‘Where’s My Wand?’ by Eric Poole
Publishers try to entice customers to buy their books by overtly connecting them to established, popular writers. Penguin does this on their official website for Eric Poole’s Where’s My Wand?: One...
View Article‘The Bucolic Plague’ by Josh Kilmer-Purcell
Halfway through Josh Kilmer-Purcell’s The Bucolic Plague, I started taking notes for this review and was ready to call it the perfect summer read, ideal for those pockets or time lying on a beach,...
View Article‘Portrait of an Addict as a Young Man’ By Bill Clegg
It is with a sense of shame that I admit I approached Portrait of an Addict as a Young Man by Bill Clegg with a bit of negative bias. It was getting too much attention with high-profile praise in...
View Article‘It’s Not Really About the Hair’ by Tabatha Coffey
When I told friends I was reviewing It’s Not Really About the Hair (It Books) for LLF, most responded in the same general way, “She scares me, but I love her!” And that is how I thought of her before...
View Article‘If You Knew Then What I Know Now’ by Ryan Van Meter
I have written a few reviews for LLF over the last couple of years, but I have never said this about any book I’ve reviewed: this is a book I wish I had written. This was not the first time I had read...
View Article‘At Home with Myself: Stories from the Hills of Turkey Hollow’ by David Mixner
Ask anyone of any sexual identity about David Mixner, and there is a good chance they will discuss his political work. Whether it has been his activism to end the Vietnam War, to call for global...
View Article‘David Hockney: A Rake’s Progress’ by Christopher Simon Sykes
I doubt I am the only middle-aged gay man in the contemporary United States whose first memories of British artist David Hockney’s work center on his paintings from the late-60s and early-70s featuring...
View ArticleBill Clegg: Surviving Addiction
“For years, I tried to control my drinking and my drug use, and I nearly lost my life because of it. I hurt many people in that deluded thrashing. In the writing of these two books, which has taken up...
View Article‘Fire in the Belly: The Life and Times of David Wojnarowicz’ by Cynthia Carr
Let me make this clear before you read this review: Fire in the Belly: The Life and Times of David Wojnarowicz by Cynthia Carr is one of the most important books of 2012. Its importance rests not just...
View ArticleCynthia Carr: Searching for David Wojnarowicz
“He always felt like he was an alien and that people wouldn’t accept him as he was. He created camouflage.” In my review of Fire in the Belly: The Life and Times of David Wojnarowicz (Bloomsbury USA)...
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