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Beach reading

Beach reading

  • by Jim Piechota
  • Feb 14, 2018

San Francisco author Lewis DeSimone's third novel "Channeling Morgan" takes readers into the mindset of a gay writer who discovers his "truth" in several different ways.

Time travel through Hollywood

Time travel through Hollywood

  • by Tavo Amador
  • Feb 14, 2018

Critic John DiLeo's "Ten Movies at a Time: A 350-Film Journey Through Hollywood and America 1930-1970" (Hansen Publishing Group, $29.95) is a distinctive addition to the crowded field of film history.

Your 2018 Winter Reading List

Your 2018 Winter Reading List

  • by Gregg Shapiro
  • Feb 14, 2018

Readers should consider themselves lucky that gay writer and photographer Bill Hayes has two books for them to enjoy.

Margaret Millar rediscovered

Margaret Millar rediscovered

  • by Erin Blackwell
  • Jan 31, 2018

Out of the past now comes Canadian mystery writer Margaret Millar in a multiple omnibus edition, the seven-volume "Collected Millar" (Syndicate Press, $99.99).

Fran Lebowitz explains it all for you

Fran Lebowitz explains it all for you

  • by Sari Staver
  • Jan 31, 2018

We called author Fran Lebowitz at her New York City apartment to get a preview of her upcoming appearance at the Berkeley Repertory Theatre this month.

Dramatic diva

Dramatic diva

  • by Jim Piechota
  • Jan 24, 2018

Outspoken, versatile, iconic actress and comedienne Jenifer Lewis' new memoir "The Mother of Black Hollywood" is a revealing tell-all that spares no detail of the Hollywood scene-stealer's life.

Collective liberation awaits

Collective liberation awaits

  • by Brian Bromberger
  • Jan 3, 2018

The wisdom of "Awakening Together" is contained in its title, namely that any liberation we experience cannot be fully expressed alone.

Books incoming

Books incoming

  • by Roberto Friedman
  • Jan 3, 2018

Here are some books that we're looking forward to reading, assigning to review, or both this coming year.

Light brushstrokes in India ink

Light brushstrokes in India ink

  • by Tim Pfaff
  • Jan 3, 2018

Novelist Neel Mukherjee gathers in the distressed, the displaced, and holds them close in his new novel "A State of Freedom" (W.W. Norton & Company).

Anne-Christine d'Adesky gives vox to pox

Anne-Christine d'Adesky gives vox to pox

  • by Erin Blackwell
  • Dec 27, 2017

"The Pox Lover: An Activist's Decade in New York and Paris" pans back from a jet-setting chronicle blurring the boundaries of Paris, New York, Haiti, Amsterdam, and New Orleans.

Special K

Special K

  • by Jim Piechota
  • Dec 27, 2017

Jerry Oppenheimer flashes his laser pointer across the throne of the Kardashian dynasty and lets the glitter fall where it may in "The Kardashians: An American Drama."

Page-turners: books for holiday giving

Page-turners: books for holiday giving

  • by Tavo Amador
  • Dec 20, 2017

Unsure what to get readers on your holiday gift lists? Following are suggestions that may help you find the right tome.

The year's best LGBT nonfiction

The year's best LGBT nonfiction

  • by Tim Pfaff
  • Dec 20, 2017

The year turned into an avalanche of superb LGBT nonfiction comparable to the torrent of stand-out LGBT fiction in 2016. Much of it bent genres as well as genders.

'Call Me' Goes from Page to Screen

'Call Me' Goes from Page to Screen

  • by Brian Bromberger
  • Dec 13, 2017

The B.A.R. interviewed"Call Me By Your Name" author Andre Aciman by email.