book review
Stephen Coy reviews funny lady LANE MOORE”s How To Be Alone if you Want to and Even if you Don”t
How to be Alone if you Want to and Even if you Don’t Lane Moore Growing up, Lane Moore had a very unstable family life, full of dysfunction and disappointment. As an adult, she has little contact with them. This situation spilled over into a life with few friends and those she did attain, rarely…
Stephen Coy reviews Darius the Great is Not Okay
Darius the Great is Not Okay Adib Khorram I do not think I ever read a Young Adult (YA) novel. The YA phenomenon seems to be a more recent rebranding of novels written for younger readers. In the last decade many books targeted toward the YA market have been picked up by regular, older readers.…
Welcome to Fairyland : Queer Miami Before 1940
Fairyland was a term coined by civic boosters in Miami to establish the city as a resort whose tropical exoticism was linked to the Caribbean. While obviously alluding to the queer connotation, it referenced the tourist fantasies of a place that was somewhat removed from the mundane aspects of everyday life. The book reads like…
Bill Cunningham was an original, a true character, in the best sense of the word.
FASHION CLIMBING A MEMOIR WITH PHOTOGRAPHS By BILL CUNNINGHAM Preface by Hilton Als After Bill Cunningham died in 2016, his family found a memoir he had written about the earlier period of his life. It was an unexpected, and enjoyable, find. Most people remember Cunningham’s work as the photographer behind the On the Street and…
