New in February: Sarah Schulman, Christopher Bram, Peter Cameron, and Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore
Author: Edit Team
February 1, 2012
February has arrived and so has an avalanche of winter books. This month you can pick up new releases from Christopher Bram, Sarah Schulman, Peter Cameron, Scotty Bowers, V. K. Powell, and Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore.
- In her new memoir, The Gentrification of the Mind (University of Chicago Press), novelist and playwright Sarah Schulman mixes personal reminiscences with astute cultural analysis. The memoir revisits the height of the AIDS epidemic (1981–1996) in New York City. Schulman recalls “how much of the rebellious queer culture, cheap rents, and a vibrant downtown arts movement vanished almost overnight to be replaced by gay conservative spokespeople and mainstream consumerism.” She details “her experience as a witness to the loss of a generation’s imagination and the consequences of that loss.”
- This month famed writer Peter Cameron releases his long awaited new novel Coral Glynn (Farrar, Straus and Giroux). The publisher blurb states, “When a child’s game goes violently awry in the woods surrounding Hart House, a great shadow—love, perhaps—descends upon its inhabitants…” Sounds haunting and beautiful. And we here at Lambda have a penchant for the haunted and the beautiful.
- If you are in the mood for a dishy tell-all then this is your lucky month. Grove is releasing Full Service: My Adventures in Hollywood and the Secret Sex Lives of the Stars by Scotty Bowers. Bowers apparently arranged “tricks for LA’s rich and famous. ” He reportedly went to bed with thousands of people and coordinated sexual liaisons for many more. His own sexual partners included “Edith Piaf, Spencer Tracy, Vivien Leigh, Cary Grant, and the abdicated King of England Edward VIII, and he arranged tricks or otherwise crossed paths with Tennessee Williams, Charles Laughton, Katharine Hepburn, Rita Hayworth, Errol Flynn, Noël Coward….” Whew!
As always, if we missed an author or book, or if you have a book coming out next month, please email us.
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Fiction
- Haunting Whispers by V. K. Powell, Bold Strokes Books
- Coral Glynn: A Novel by Peter Cameron, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Leaving Now by Arleen Pare, Harbour
- Legacy of Love by by Marianne K. Martin, Bywater Books
- On Collecting Stamps by Håkan Lindquist, Bruno Gmunder
- The Philosopher Prince by Paul Waters, Overlook TP
- Through the Valley of the Nest of Spiders by Samuel Delany, Magnus Books
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Nonfiction
- Cobra Killer: Gay Porn, Murder, and the Manhunt to Bring the Killers to Justice by Peter A. Conway and Andrew E. Stoner, Mangus Books
- Eminent Outlaws: The Gay Writers Who Changed America by Christopher Bram, Twelve
- The Gentrification of the Mind: Witness to a Lost Imagination by Sarah Shulman, University of California Press
- Holy Terror: Lies the Christian Right Tells Us to Deny Gay Equality by Mel White, Magnus Books
- The Monogamy Gap: Men, Love, and the Reality of Cheating by Eric Anderson, Oxford University Press
- Sodom on the Thames: Sex, Love, and Scandal in Wilde Times by Morris B. Kaplan, Gerri August and Megan S. Kennedy, Cornell University Press
- Western Queers in China: Flight to the Land of Oz by D. E. Mungello, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
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Mystery
- Consequence of Silence by Gabrielle Goldsby, Bold Strokes Books
- Back to Salem by Alex Marcoux, Bella Books
- Derrick Steele: Private Dick The Case of the Hollywood Hustler by Zavo, Bold Strokes Books
- Haunting Whispers by J.L. Merrow, Samhain Publishing, Ltd.
- Lake on the Mountain: A Dan Sharp Mystery by Jeffrey Round, Dundurn
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LGBT Studies
- Beyond the Nation: Diasporic Filipino Literature and Queer Reading by Martin Ponce, NYU Press
- Bodies of Evidence: The Practice of Queer Oral History by Nan Alamilla Boyd (Editor) and Horacio N. Roque Ramïrez (Editor), Oxford University Press, USA
- Queer Commodities: Contemporary US Fiction, Consumer Capitalism, and Gay and Lesbian Subcultures edited by Guy Davidson, Palgrave Macmillan
- Seeking the Straight and Narrow: Weight Loss and Sexual Reorientation in Evangelical America by Lynne Gerber, University of Chicago Press
- Sexual Politics: Sexuality, Family Planning, and the British Left from the 1880s to the Present Day by Stephen Brooke, Oxford University Press, USA
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Romance
- Errors and Omissions by Lee James, Dreamspinner Press
- A Frozen Echo by Linda Kay Silva, Bella Books
- Fugitives of Love by Lisa Girolami, Bold Strokes Books
- Lucky Loser by Yolanda Wallace, Bold Stokes Books
- Romeo Fails by Amy Briant, Bella Books
- Wholehearted by Ronica Black, Bold Strokes Books
- Wingmen by Ensan Case, Cheyenne Publishing
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Erotica
- Give It To Me by Sean Wolfe, Kensington Books
- Nice Butt: Gay Anal Eroticism by Shane Allison, Bold Strokes Books
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Speculative Fiction
- Burn by TJ Lune, Dreamspinner Press
- Desert World by Lyn Gala, Dreamspinner Press
- Water Waltz by Hayley B. James, Dreamspinner Press
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Anthology
- Perfect Light: Personal Writings by Gay and Lesbian Buddhists edited by Don Wiese, Magnus Books
- Why Are Faggots So Afraid of Faggots?: Flaming Challenges to Masculinity, Objectification, and the Desire to Conform by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore, AK Press
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Bio/Memoir
- Andre Techine by Bill Marshall, Manchester University Press
- Blackouts and Breakdowns by Mark Brennan Rosenberg, Newcomer Press
- Full Service: My Adventures in Hollywood and the Secret Sex Lives of the Stars by Scotty Bowers, Grove/Atlantic
- Gypsy Boy: My Life in the Secret World of the Romany Gypsies by Mikey Walsh, Thomas Dunne Books
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Young Adult
- The Miseducation of Cameron Post by Emily M. Danforth, Balzer + Bray
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Poetry
- Cities of Sameness by Nicholas YB Wong, Sibling Rivalry Press
- He Will Laugh by Douglas Ray, Lethe Press
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Art/Photography/Illustrated
- Bike Boy Rides Again by Zack, Bruno Gmunder
- Disclosed Desires by Roberto Chiovitti, Bruno Gmunder
- Luminosity by Mark Henderson, Bruno Gmunder
