William S. Burroughs: The Adding Machine

USA 2013, 224 pp., brochure, € 14.95
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Publishers Group West
William S. Burroughs has produced a body of work unique in our time. In these scintillating essays, he writes wittily and wisely about himself, his interests, his influences, his friends and foes. He offers candid and not always flattering assessments of such diverse writers as Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Joseph Conrad, Graham Greene, Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Samuel Beckett, ... Weiterlesen

Andrea Weiss: Paris Was a Woman

Portraits from the Left Bank. USA 2013, 256 pp. illustrated, brochure, € 24.95
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Publishers Group West
Originally published more than twenty years ago and winner of a Lambda Literary Award, »Paris Was a Woman« is a rare profile of the female literati in Paris at the turn of the last century. Now with a new preface and illustrations, this »scrapbook« of their work - along with Andrea Weiss' lively commentary - highlights the political, social, and ... Weiterlesen

David Leavitt, Mark Mitchell (eds.): In Maremma

Life and a House in Southern Tuscany. USA 2011 (revised, expanded edition), 141 pp. with color photographs, brochure , € 17.95
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Publishers Group West
In 1997 David Leavitt and Mark Mitchell bought a house in southern Tuscany: not a villa but a dilapidated farmhouse dating from the late 1950s and abandoned for more than 20 years. This book recounts the restoration of the house, as well as the gradual process by which two Americans became initiated into a part of Italy - and a ... Weiterlesen

Alex Espinoza: Cruising

An Intimate History of a Radical Pastime. USA 2009, 237 pp., brochure, € 24.95
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Publishers Group West
From Greek antiquity to the notorious Molly houses of 18th century England, the raucous 1970s to the algorithms of Grindr, Oscar Wilde to George Michael, cruising remains at once a reclamation of public space and the creation of its own unique locale - one in which men of all races and classes interact, even in the shadow of repressive governments. ... Weiterlesen

Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore (ed.): That's Revolting!

Queer Strategies for Resisting Assimilation. USA 2008 (Rev., expanded edition), 350 pp., brochure, € 19.95
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Publishers Group West
As the growing gay mainstream prioritizes the attainment of straight privilege over all else, it drains queer identity of any meaning, relevance, or cultural value. What's more, queers remain under attack. Gay youth shelters can be vetoed because they might reduce property values. Trannies are out because they might offend straights. »That's Revolting!« offers a bracing tonic to these trends. ... Weiterlesen

John Rechy: The Life and Adventures of Lyle Clemens

USA 2004, 324 pp., brochure, € 14.95
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Publishers Group West
Modeled on the classic 18th-century picaresques like Fielding's »The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling« and Defoe's »Moll Flanders«, »The Life and Adventures of Lyle Clemens« is the modern-day bildungsroman of a prodigiously attractive young Texan named Lyle Clemens. Lyle is kind of a holy fool who, like Chance in »Being There«, illuminates the actions, motivations, and prejudices of others ... Weiterlesen

John Rechy: The Coming of the Night

USA 2000, 256 pp., brochure, € 12.95
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Publishers Group West
John Rechy's novel »The Coming of the Night« is a return to the themes and scenes of his classic, best-selling »City of Night« and a bittersweet memorial to a lost world - gay Los Angeles in the moment before AIDS. It is 1981, a summer night, and an unscripted ritual is about to take place. Young, beautiful Jesse is celebrating ... Weiterlesen

John Rechy: Rushes

USA 1997, 224 pp., brochure, € 19.95
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Publishers Group West
Once again, John Rechy takes us to an unexplored part of the post-Stonewall pre-AIDS gay underworld of New York City in »Rushes, his first book following the controversial bestseller, »The Sexual Outlaw«. The story develops during a single evening and is set in a »leather and Western« bar located near the decaying and deserted waterfront of the Big Apple. This ... Weiterlesen

John Rechy: Numbers

USA 1984, 256 pp., brochure, € 19.95
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Publishers Group West
Johnny Rio, a handsome narcissist but no longer a pretty boy, travels to Los Angeles, the site of past sexual conquest and remembered youthful radiance, in a frenzied attempt to recreate his younger self. Johnny has ten precious days to draw the »numbers«, the men who will confirm his desirability, and with the hungry focus of a man on borrowed ... Weiterlesen