Lasting City takes its impetus from one of the author’s strongest early childhood memories: the dropping of the atom bomb on Hiroshima. Playing in the sand on a beach where he’s making a “sand castle” of the Flatiron Building, the author’s work is soon trampled by bullies.

In How to Succeed in Business Without Really Crying, [Carol] Leifer shares stories from life at home and on the road, shaping them into a useful (and funny) collection of tips for up-and-comers in any field.

Film historian Matthew Kennedy’s scintillating new book, Roadshow! The Fall of Film Musicals in the 1960s, is brimming with gossip and back stories about studio hubris and outrageous movie star tantrums that resulted in financial and artistic disasters, ending the lucrative roadshow tradition.

License to Wed: What Legal Marriage Means to Same-Sex Couples by Kimberly D. Richman New York University Press.  271 pages, $39. “License” can mean official permission to do…More

Tiger Heron by Robin Becker University of Pittsburgh Press.  80 pages, $15.95 ROBIN BECKER is a well-established American poet and literary critic and professor at Penn State. Her…More

Queer Zines and Queer Zines 2 Edited by AA Bronson and Philip Aarons Printed Matter, Incorporated 271 pages, $25. (vol. 1) 264 pages, $25. (vol. 2) ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED…More

See a Little Light: The Trail of Rage and Melody by Bob Mould with Michael Azerrad Cleis Press. 403 pages, $16.95 See a Little Light, titled after one of…More

The title Hold Tight Gently comes from the section of poems about AIDS from [Essex] Hemphill’s unpublished manuscript Domestic Life.