Tag: City Lights Books

Read Jewelle Gomez’s New Foreword for ‘The Gilda Stories: Expanded 25th Anniversary Edition’

“There were those who didn’t think a black lesbian vampire story—benevolent or not—was such a good idea politically.”

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Looking at ‘In Cold Blood’: Violence, Masculinity, and Compassion

In Cold Blood taught me that I could dive into my shadows, face my would-be killer, plumb my heart for the kind of compassion that the worst kind of men never gave me […]”

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‘The End of San Francisco’ by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore

Perhaps the greatest strength of the book is Sycamore’s ability to capture queer adolescence and immortalize that reality onto the page without sanitizing the struggles.

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‘Robert Duncan in San Francisco’ by Michael Rumaker

This isn’t a memoir solely about the physical presence of Robert Duncan. It’s also about those who he inspired…

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