Author queerguruPosted on Categories queermatterWriting a book review of Paul Rudnick’s latest novel is probably a fool’s errand. If you follow his Twitter feed or read his short pieces in The New Yorker, you know that the more outlandish and implausible the premise, the better. I say all of this in a complimentary way. He skewers pop culture and … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queermatterBrontez Purnell is a flaming powerhouse of creativity: writer, dancer, singer, filmmaker. Impressively restless and productive. His latest outing is this bold, sassy, sexy roulette wheel of a book in which he celebrates the marginal, the promiscuous, the lovelorn, the endlessly horny, hookers and hook-ups, fuck buddies and fuck-ups. I read it first in a … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queermatter“Does gay still have a place?” asks the back cover blurb, and whilst Atherton-Lin’s riveting and joyous book may not provide anything approaching a definitive answer, it’ll make you want to find a place, even make you nostalgic for a place whether real or imagined. Appearing at the tail-end of a year-long lockdown, … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queermatterAt the heart of Niven Govinden’s short novel is the romantic off-screen love affair between two actors, the leading men in the narrator’s latest film. The narrator, known only as Maestro, originally from some East European country and now in his mid-fifties, is a successful film director attending a film festival in Italy for the … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queermatter“The door closes. He’s gone. I’m alone.” Moore’s narrator feels he’s hard-wired for abandonment, allergic to reciprocated love, only happy when he’s being rejected. Loneliness is the one constant in his life, the one companion that never leaves. “Loneliness can be the greatest gift”, he says. The fragmented nature of the text mirrors the … Continue reading
