Simon Asencio: She didn't say it was her phone ...

IT 2023, 167 pp., magazine, € 19.95
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The volume is an epistolary narrative produced via text message with a community of anonymous correspondents. Following on from a performative work, conceived by Simon Asencio, this book stages a relation between two protagonists, U and I. Through identitarian slips and glyphs, the book explores the narrative ambiguities of experimental writing, to generate a space for fluidity and uncertainty, at ... Weiterlesen

Shehan Karunatilaka: The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida

UK 2022, 438 pp., brochure, € 17.95
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Sort of
Colombo, 1990. Maali Almeida - war photographer, gambler, and closet queen - has woken up dead in what seems like a celestial visa office. His dismembered body is sinking in the serene Beira Lake and he has no idea who killed him. In a country where scores are settled by death squads, suicide bombers, and hired goons, the list of ... Weiterlesen

Alison Bechdel: The Secret to Superhuman Strength

UK 2021, 304 pp., hardbound, € 27.95
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Jonathan Cape
In this, her third graphic memoir, Alison Bechdel has written a deeply layered, personal story about selfhood, self-sabotage, mortality, addiction, bliss, wonder, and the concerns of a generation. This is an extraordinary, laugh-out-loud chronicle of the conundrums we all grapple with as we seek our true place in the world. - All her life, Alison Bechdel has searched for an ... Weiterlesen

Alexander Chee: How to Write an Autobiographical Novel

USA 2018, 288 pp., brochure, € 17.95
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Mariner
This is the author's manifesto on the entangling of life, literature, and politics, and how the lessons learned from a life spent reading and writing fiction have changed him. In these essays, he grows from student to teacher, reader to writer, and reckons with his identities as a son, a gay man, a Korean American, an artist, an activist, a ... Weiterlesen

Guillaume Dustan: The Works Volume 1: Novels: In My Room, I'm Going Out Tonight, Stronger Than Me

UK 2013, 374 pp., brochure, € 27.95
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Guillaume Dustan' first three novels, published in French between 1996 and 1998, describing the narrator's sexual odyssey through a Paris still haunted by AIDS. This volume collects a suite of three wildly entertaining and trailblazing short novels by the legendary French anti-assimilationist gay writer Guillaume Dustan. Published sequentially in France between 1996 and 1998, the three novels are exuberant and ... Weiterlesen

Brendan Lemon: Last Night

USA 2003, 240 pp., brochure, € 14.69
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John Webster will most likely die tomorrow. In the hot Havana morning, an executioner may take his life as punishment for the murder of a teenage boy. Late into the night, alone in his cell in a decaying prison, John begins to compose a letter. He struggles to assemble the sharp, brilliant fragments of his life into a coherent image ... Weiterlesen

Yukio Mishima: Confessions of a Mask

USA 1958, 254 pp., pb., € 19.95
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Penguin USA
»Confessions of a Mask« is the story of an adolescent who must learn to live with the painful fact that he is unlike other young men: Mishima's protagonist discovers that he is becoming a homosexual in polite, post-war Japan. To survive, he must live behind a mask of propriety. Christopher Isherwood comments - »One might say, »Here is a Japanese ... Weiterlesen

Christos Tsiolkas: Loaded

GB 1997, 136 pp., pb., € 14.95
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Vintage
Ari is nineteen, unemployed and a poofter who doesn't want to be gay. He is looking for something - anything - to take him away from his aimless existence in suburban Melbourne. He doesn't believe in anyone or anything, except the power of music. All he wants to do is dance, take drugs, have sex and change the world. For ... Weiterlesen