New in November: Dennis Cooper, Mari SanGiovanni, Sylvia Beach, and Chantal Regnault

Author: Edit Team

November 3, 2011

Rejoice bibliophiles! November has arrived and so has a cavalcade of fall books.  This month you can pick up new releases from Dennis Cooper, Mari SanGiovanni, Sheila Ortiz Taylor, Chantal Regnault, and Samuel Delany.

• Tens across the board! French photographer and documentarist Chantal Regnault spent years visually documenting the 1980s gay Harlem Ball scene. In her new book, Voguing and the Gay Balls of New York City (Soul Jazz Books), Regnault presents hundreds of previously unpublished photographs as well as “interviews with key figures from the movement, essays, flyers, and ephemera…”

• This month famed cult writer Dennis Cooper releases his long awaited new novel The Marbled Swarm (Harper Perennial).  The novel concerns itself with cannibalism (yes …this is a Dennis Cooper novel), the world of  high art, old money, and an “unspeakable system of coercion and surrender.”

• Columbia University Press is releasing The Letters of Sylvia Beach. Beach was the founder of the Left Bank bookstore Shakespeare and Company and the first publisher of James Joyce’s Ulysses.  Beach had “a legendary facility for nurturing literary talent. ”  This collection of her letters  illuminate Beach’s “day-to-day dealings as bookseller and publisher to expatriate Paris. Friends and clients include Ernest Hemingway, Gertrude Stein, H. D., Ezra Pound, Janet Flanner, William Carlos Williams, F. Scott Fitzgerald, James Joyce, and Richard Wright. As librarian, publicist, publisher, and translator, Beach carved out a unique space for herself in English and French letters….”

As always, if we missed an author or book, or if you have a book coming out next month, please email us.

Fiction

• Camptown Ladies by Mari SanGiovanni, Bywater Books
• Detours by Jeffrey Ricker, Bold Strokes Books
• Homestead by Sheila Ortiz Taylor, Spinster Ink
• Junction X by Eastes, Cheyenne Publishing
• The Marbled Swarm by Dennis Cooper, Harper Perennial
• The Mystic Market by Ruth Perkinson, Bella Books
• Through the Valley of the Nest of  Spiders by Samuel Delany, Magnus Books
• The Unreal Life of Sergey Nabokov: A Novel by Paul Russel, Cleis Books
• Where I Wanna Be: The Misunderstanding of Don Ho Finale (The Book of Aurice)by Cedric Quincey, Tinsley Phelps

 

Nonfiction

• Death in Venice: A Queer Film Classic by Will Aitken, Arsenal Pulp Press
• The Handbook of Gender, Sex and Media by Karen Ross, Wiley-Blackwell
• Holy Terror: Lies the Christian Right Tell Us to Deny Gay Equality by Rev. Dr. Mel White, Mangus Books
• The Letters of Sylvia Beach by Sylvia Beach, Columbia University Press
• Queer Jihad: LGBT Muslims on Coming Out, Activism, and the Faith by Afdhere Jama, Oracle Releasing
• Safe Spaces: Making Schools and Communities Welcoming to LGBT Youth by Annemarie Vaccaro, Gerri August and Megan S. Kennedy, Praeger
• Setting the Record Queer: Rethinking Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray and Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway by Dick Schulz, Transcript Verlag
• Small Fire by Julie Marie Wade, Sarabande Books
• Word is Out: A Queer Film Classic by Greg Youmans, Arsenal Pulp Press
• Zero Patience: A Queer Film Classic by Wendy Gay Pearson, Susan Knabe, Arsenal Pulp Press

Mystery

• Holy Rollers by Rob Brynes, Bold Strokes Books
• Wight Mischief by J.L. Merrow, Samhain Publishing, Ltd.

 

LGBT Studies

• Camp Comforts: Reparative Gay Literature in Times of AIDS by Christian Lassen, Transcript Verlag
• The Country We Want to Live In: Hate Crimes and Homophobia in the Lives of Black Lesbian South Africans by Jane Bennett, Nonhlanhla Mkhize, Vasu Reddy, and Relebohile Moletsane, Human Sciences Research Council
• Conditional Spaces: Hong Kong Lesbian Desires and Everyday Life by Denise Tse-Shang Tang, Hong Kong University Press
• Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Aging: Challenges in Research, Practice, and Policy edited by Tarynn M. Witten, A. Evan Eyler, The John Hopkins University Press
• Ecce Homo: The Male-Body-in-Pain as Redemptive Figure by Kent L. Brintnall, University of Chicago Press
• Interrupting Hate: Homphobia in Schools and What Literacy Can Do About It by Mollie V. Blackburn, Teachers College Press
• Lesbian, Gay and Queer Parenting: Families, Intimacies, Genealogies by Stephen Hicks, Palgrave Macmillan
• LGBT Psychology: Research Perspectives and People of African Descent by Michele Lewis and  Isiah Marshall, Springer
• The Lives of Transgender People by Genny Beemyn and Susan Rankin, Columbia University PressInterrupting Hate: Homphobia in Schools and What Literacy Can Do About It by Mollie V. Blackburn, Teachers College Press
• The Pain of Reformation: Spenser, Vulnerability, and the Ethics of Masculinity by Joseph Campana, Fordham University Press
• Queer Times, Queer Becomings edited by E. L. McCallum, Mikko Tuhkanen, SUNY Press
• Seeking the Straight and Narrow: Weight Loss and Sexual Reorientation in Evangelical America by Lynne Gerber, University of Chicago Press
• Spaces between Us: Queer Settler Colonialism and Indigenous Decolonization by Scott Lauria Morgensen, University of Minnesota Press
• Queer Masculinities: A Critical Reader in Education edited by John C. Landreau and Nelson M. Rodriguez,  Springer

 

Romance

• The Closer You Get by L.A Witt, Samhain Publishing, Ltd
• Decoded by Sara Marx, Bella Books
• Entangled by Maria V. Ciletti, Intaglio Publications
• Lucky Loser by Yolanda Wallace, Bold Stokes Books
• Rollercoaster by Karin Kallmaker, Bella Books
• Sheltering Dunes by Radclyffe, Bold Strokes Books
• The Stand-in by Linda Hill, Bella Books
• Two on the Aisle by Robbi McCoy, Bold Strokes Books
• You’ll Hear from Me by Luis Algorri, Bruno Gmunder

 

Erotica

• Better Off Red: Vampire Sorority Sisters Book 1 by Rebekah Weatherspoon, Bold Strokes Books
• History’s Passion: Stories of Sex Before Stonewall edited by Richard Labonte, Bold Stokes Books
• Model Men: Gay Erotic Stories by Neil Plakcy, Cleis Press

 

Speculative Fiction

• Eat Your Heart Out by Dayna Ingram, Brazenhead/Lethe
• Far Too Human by Anitra Lynn, Samhain Publishing, Ltd.

 

 

Anthology

• Windy City Queer: LGBTQ Dispatches from the Third Coast edited by Kathie Berquist, University of Wisconsin Press

 

 

Bio/Memoir

• Conversations and Cosmopolitans: Awkward Moments, Mixed Drinks, and How a Mother and Son Finally Shared Who They Really Are by Robert Rave, Jane Rave, St. Martin Press
• Fit to Serve: Reflections on a Secret Life, Private Struggle, and Public Battle to Become the First Openly Gay U.S. Ambassador by James C. Hormel and  Erin Martin,  Skyhorse Publishing
• The Moroccan Years: A Memoir by Rahal Eks, Oracle Releasing
• Queen Unseen: My Life with the Greatest Rock Band of the 20th Century by Peter Hince, John Blake
• The Reward by R. Singh, Santa Clara Publishing 
• Wrestling Reality: The Life and Mind of Chris Kanyon Wrestling’s Gay Superstar by Chris Kanyon and Ryan Clark, ECW Press

 

 

Young Adult

• Sparks: The Epic, Completely True Blue, (Almost) Holy Quest of Debbieby S. J. Adams, Flux
• Mystery of the Tempest by Sam Cameron, Bold Strokes Books

 

 

Poetry

• When the Only Light Is Fire by Saeed Jones, Sibling Rivalry Press

 

Art/Photography/Illustrated

• Cruising by Chad States, Powerhouse Books
• G is for Groundskeeper by Broderick,  Bruno Gmunder
• Heroes with Hardons – The Big Book of Class Comics by Patrick Fillion,Bruno Gmunder Verlag Gmbh
• Hot for Boys: The Sexy Adventures of Rogue by Zack, Bruno Gmunder
• Naked by Dylan Rosser, Bruno Gmunder
• Players Two by Ricky Day,  Bruno Gmunder
• Still Side by Side by Mioki, Bruno Gmunder
• Voguing and the House Ballroom Scene of New York, 1989-92 by Chantal Regnault, Soul Jazz Books