New in June: Keith Boykin, Carsen Taite, Colm Tóibín, and Sarah Terez Rosenblum

Author: Edit Team

June 3, 2012

Summer is on its way and so are a cavalcade of new books! This month you can pick up new releases from Colm Tóibín, Sarah Terez Rosenblum, and Linda Hirshman.

In New Ways to Kill Your Mother (Simon and Schuster), celebrated novelist and critic Colm Tóibín delves into the complicated relationships writers have with their families and how those familial dynamics are reflected in their work:

From Jane Austen’s aunts to Tennessee Williams’s mentally ill sister, the impact of intimate family dynamics can be seen in many of literature’s greatest works. Tóibín, celebrated both for his award-winning fiction and his provocative book reviews and essays, and currently the Mellon Professor in the Humanities at Columbia, traces and interprets those intriguing, eccentric, often twisted family ties in New Ways to Kill Your Mother. Through the relationship between W. B. Yeats and his father, Thomas Mann and his children, and J. M. Synge and his mother, Tóibín examines a world of relations, richly comic or savage in its implications.

Soft Skull Press is releasing Herself When She’s Missing, a new novel from Sarah Terez Rosenblum. Herself When She’s Missing is described as an inspired modern tale of  “a  girl desperate for something like, but not quite love.”

This month, Magnus Books publishes the long-awaited true crime novel Cobra Killer:

For the first time authors Peter A. Conway and Andrew E. Stoner tell in full detail the twisted story of a pair of young, aspiring gay adult film producers whose quest for fame at any cost leads to the gruesome murder of the man who stands in their way, gay porn entrepreneur Bryan Kocis. News of the killing of the forty-four-year-old […]in his suburban home sends shock waves through the bucolic Pennsylvania town.

Also this month expect new releases from St. Sukie de la Croix, Carsen Taite, and a new edited collection by author and activist Keith Boykin.

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

 

Fiction

• Eyes of  Water & Stone by Cedric Brown, Blurb
• The Galaxie and Other Rides by Joise Sigle, Livingston Press
• Herself When She’s Missing: A Novel by Sarah Terez Rosenblum, Soft Skull Press
• The Miles by Robert Lennon, Kensington Publishing 
• In the Unlikely Event… by Saxon Bennett, Bella Books
• We Have a Pie by Robert McVey, Livingston Press

 

Nonfiction

• Chicago Whispers: A History of LGBT Chicago before Stonewall by St. Sukie de la Croix, University of Wisconsin Press
• Cobra Killer: Gay Porn, Murder and the Manhunt to Bring the Killers to Justice by Andrew Stoner and Peter A Conway, Magnus Books
• Does This Baby Make Me Look Straight?: Confessions of a Gay Dad by Dan Bucatinsky, Touchstone
• For Colored Boys Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Still Not Enough: Coming of Age, Coming Out, and Coming Home edited by Keith Boykin, Magnus Books
• Mom Knows: Reflections on Love, Gay Pride, and Taking Action  edited by Catherine Tuerk, Catherine Tuerk 
• Love, Christopher Street: Reflections of New York City edited by Thomas Keith, Vantage Point Press 
• The Fan Who Knew Too Much: Aretha Franklin, the Rise of the Soap Opera, Children of the Gospel Church, and Other Meditations by Anthony Heilbut, Knopf 
• A Fundamental Freedom: Why Republicans, Conservatives, and Libertarians Should Support Gay Rights by David Lampo,  Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• New Ways to Kill Your Mother by Colm Tóibín, Simon and Schuster
• A Short Guide to a Happy Marriage: Gay Edition by Sharon Gilchrest O’Neil, Cider Mill Press Press
• Victory: The Triumphant Gay Revolution by Linda Hirshman, HarperCollins

Mystery

• Missing by PJ Trebelhorn, Bold Strokes Books
• Slingshot by Carsen Taite,  Bold Strokes Books 

 

LGBT Studies

• Male Homosexuality in West Germany: Between Persecution and Freedom, 1945-69  by Clayton J. Whisnant, Palgrave Macmillan  
• Rethinking the Gay and Lesbian Movement by Marc Stein, Routledge 
• Social Change and Intersectional Activism: The Spirit of Social Movement edited by Sharon Doetsch-Kidder, Palgrave Macmillan
• Queer Youth Suicide, Culture and Identity: Unliveable Lives? by Rob Cover, Ashgate Pub Co

 

Romance

• California Dreamers by Mark Abramson, Lethe Press
• Come Unto These Yellow Sands by Josh Lanyon, Samhain Publishing, LTD
• The Marrying Kind by Ken O’Neill, Bold Strokes Books
• Rhapsody by KG MacGregor, Bella Books
• Touch Me Gently by D. Jackson Leigh, Bold Strokes Books
• Writing on the Wall by Jenna Rae, Bella Books

 

Erotica

• Girl Fever: 69 Stories of Sudden Sex for Lesbians by Sacchi Green, Cleis Press   
• The Legend of The Ditto Twins by Jerry Douglas, Bruno Gmunder
• Sweat: Gay Jock Erotica by Todd Gregory, Bold Stokes Books

 

Speculative Fiction

• Bloodlines by Marcus James, InGroup Press
• Running Wild by Joely Skye, ECW Press

Bio/Memoir

• The Campaign Within: A Mayor’s Private Journey to Public Leadership by Neil G. Giulianos, Magnus Books
• Does This Baby Make Me Look Straight?: Confessions of a Gay Dad by Dan Bucatinsky, Touchstone
• Hidden: Reflections on Gay Life, AIDS, and Spiritual Desire by Richard Giannone , Fordham University Press
• Oscar Wilde – The Great Drama of His Life: How His Tragedy Reflected His Personality by Ashley H. Robins, Sussex Academics Press

 

Art/Photography/Illustrated

• Al-Qaeda’s Super Secret Weapon by David Zelman, Soft Skull Press 
• The Homoerotic Photograph: Male Images from Durieu/ Delacroix to Mapplethorpe by Allen Ellenzweig, Columbia University Press
• Inside Out: Portraits of Cross-gender Children, by Sarah Wong and Ellen de Visser, W Books
• Spandex – Fast and Hard by Martin Eden, Titan Books
• Tom of Finland. Vol. 2 – Bikers edited by Dian Hanson, Tashen
• Turnon: Muscles by Verschiedene Künstler, Bruno Gmunder

 

 

Poetry

• Skin Shift by Matthew Hittinger,  Sibling Rivalry Press