literature
Turn Back Time to when LGBT literature was pulp fiction
In the week that queerguru is fully immersed in the Miami Book Fair which has some excellent LGBT programming our coverage will follow next week), we take a look back at the exploitative “literature” of the ’50s, ’60s and early ’70s. At the time this ‘pulp fiction’ detailing the seedy underbelly of homosexual life…
SHOLEM ALEICHEM : LAUGHING IN THE DARK
Sholem Naumovich Rabinovich was born in 1858 in a shtetl in a remote part of Russia that eventually became Ukraine, and when he grew he eventually became Sholem Aleichem the most celebrated Yiddish writer of all time. His father was a wealthy merchant who managed to go bankrupt make the family penniless, which was something Sholem would repeat often…
Queerguru reviews’ James Franco’s THE BROKEN TOWER
This is an obscure and difficult-to-watch movie about an obscure and difficult-to-read poet. It’s the brief life of Hart Crane a poet and writer well-regarded by his peers but who was one very unhappy homosexual who took his own life in 1932 when he was a mere 33 years old. In his short career…
Kill Your Darlings
The cinematic fascination with The Beat Generation continues regardless. Following on the heals of Walter Salles take on Jack Kerouac’s ‘On The Road’ which the Critics were quick to dismiss when it recently had a Limited Release in US theaters, we have this new movie which, set in the mid 1940’s is essentially a pre-quel to the movement that was…
