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In the Beginning Was Little Richard

LAST SEPTEMBER, The New Yorker reviewed a book on reading in which the reviewer noted that there’s no war between the Internet and books; the Internet is now part of the way we read. We do it because we can look things up on Google or YouTube as we go along. Rocking the Closet, a new book by Vincent L. Stephens about four legendary singers—Little Richard, Liberace, Johnny Mathis, and Johnnie Ray—is a case in point.

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Edward Gorey’s Gothic Nonsense

L’Heure Bleue is a nocturne on love and loneliness, a reverie about all that could have been, confected from what was. Yet despite its blue mood, Gorey’s book has given heart to gay men

Essays

At Home with Quentin Crisp

The Greek painter and photographer Dimitris Yeros, a friend during Crisp’s New York years, wrote the following (translated by Nick Lingris) in his memory. He took a series of photos during a 1998 visit to New York.

Essays

The Sexual Economy of Revolution

In 1951, [Bob Mizer] started Physique Pictorial (PP), a quarterly magazine that continued sporadically all the way to 1991. … PP was unlike anything that came before. There were photos of bodybuilders, but also of more natural, boyish types. Mizer added copious comments on the evils of censorship, the risks of pen-pal correspondence, the selection of photographic equipment, and the personalities of the models …
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