Diana Souhami: No Modernism Without Lesbians

UK 2021, 456 pp. illustrated, brochure, € 17.95
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This is the story of how a singular group of women in a pivotal time and place - Paris, between the wars - fostered the birth of the Modernist movement. Sylvia Beach, Bryher, Natalie Barney, and Gertrude Stein - a trailblazing publisher, a patron of artists, a society hostess, and a groundbreaking writer - they were all women who loved ... Weiterlesen

Frank Wynne (ed.): Queer

LGBTQ Writing From Ancient Times to Yesterday. UK 2023, 624 pp, pb., € 27.95
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Drawing together writing from Catullus to Sappho, from Rimbaud to Anaïs Nin, and from Armistead Maupin to Alison Bechdel, translator Frank Wynne has collected a hundred of the finest works representing queer love by LGBTQ authors. »Queer« straddles the spectrum of queer experience, from Verlaine's sonnet in praise of his lover's anus and Emily Dickinson's exhortation of a woman's beauty, ... Weiterlesen

Scott Thorson: Behind the Candelabra

Outrageous True Story of Life with Liberace. UK 2013, 239 pp., brochure, € 12.95
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As in the movie, this book tells the story of Scott Thorson who lived with and worked for Liberace. Scott Thorson, a poor boy from a succession of foster homes, met Liberace when he was just 16 years old. Liberace, aged 57, took Scott under his wing as »the son he'd never had«. By the time Scott was 17, he ... Weiterlesen