Arts & Culture :: Books
Litquake's 25th - Festival includes author events of the queer type
Always a delight for San Franciscans, Litquake, the West Coast's largest independent literary festival, returns to the Bay Area, and celebrates a quarter century of programs, including a wealth of queer events, authors, and icons.
Peter Hujar's 'Portraits in Life and Death' - photo book reissued nearly 50 years on
The only book of his work published in his lifetime, Peter Hujar's "Portraits in Life and Death," considered a cult classic by some, has been reissued by Liveright Publishing.
Local LGBTQ+ Media Giving Day is October 8
News Is Out, a collaboration of six LGBTQ+ media representing more than 250 collective years of experience covering the community, is launching the first Local LGBTQ+ Media Giving Day Tuesday, Oct. 8, 2024 during LGBTQ History Month.
Randy Rainbow is full-spectrum funny
Can we all agree that there's nothing worse than reading a book by a humorist and not laughing? Fear not, as gay humorist and performer Randy Rainbow more than exceeded our expectations, as he will yours, with his hilarious new book "Low-Hanging Fruit."
Gia Gordon's 'The Redemption of Daya Keane' - a heartwarming YA novel
"The Redemption of Daya Keane" is a novel about the value of friendship, fun, and finding common ground, even with those who seem to be unlike us. This queer coming-of-age YA novel, Gia Gordon's first, is a gem of a story.
Words: 'Song Of Myself,' Walt Whitman scholar Arnie Kantrowitz's posthumous book published
The posthumous publication of "Song of Myself," a previously unpublished novel by the late gay activist and Walt Whitman scholar, Arnie Kantrowitz is about a gay man's odyssey of self-discovery.
Kink ink: Folsom books threeway
Welcome to Folsom Week here in beautiful, diverse, and, yes, kinky, San Francisco! Here are three books of interest that have published in the past month guaranteed to appeal to your kinkier side of alternative sexual proclivities.
A 100th Birthday Celebration for James Baldwin - party at GLBT History Museum commemorates gay African American author
August 2nd was the 100th birthday of legendary gay African American author James Baldwin. On September 19 the GLBT History Museum, in collaboration with Books Not Bans, will throw a birthday party that promises to pull out all the stops.
'Small Rain' - Garth Greenwell's remarkable new novel
Garth Greenwell's generous, expansive new novel, "Small Rain" (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) is built on the author's own experience of a dozen-day stay in the hospital, gazing into the maw of death from an infrarenal aortic dissection.
Jeannette de Beauvoir's 'The Fine Art of Deception: A Provincetown Mystery' - art fraud in P'town
Jeannette de Beauvoir's "The Fine Art of Deception: A Provincetown Mystery" is the ninth finely crafted book in the Provincetown Mystery series, but it is a stand-alone work in itself. Whether you have any knowledge of art or not, this is a must-read.
Megan Davis' 'What Breaks Us' - an insightful new poetry collection on love & healing
Actress Megan Davis, who's also a screenwriter, shares another of her talents with her debut poetry book, "What Breaks Us."
Robert Raasch: author discusses 'The Summer Between'
The author of the acclaimed coming of age novel set in 1970s Greenwich Village discusses his work process and inspiration behind the story.
Patrick Nathan's 'The Future Was Color' travels through history
Spanning a nearly 80-year period, from the 1940s to the present day, Lambda Literary Award finalist Patrick Nathan takes readers from Hollywood to New York to Las Vegas to Paris, all the while seamlessly incorporating significant historical events.
August Thompson's 'Anyone's Ghost' - a genre novel with a twist
August Thompson's "Anyone's Ghost" shows that there's still life in the currently overdone genre of drug-fueled, sex-driven, gay coming-of-age stories.