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‘Tomorrow May Be Too Late’ by Thomas Marino

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In Thomas Marino’s oddly titled memoir, Tomorrow May Be Too Late, one might expect to discover handsome lovers with suspenseful [...]

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‘Lynnee Breedlove’s One Freak Show’ by Lynn Breedlove

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Lambda Award Winner
As Lynnee Breedlove accepted the Lammy award for the Trans category earlier this year, at the podium he [...]

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‘A Great Unrecorded History: A New Life of E. M. Forster’ by Wendy Moffat

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At a 90th-birthday celebration for E. M. Forster, in 1969, William Plomer declared that Forster’s “greatest novel” was “his life.”  [...]

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‘Madre and I’ by Guillermo Reyes

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Guillermo Reyes’ smart, gentle memoir, Madre and I, deftly braids together the story of the author’s mother, who emigrates from [...]

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The Spirit of It: Religion & Spirituality Books

by Thom Nickels Bio/Memoir

At the end of the day, when the big parties are over and when youth has long since vacated our [...]

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‘Beyond Paradise: The Life of Ramon Navarro’ by Andre Soares

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He was a major movie star more famous for his death than his life or his movies.
On October 30, 1968, [...]

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‘The Bucolic Plague’ by Josh Kilmer-Purcell

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Halfway through Josh Kilmer-Purcell’s The Bucolic Plague, I started taking notes for this review and was ready to call it [...]

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‘Deflowered: My Life in Pansy Division’ by Jon Ginoli

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DEFLOWERED:
My Life in Pansy Division
By Jon Ginoli
Cleis Press
ISBN: 9781573443432
Paperback, $16.95, 288p
Lambda Award Finalist
Pansy Division, one of the first out [...]

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‘At Your Own Risk: A Saint’s Testament’ by Derek Jarman

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To say that the late Derek Jarman employs a cinematic style in his semi-memoir, At Your Own Risk: A Saint’s [...]

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‘Where’s My Wand?’ by Eric Poole

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Publishers try to entice customers to buy their books by overtly connecting them to established, popular writers. Penguin does this [...]

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