identity now revealed, Damen must face his master Prince Laurent as Damianos of Akielos, the man Laurent has sworn to kill. On the brink of a momentous battle, the future of both their countries hangs in the balance. In the south, Kastor's forces are massing. In the north, the Regent's armies are mobilizing for ... Weiterlesen

Michelle Tea: How to Grow up

A Memoir. USA 2015, 287 pp., brochure, € 24.95
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Penguin USA
As an aspiring young writer in San Francisco, Michelle Tea lived in a scuzzy communal house. She drank, smoked, snorted anything she got her hands on. She dated men and women, and sometimes both at once. But between hangovers and dead-end jobs, she scrawled in notebooks and organized dive bar poetry readings, working to make her literary dreams real. In ... Weiterlesen

Dan Savage: American Savage

Insights, Slights, and Fights on Faith, Sex, Love, and Politics. USA 2014, 297 pp., brochure, € 17.95
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Penguin USA
Now available as a paperback. Author, activist, and provocateur Dan Savage weighs in on such diverse issues as parenthood, monogamy, gun control, and marriage equality with his characteristic straight talk and humor. He has never been shy about expressing his opinions on controversial topics - political or otherwise. Thanks to his syndicated sex-advice column, »Savage Love«, he has gained a ... Weiterlesen

C. S. Pacat: Prince's Gambit

Book Two of the Captive Prince Trilogy. USA 2013, 404 pp., brochure, € 24.95
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Penguin USA - Captive Prince 2
The second novel in the Captive Prince trilogy from C. S. Pacat - with an all-new chapter exclusive to the print edition. With their countries on the brink of war, Damen and his new master, Prince Laurent, must exchange the intrigues of the palace for the sweeping might of the battlefield as they travel to the border to avert a ... Weiterlesen

Richard Rodriguez: Darling

A Spiritual Autobiography. USA 2014, 235 pp., brochure, € 16.95
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Penguin USA
Richard Rodriguez now considers religious violence worldwide, growing public atheism in the West, and his own mortality. Rodriguez's stylish new memoir - the first book in a decade from the Pulitzer Prize finalist - moves from Jerusalem to Silicon Valley, from Moses to Liberace, from Lance Armstrong to Mother Teresa. Rodriguez is a homosexual who writes with love of the ... Weiterlesen

John Schwartz: Oddly Normal

One Family's Struggle to Help Their Teenage Son Come to Terms With His Sexuality. USA 2013, 300 pp., brochure, € 15.95
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Penguin USA
Three years ago, John Schwartz, a national correspondent for »The New York Times«, got a call that every parent hopes never to receive: his 13-year-old son, Joe, was in the hospital following a suicide attempt. Mustering the courage to come out to his classmates, Joe had delivered a tirade about homophobic and sexist attitudes that was greeted with unease and ... Weiterlesen

Molly Haskell: My Brother My Sister

Story of a Transformation. USA 2013, 213 pp., hardbound, € 25.95
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Penguin USA
On a visit to New York, the brother of well-known film critic Molly Haskell drops a bombshell: Nearing age sixty and married, he has decided to come out as a transsexual and to undergo gender reassignment. Despite Haskell's liberal views on the changing roles of men and women - in film and in society - she is dumb-founded. »Why now?« ... Weiterlesen

Zach Wahls with Bruce Littlefield: My Two Moms

Lessons of Love, Strength, and What Makes a Family. USA 2013, 236 pp. with b/w photographs, brochure, € 16.99
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Penguin USA
On January 31, 2011, Zach Wahls addressed the Iowa House Judiciary Committee in a public hearing regarding a proposed constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage in Iowa. The then 19-year-old son of a lesbian couple proudly proclaimed: »The sexual orientation of my parents has had zero effect on the content of my character.« Hours later, his speech was posted on ... Weiterlesen

Merle Miller: On Being Different

What It Means to Be a Homosexual. USA 2012, 74 pp., brochure, € 14.95
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Penguin USA
Originally published in 1971, »On Being Different« is a pioneering and provocative book about being gay in America. Just two years after the Stonewall riots, Miller wrote an essay for The New York Times Magazine, entitled »What It Means to Be a Homosexual«, in response to a homophobic article in Harper's Magazine. Miller's writing, described as »the most widely read ... Weiterlesen

John Schwartz: Oddly Normal

One Family's Struggle to Help Their Teenage Son Come to Terms with His Sexuality. USA 2012, 290 pp., hardbound, € 23.49
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Penguin USA
Three years ago, John Schwartz, a national correspondent for »The New York Times«, got a call that every parent hopes never to receive: his 13-year-old son, Joe, was in the hospital following a suicide attempt. Mustering the courage to come out to his classmates, Joe had delivered a tirade about homophobic and sexist attitudes that was greeted with unease and ... Weiterlesen

Bill Morgan and David Stanford (eds.): Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg: The Letters

USA 2012, 500 pp., brochure, € 22.95
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Penguin USA
Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg are the most celebrated members of the literary movement called the Beat Generation, linked together not only by their shared sensibility but also by a deep and abiding friendship, one that colored their lives and greatly affected their writing. Extraordinary in its range, quality, and intimacy the correspondence between the two of them began shortly ... Weiterlesen

Ursula K. Le Guin: The Left Hand of Darkness

USA 2010, 330 pp., Pb, € 14.95
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Penguin USA
On the planet Winter, there is no gender. The Gethenians can become male or female during each mating cycle, and this is something that humans find incomprehensible. The Ekumen of Known Worlds has sent an ethnologist to study the Gethenians on their forbidding, ice-bound world. At first he finds his subjects difficult and off-putting, with their elaborate social systems and ... Weiterlesen