Christopher Rice’s latest mystery thriller, ‘The Moonlit Earth
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Written works, fiction, poetry, short stories, quotes, memoirs
The new issue of Scorcher — “the psychedelic porno zine” — is out April 10 and creator Max Steele is hosting a reading to celebrate. Readers include Daniel Portland (“Oh, Renoir”), Birdsong publisher, Tommy Pico, and BK Folk duo, PAPS, are set to play. It all goes down at PPOW Gallery in Chelsea, as part of their series The Hostess Project, @ 511 West 25th Street, Room 301 (at 10th Ave). The latest is titled “I Love You, You Little Crocodile.”
Dear HN readers. For the past 2 months I’ve been working with LambdaLiterary.org to launch our new website. Well I’m happy to say that on Monday we launched and it’s been an amazing ride. Some of you may know that my background is in books, so I will always have a special place in my heart for literary culture. Right now, I’m happy that I’ve helped build a place for queer authors and writers to congregate. I enourage you to check out the site and give us your feedback. Thank you to all the friends out there for the incredible support. [Video: Karina Melendez of Word Is Up]
The bow tied editor and publisher of ‘Mary,’ a literary quarterly, William Johnson, hosted a launch party Sunday at Duplex for the most recent issue. Johnson, who we met at the Fine and Dandy launch party in June, spoke with Homo-Neurotic last month about the DUMBO-based magazine that features gay writing and art. Check out excerpts from the magazine after the jump, including an interview with gay hip-hop artist Last Offence (Facebook page, Myspace page), the coverboy for this issue who joined the handsome crowd in attendance.
Great news! Last week, hN contributor/friend Nick Burd won an American Library Association, Stonewall Book Award, for his beautifully-written debut novel, “The Vast Fields of Ordinary.” We reviewed his novel last summer and we’ve supported Nick every step of the way.
Nick, from the bottom of our rotten little hearts: “You rock and you deserve that award!” Incidentally, 2010 marks the first year that the ALA Committee is giving an award for children’s and young adult literature—which makes the prize so much more special.
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Let’s be honest; it’s probably going to happen in the near future. We’re going to see J.D. Salinger’s masterpiece of teenage angst and rebellion translated (twisted?) onto the silver screen. With his passing earlier this week, I imagine producers are circling the estate with hopes of securing the movie rights for The Catcher in the Rye
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If your day is anything like mine, it’s punctuated by several short bursts of procrastination from work. I’ve found the gems of fiction, bizzare lists, and essays on McSweeney’s Internet Tendency—a division of the eponymous publisher that also puts out The Believer, Wholphin, and McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern—are perfect for a few minutes of diversion before tackling your bloated inbox or the pile of files on your desk. With contributors including James Franco, Spike Jonze, Francis Ford Coppola, Jonathan Ames, and a deep-sea spatulator there’s always something to tickle your fancy, and they even have a nifty iPhone app that pushes these pearls—including exclusive content not published on the website—to your phone.
Check out excerpts from McSweeney’s archives after the jump.
Ryan Richardson may be our new hero. His website, Gay on the Range, is a stunning, hilarious archive of gay paperback book covers from the 50’s and 60’s. (The range, we assume, is a reference to Richardson’s Austin, TX home.) If you’ve ever spent time in the bathroom of New York’s Eastern Bloc (like we have), then you know exactly what we’re talking about here: unabashed, delicious smut.
BOOK REVIEW | Whether you celebrate Christmas with your family in some god-awful suburb or spend it holed up in your tiny Harlem apartment trying desperately not to catch a glimpse of “A Christmas Story” (believe me, I know) the holidays are unavoidable. We all probably have one or two Christmas tales fraught with humor and tragedy. Just last year I watched my mother fall into the Christmas tree after downing several bottles of champagne with my friends and me. The next morning, she couldn’t join my father in taking me to the airport. She was busy throwing up. Never one to avoid basking in his own family dysfunction, Augusten Burroughs has released his own collection of homo-biographical Christmas themed stories, “You Better Not Cry,” just in time for the forced December gift exchange.
Snooty Doonan declares on high that to holiday gift guides we should say goodbye. “Fiddle faddle,” I say to that pecksniffian blatherskite. I appreciate their suggestions and the ideas they alight.
Such guides sift, sort and, I daresay, curate selections of gifts that I may never have come across otherwise. (I most likely wouldn’t have found his partner’s love/hate/joy/anger druggist ceramics were it not for the suggestion of a gifted guide.)
Both the Gray Hag and NY Mag offer fairly comprehensive guides that are always a good place to start, but I’d like to introduce a few sites I’ve used in recent years that have listed intriguing gifts or that focused on specific types of items (the sites themselves—mostly blogs—are worth a look as well). I’ve also included links to past year’s guides as they still have some interesting, if not entirely timely, suggestions. The next step, of course, HN’s own gift guide. In the meantime, though, I hope these spark some ideas.
Core77
Industrial design magazine
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| ‘Journal of Popular Noise’ | Solvate: outsource customer service haggling | Piggybank + altruism |
BoingBoing
A directory of wonderful things
- 2009 Guide: Kids | Media | Gadgets | Nonfiction | Fiction | Comics & Art Books
- 2008 Guide: Kids | Fiction | Gadgets | Comics, Graphic Novels & Funnybooks | Nonfiction | DVDs & CDs
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| ‘Secret Identity: The Fetish Art of Superman’s Co-creator Joe Shuster’ | ‘Get High Now (without drugs)’ | ‘Rolling Stone Cover to Cover: The First 40 Years’ (on DVD, searchable) |
Notcot
Catalog of ideas, aesthetics, and amusements
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| Glass vacuum coffee maker | ‘God is a Verb’ poster | AK-47 ammunition ice cube tray |
Gizmodo
Gadget blog
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| Casio Exilim EX-FC100 Camera with 1000fps slow-motion video | Panasonic X1: Best 42-inch HD TV under $1,000 | Stellar sound: Shure SE110 earphones |
…and for the swine lovers among you:
Mish-mash of nifty curiosities
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| Bacon jelly beans | Bacon floss | Bacon wallet |
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