A-LISTS book rage by mark hernandez
Visible Lives
and
In My Father’s House
You may have heard of E. Lynn Harris’ untimely death last year, the famous
black author of many bestselling books about men exploring their homosexu- ality on the down low. In the book Visible Lives he’s honored by three of his liter- ary friends— Terrance Dean, author of Hiding in Hip Hop, Stanley Bennett Clay, author of In Search of Pretty Black Men, and James Earl Hardy, author of many popular books including the B-Boy Blues series. Each writer offers up a short story that honors their beloved colleague written in the same genre as E. Lynn Harris’ own books. Very cool! In addition, E. Lynn Harris’ final book In My Father’s House, completed just before he died, is also being published this month as well. Sadly, it was to be the first of a new series of books about a bisexual owner of a Miami modeling agency he took over for his father.
{Between} Boyfriends
Michael Salvatore, the author of {Between} Boyfriends, is
an award-winning writer and playwright who has gotten his first novel published by one of the biggest gay book publishers right off the bat. While his first book sounds a lot like it’s based on his own life, after learning more about Michael’s own personal world...you’d probably want it to be. His fictional story follows Steven Ferrante, a 30-something who’s now totally over the endless dat- ing after his boyfriend kicked him to the curb four years earlier. Surrounded by his loyal but over-the-top friends, his Sicilian mother and his crazy day job as a producer of the soap opera Tomorrow Never Comes, it looks like he’s finally crossed paths with someone who’s a keeper. But like a soap opera, there’s no telling how things are going to turn out in the wild and too-much-fun swirl of his daily life. One thing’s for sure—his heart is ready to settle down and live a much more predictable existence.
Very Good-Looking
Seeks Same
And in this month’s “Now For Something Completely
Fork on the Left,
Knife in the Back
Michael Musto’s latest collection of columns and
essays entitled Fork on the Left, Knife in the Back is the
perfect paperback to have in your bathroom’s library, immediately available to flip open to something short to pass the time with a quick laugh. In this one, he dishes on the usual suspects such as Sean Combs, Paris Hilton and others, but also gets into whatever else he thinks is funny that you definitely need to know. He also includes detailed descriptions of some of his own machinations and adventures in New York’s night life with the rich and famous who love having an outrageous gay guy around to add to the entertainment—not realizing that they’ll be our source of entertainment soon enough.
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RAGE monthly | JUNE 2010
Different” department I would like to bring to your attention to a book of poetry. Most of us have difficulty buying or reading a book of poems unless we’re seri- ously into poetry to begin with. But this one comes with a twist that just might interest you. In Robert Philipson’s new book Very Good-Looking Seeks Same, he takes gay personal ads that are unique and interesting and turns them into a page or two of free verse. The result is a cool new way of looking at those head-scratching online pro- files that gay guys post. Now don’t act like you haven’t read a zillion of them yourself. But it’s so funny to see someone else poke fun at them in a different way, and you’ll realize you weren’t the only one who thought they were somewhere between ridiculous and hilarious— especially the ones where the profile text talks about dinner, movies and romantic walks on the beach, but the profile picture suggests something quite different!
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