The Best Minds of My Generation is a compendium of lectures Ginsberg delivered at the Naropa Institute in Boulder, Colorado.
The interviews in First Thought: Conversations with Allen Ginsberg have never been included in previous collections, which makes this an especially important anthology.
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Savin-Williams is a developmental psychologist and the director of the Sex & Gender Lab at Cornell University, where he has been conducting research on the psychosexual development of gay, lesbian, and bisexual teens for three decades. He has been prodigiously productive in examining sexual developmental milestones, sexual identity labels, and sexual minority psychology throughout the lifespan.
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This new Library of America edition of Jane Bowles’ work, magnificently edited by Bowles scholar Millicent Dillon, does justice to this unique and neglected writer.
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ELI CLARE’S BOOK of essays, Brilliant Imperfection: Grappling with Cure, is a clarion call for changing the medicalized disability narrative, that of “defective brokenness,” that often prevails in U.S. healthcare.
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HOW MANY openly-LGBT rappers are there? What are the six states without any hate crimes laws? Which country leads the “gay happiness index”?
They may not have been questions you’ve thought of before, but the answers to these queries and about a thousand more are answered in LGBTQ Stats.
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While the earlier parts of Scores are wryly humorous and almost blithely dismissive of the problems encountered in the nightclub’s formation and early success, the book takes on a more serious and suspenseful tone, especially after Blutrich turns to telling the tale of being an informant.
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anybody by Ari Banias W.W. Norton. 112 pages, $25.95 Primer by Aaron Smith University of Pittsburgh Press 104 pages, $15.95 EVERY SO OFTEN, a poet…More
Reviews of One Of These Things First: A Memoir, and the movies, Bayou Maharajah: The Life and Music of New Orleans Piano Legend James Booker; Jonathan; and Akron.
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IN 1944, Charles Jackson published The Lost Weekend, about a writer battling alcoholism. … Two years later, he published a novel called The Fall of Valor (1946), which describes a married man’s love for a Marine.
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Reading this book, which is subtitled My Life in Stories and Pictures, is akin to sitting with Cumming as he leafs through his ever-growing scrapbook of accomplishments, loves lost and won, and collaborations with other name-brand stars.
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