book review
Queerguru’s STEPHEN COY reviews UNMUTED: Stories of Courage and Resilience
Writing workshops present a mixed bag. Out of many submissions, a few might be worthwhile. It must be similar to what creative writing professors experience in every seminar or class. The good ones will shine and collecting stories for an anthology gives the editor the leeway to make the cuts. Since this collection comes from…
Lyrics of My Life: My Journey with Family, HIV, and Reality TV : BRANDEN JAMES
The musician BRANDEN JAMES may seem a tad young to be writing a memoir but having packed a lot into his life so far gets to add author to his list of talents as he has just releasing his memoir “LYRICS OF MY LIFE”. It covers his growing up in California to evangelical…
“Closet Cases: Queers on What to Wear” reviewed by Jonathan Kemp
Sartorial innovation has become something of a trademark, even a cliché or stereotype, of the (in)famous ‘homosexual sensibility’ (think Queer Eye). In Susan Sontag’s 1964 essay, ‘Notes on Camp’, she writes: “A sensibility (as distinct from an idea) is one of the hardest things to talk about.” Better, perhaps, to show rather than tell,…
Jonathan Kemp reviews LOTE ‘a gem of a novel’ by Shola von Reinhold
Jacaranda Books recently won UK Regional Small Press of the Year, and if all their output is of the very high standard of quality to be found in this wonderful novel, they very much deserved to win. Shola von Reinhold’s debut is a joy, a gem of a novel, as lustrous and multi-hued as the…
