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City of Night appropriately reads like a beat novel. Written in the 60's, it follows a gay-for-pay hustler whom we follow from New York to L.A. to San Francisco to New Orleans and further, but we never learn his name. This is appropriate as well, because one of the main themes ringing throughout the piece is …
This biography on one of my favorite actors is brimming with anecdotes that perfectly capture the immutable charisma of Tallulah Bankhead. Unlike most actors, I always thought Tallulah's best performances were at the beginning of her career. In her first talkies, her characters are arguably more natural and entrancing than even Bette Davis. But her …
Hanya Yanagihara's second novel is equal parts soulful and soul-crushing. It has some of the most exhilarating sentences I've ever had the joy of reading, but at some points, as much as I love it, it delves a little into trauma porn. It's not for the faint of heart, but past the ugliness and past …
It's sometimes frustrating to me that gay history pre-Stonewall is routinely treated as less relevant than the decades after the riots set forth a nearly linear surge of progression. So reading George Chauncey's exhaustive documentation of how gay people forged a culture in New York before World War II was riveting. Chauncey details the secret …
This work is vital and timely. Coates' conveyance of what it is to be black in a society built on white supremacy is searing and urgent, while his perspective on blackness as a whole is symphonic and ultimately beautiful. An absolutely necessary read for everyone existing in a society affected by colonization. In other words, …
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