Augusten Burroughs: Dry

USA 2013, 293 pp., brochure, € 17.95
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An advertising executive remembers his childhood with his eccentric foster family and his early adulthood experiences of trying to establish an independent life for himself having finally become an alcoholic. When the ordinary person had two drinks, Augusten was circling the drain by having twelve; when the ordinary person went home at midnight, Augusten never went home at all. Loud, ... Weiterlesen

John Rechy: City of Night

UK 2009, 384 pp., pb., € 19.95
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Grove Press
When John Rechy's explosive first novel appeared in 1963, it marked a radical departure in fiction, and gave voice to a subculture that had never before been revealed with such acuity. It earned comparisons to Genet and Kerouac, even as Rechy was personally attacked by scandalized reviewers. Nevertheless, the book became an international bestseller, and fifty years later (2013), it ... Weiterlesen

Amber Dermont: The Starboard Sea

USA 2013, 352 pp., pb., € 9.95
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Jason Prosper grew up in the elite world of Manhattan penthouses, Maine summer estates, old boy prep schools and exclusive sailing clubs. A smart, athletic teenager, Jason maintains a healthy, humorous disdain for the trappings of affluence, preferring to spend afternoons sailing with Cal, his best friend and boarding school roommate - and his gay lover. When Cal commits suicide ... Weiterlesen

Bill Clegg: Ninety Days

USA 2013, 195 pp., pb., € 17.95
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The goal is ninety - just ninety clean and sober days to loosen the hold of the addiction that caused Bill Clegg to lose everything. Six weeks out of his most recent rehab, Clegg returns to New York and starts attending two or three meetings each day. It is in these refuges that he befriends essential new allies including Polly, ... Weiterlesen

Roy Francis Ley (Hg.): Sommergayflüster

Ö 2013, 136 S., Broschur, € 9.99
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Homo Littera
Warum fürchtet sich Lars, eine feste Beziehung zu Stefan einzugehen? Kann eine Liebe gesellschaftliche Normen brechen? Und was glaubt Paul zu erreichen, wenn er sich bei Viktor nicht mehr meldet? Kann ein Obdachloser wieder festen Fuß fassen? Und müssen Tattoos immer sichtbar sein? Was passiert mit einer verhängnisvollen SMS, während Mark sich heimlich auf Toiletten rumtreibt? Auf erotische und sinnliche ... Weiterlesen

Yara Nacht: Sündhafte Begierde der Verdammnis II

Ö 2013, 176 S., Broschur, € 13.00
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Homo Littera
Auf Mortem Castle entrinnt Valentin nur knapp dem Tod. Dennoch entflammt seine Liebe zu Bastian immer mehr. Als mehrere ausgehobene Gräber im Ort für Angst und Unruhe sorgen, schlägt sich Valentin trotz aller Warnungen auf Bastians Seite. Zum ersten Mal ist er glücklich und genießt sein Leben. Doch diese Liebe ist nicht nur Tamber ein Dorn im Auge, der seinen ... Weiterlesen

Glenway Wescott: A Visit to Priapus and Other Stories

USA 2013, 200 pp., hardback, € 26.95
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University of Wisconsin Press
Just as E. M. Forster's novel of gay love, »Maurice«, remained unpublished throughout his lifetime, Glenway Wescott's long story »A Visit to Priapus« was also destined to be a posthumous work, buried in Wescott's massive archive of manuscripts, journals, notebooks, and letters. The autobiographical story is about a literary man, frustrated in love, who puts aside his pride and makes ... Weiterlesen

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

Christopher Isherwood: Mr Norris Changes Trains

UK 2013, 200 pp., brochure, € 17.95
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On a train to Berlin in late 1930, William Bradshaw locks eyes with Arthur Norris, an irresistibly comical fellow Englishman wearing a rather obvious wig and nervous about producing his passport at the frontier. So begins a friendship conducted in the seedier quarters of the city, where Norris runs a dubious import-export business and lives in excited fear of his ... Weiterlesen

James Purdy: Cabot Wright Begins

USA 2013, 252 pp., brochure, € 14.95
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W. W. Norton
First appearing in the stifling cultural climate of early 1960s America, »Cabot Wright Begins«, despite exuberant reviews from a few of America's most astute reviewers, was regarded, given its shocking and disturbing content, as far too ahead of its time. It tells the story of Chicago car salesman Bernie Gladhart who, spurred on by his ambitious wife, decides to write ... Weiterlesen

Mitzi Szereto: The Wilde Passions of Dorian Gray

USA 2013, 228 pp., pb., € 19.95
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Cleis
Inspired by Oscar Wilde's classic novel »The Picture of Dorian Gray«, Mitzi Szereto's »Wilde Passions of Dorian Gray« continues where Wilde left off with the Faustian tale of a man of eternal youth and great physical beauty who lives a life of corruption, decadence and hedonism. The story begins in the bordellos of Jazz-age Paris, moving to the opium dens ... Weiterlesen

André Aciman: Harvard Square

USA 2013, 292 pp., brochure, € 19.95
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W. W. Norton
1977: amid the lovely streets of Cambridge a young Harvard graduate student, a Jew from Egypt, longs more than anything to become an assimilated American and a professor of literature. He spends his days in a pleasant blur of 17th-century fiction, but when he meets a brash, charismatic Arab cab driver in a Harvard Square café, everything changes. Nicknamed Kalashnikov ... Weiterlesen

Peter Ackroyd: Three Brothers

UK 2014, 246 pp., pb., € 13.95
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The novel follows Harry, Daniel, and Sam Hanway from grim postwar Camden to 1970s Soho. In adulthood the boys grow apart yet each life intersects with the same Londoners, the boorish newspaper baron Sir Martin Flaxman, a slumlord Asher Ruppta, and a gay hustler/pickpocket called Sparkler. From the bustling cut-throat world of Fleet street, hallowed London publishing offices, and the ... Weiterlesen

Susann Julieva: Café der Nacht

D 2013, 328 S., Broschur, € 14.40
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Dead Soft
Zwanzig Jahre nach seiner Schließung ist das legendäre »Café der Nacht« in Vergessenheit geraten. Einst war es nicht nur schwuler Szenetreff, sondern auch kreative Keimzelle einer Aufsehen erregenden Künstlergemeinde, die Ikonen hervorbrachte, wie den genialen Schauspieler Dean Monroe, der viel zu jung verstarb. Als Maxim die mysteriöse Nachricht erhält, dass er neuer Besitzer des Cafés werden soll, beginnt eine aufregende ... Weiterlesen

Ayana Mathis: The Twelve Tribes of Hattie

UK 2013, 333 pp., brochure, € 10.40
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Windmill
Having fled the horror of the American South for a new life in Philadelphia, Hattie Shepherd finds that her American dream is shattered time and again: a husband who lies and cheats, and nine children raised in a cramped little house that was only ever supposed to be temporary. Hattie keeps the children alive with sheer will and not an ... Weiterlesen