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A Gathering Storm
a novel by Jameson Currier
Inspired by true events, A Gathering Storm begins in a small university town in the South when a gay college student is beaten. In the ensuing days as the young man struggles to survive in a hospital, the residents of the town and the university find themselves at the center of a growing media frenzy as the crime reverberates through the local and national consciousness. Using details and elements from actual hate crimes committed against gay men, Currier weaves personal and spiritual layers into a timely and emotional story.
A Gathering Storm
by Jameson Currier
Pub date:10/09/2014
ISBN-13: 978-1-937627-20-1
Paperback, 354 pages, 6” x 9”, $20
also available in digital formats
A Strange and Separate People
a play by Jon Marans
A contemporary story of betrayal and new beginnings, A Strange and Separate People by Jon Marans is an emotionally rich new play about a young Manhattan couple who find their world shaken when a gay doctor’s passion for his new religious beliefs challenges theirs and questions the meaning of love. This special edition includes Marans’ script along with a foreword by the playwright, theatrical production photos, special selected material, and afterwords by LGBT activists Jayson Littman and Chaim Levin.
A Strange and Separate People
by Jon Marans
Pub date: 11/01/2012
ISBN-13: 978-0-9832851-5-1
Paperback, 122 pages, 6” x 9”, $16
also available in digital formats
Based on a True Story
a novel by Jameson Currier
Two gay couples meet at an idyllic mountain cabin to celebrate Thanksgiving. As the four men reminisce of their college years, coming out, and recall their past friends and former lovers, a shocking and fatal tale of obsession unfolds.
Based on a True Story
by Jameson Currier
Pub date:11/03/2015
ISBN-13: 978-1-937627-04-1
Paperback, 158 pages, 6” x 9”, $16
also available in digital formats
| Bob the Book a novel by David Pratt Meet ‘Bob the Book,’ a gay book for sale in a Greenwich Village bookstore, where he falls in love with another book, Moishe. But an unlikely customer separates the young lovers. As Bob wends his way through used book bins, paper bags, knapsacks, and lecture halls, hoping to be reunited with Moishe, he meets a variety of characters, both book and human, including Angela, a widowed copy of Jane Austen’s Mansfield Park, and two other separated lovers, Neil and Jerry, near victims of a book burning. Among their owners are Alfred and Duane, whose on-again, off-again relationship unites and separates our book friends. Will Bob find Moishe? Will Jerry and Neil be reunited? Will Alfred and Duane make it work? Read ‘Bob the Book’ to find all the answers... Bob the Book by David Pratt Pub date: 10/01/2010 ISBN-13: 978-0-9844707-1-6 Paperback, 192 pages, 6” x 9”, $16 also available in audio and digital formats |
Dancing on the Moon
short stories about AIDS by Jameson Currier
This debut collection of short stories, first published in 1993, was praised for its courageous and compassionate depiction of the impact of AIDS on gay men and their families and friends.
Dancing on the Moon
by Jameson Currier
Pub date:10/16/2011
ISBN-13: 978-0-9844707-3-0
Paperback, 200 pages, 6” x 9”, $16
also available in digital formats
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Desire: Tales of
New Orleans stories by William Sterling Walker Desire: Tales of New Orleans, a debut collection of short fiction by William Sterling Walker, delves into the gay demimonde in New Orleans before the flood. Circles of friends and acquaintances—lawyers and supermarket clerks, drifters, painters and musicians, cabaret singers and writers—alternately dominate the landscape and fade into the background. However they identify themselves, they speak a common language—funny, sexy, pithy, sometimes bitchy, always on-target. But perhaps the main character in the book is the city itself. A litany of place names evokes New Orleans’ visceral hold on these men; even when they are far away, the memory of the city haunts them. William Sterling Walker’s vividly imagined characters embody the unquenchable spirit of place that would go on to survive unimaginable natural disasters, both physical and personal. Like the city, they are unforgettable in their boldness and fascination. Desire: Tales of New Orleans by William Sterling Walker Pub date: 11/01/2012 ISBN 13: 978-1-937627-02-7 Paperback, 186 pages, 5.5” x 8”, $18 also available in digital formats |
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Desire, Lust, Passion, Sex stories by Jameson Currier Desire, Lust, Passion, Sex brings together twenty stories by Jameson Currier—including six never-before-published works as well as the author’s widely praised short fiction previously published in literary journals, Web sites, and award-winning anthologies such as Best Gay Erotica, Best American Erotica, and Men on Men. In this new collection, the author meticulously details the search for love, romance, and partnership between gay men, and his characteristically spare prose brings into sharp relief the sometimes maddening traits that constitute a person’s romantic ideal and shows how the quest for a meaningful relationship can transform—or derail—the course of our lives. Desire, Lust, Passion, Sex by Jameson Currier Pub date:07/15/2013 ISBN-13: 978-0-9832851-1-3 Paperback, 275 pages, 6” x 9”, $20 also available in digital formats |
In a Whirl of Delusion
a novel by J.R. Greenwell
With the help of a big-hearted team of misfits, Chester Davis, a tall, gawky refugee from the Morning Glory Trailer Park in Birmingham, is transformed into Daphne DeLight, an aspiring drag queen with the delusional quest of becoming the next Miss Gay Drag Queen Alabama. Or is it? Both Chester and Daphne are blessed with an inspirational naivety and ambition that won’t surrender to any humiliation. Quirky, clever, and infused with a Southern gothic campiness, In a Whirl of Delusion is a marvelous series of misadventures on a road toward love and fame.
In a Whirl of Delusion
by J.R. Greenwell
Pub date 04/05/2018
Print ISBN 13: 978-1-937627-24-9
Paperback, 238 pages, 6” x 9”, $18
also available in digital formats
Let’s Shut Out the World
essays by Kevin Bentley
Bitingly funny and at times harrowingly sad, Let’s Shut Out the World traces the man-hungry and misanthropic journey of an intensely bibliophilistic young man following his natural bent from a desolate Texas landscape of tumbleweeds, Jesus freaks, and compliant straight boys to the gay capital of San Francisco in pursuit of sex, drugs, a lover, and more.
Whether describing having his hair styled by a gang of eighth-grade bullies; staging a Satan festival in the main hall of Greenvale High complete with black robes, black candles, and raw chickens; succumbing to a sneezing fit inside the healing Sanctuary at Chimayó; or indulging in inappropriate sex with a caregiver, Bentley writes with a pen dipped in blood, indignation, and grim whimsy.
Let’s Shut Out the World is both prequel and sequel to the author’s rough-and-ready romantic escapades detailed in his diaries, the Lambda Literary Award finalist for memoir, Wild Animals I Have Known. Included in the reprint from Chelsea Station Editions is Bentley’s essay, “When I Was a Poet,” previously only available in the now out-of-print anthology, Sex By the Book.
Let’s Shut Out the World
by Kevin Bentley
Pub date: 07/13/2016
ISBN-13: 978-1-937627-29-4
Paperback, 196 pages, 6” x 9”, $16
also available in digital formats
Love, Christopher Street
Edited by Thomas Keith
Originally issued in 2012 by Vantage Point Press, Love, Christopher Street, a valentine to New York City, was a top ten favorite book on the 2013 American Library Association “Over the Rainbow List of LGBT Books for Adult Readers.”
Representing some of the most talented writers at work today, the 26 original essays in Love, Christopher Street encompass revealing, intense, profound, funny, personal, and queer reflections that span forty years of gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender life in the Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens, and Staten Island. Together these essays create an LGBT love letter to New York City from native New Yorkers, American transplants, and international writers. This book continues the Lambda Award-winning series of LGBT tributes to great cities.
Contributors include Mark Ameen, Penny Arcade, Christopher Bram, Brendan Fay, Thomas Glave, Jewelle Gomez, Aaron Hamburger, Martin Hyatt, Fay Jacobs, G. Winston James, Michele Karlsberg, Shaun Levin, Amos Mac, David McConnell, Val McDermid, Rev. Irene Monroe, Rabbi Andrea Myers, Nicky Paraiso, Felice Picano, Charles Rice-González, Eddie Sarfaty, Justine Saracen, Bob Smith, Shawn Syms, Charlie Vázquez, Ocean Vuong, and Kathleen Warnock.
Love, Christopher Street
Edited by Thomas Keith
Pub date: 06/15/2013
ISBN 13: 978-1-937627-07-2
Paperback, 408 pages, 6” x 9”, $20
Also available in digital formats
Paul’s Cat
an illustrated tale by Jameson Currier
Trying to fulfill a promise, a young man finds himself on an unexpected journey when Paul’s cat escapes and a surreal adventure through memories begins.
From the author ofThe Haunted Heart and The Wolf at the Door, this special edition of Paul’s Cat by Jameson Currier features illustrations drawn by the author.
Paul’s Cat
by Jameson Currier
Pub Date: 06/01/2022
ISBN-13: 978-1-937627-81-2
Paperback, 66 pages, 5.25” x 8”, $12
also available in digital formats
A Pornographer
memoir by Arch Brown
In 2012, in the months following the death of playwright and filmmaker Arch Brown at the age of 76, an unpublished manuscript was discovered while archiving his possessions, a memoir titled A Pornographer. In it, Brown, whose career as a director of sex films stretched from 1967 to 1985, recounts his interviews in the late 1960s and early 1970s with many of the men and women who wanted to star in his sex films—some who did, others who did not. Here, he is all at once receptionist, gopher, casting agent, writer, director, stagehand, cameraman, talent scout, friend, and on-the-spot psychiatrist. You don’t need to have viewed any of Arch Brown’s sex films from this era to appreciate this memoir. In fact, Brown goes out of his way to not mention the titles of any of his films and he only identifies his cast of characters by fictional first names. The result is that A Pornographer is an historical gem, an unexpectedly insightful psychological view of the performers who were drawn to having sex in front of a camera and how and why audiences responded to them
A Pornographer
by Arch Brown
Pub date 11/09/2017
ISBN: 978-1-937627-30-0
Paperback, 314 pages, 6” x 9”, $20
also available in hardcover and digital formats
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Still Dancing new and selected stories by Jameson Currier In Still Dancing author Jameson Currier brings together twenty short stories spanning three decades of the impact of the AIDS epidemic on the gay community. Along with stories from Currier’s debut collection, Dancing on the Moon, praised by The Village Voice as “defiant and elegiac,” are ten newly selected stories written by one of our preeminent masters of the short narrative form. Still Dancing by Jameson Currier Pub date:10/16/2011 ISBN-13: 978-0-9832851-8-2 Paperback, 330 pages, 6” x 9”, $20 also available in digital formats |
The Candlelight Ghost
an illustrated tale by Jameson Currier
When a couple purchases the abandoned Candlelight Theater, its previous owner warns that the ghost of a dead actress still haunts the theater. As the ghost begins to intimidate her new owners, her tragic fate is uncovered.
From the author ofThe Haunted Heart and The Wolf at the Door, this special edition of Paul’s Cat by Jameson Currier features illustrations drawn by the author.
The Candlelight Ghost
by Jameson Currier
Pub date: 03/01/2023
ISBN-13: 978-1-937627-85-0
Paperback, 80 pages, 5.25” x 8”, $12
also available in digital formats
The Forever Marathon
a novel by Jameson Currier
A wickedly delightful war of wits and whines between longtime companions during a two-day fight.
From their meeting as struggling graduate students in Manhattan to becoming the owners of expensive foreign cars and a country house in Pennsylvania, Jesse and Adam have spent twenty-four cantankerous years as significant others—half of their lives. Now in their late forties, a small domestic fight swells between the gay couple into a major battle, ensnaring a talkative, opportunistic young man as collateral damage.
The Forever Marathon
by Jameson Currier
Pub date:11/14/2013
ISBN-13: 978-1-937627-13-3
Paperback, 216 pages, 6” x 9”, $18
also available in digital formats
The Haunted Heart and Other Tales
ghost stories by Jameson Currier
Twelve stories of gay men and the memories that haunt them.
Jameson Currier modernizes the traditional ghost story with gay lovers, loners, activists, and addicts, blending history and contemporary issues of the gay community with the unexpected of the supernatural.
The Haunted Heart and Other Tales
by Jameson Currier
Pub date:10/01/2012
ISBN-13: 978-0-9832851-9-9
Paperback, 218 pages, 6” x 9”, $16
also available in digital formats
The Temperamentals
a play by Jon Marans
“Temperamental” was code for “homosexual” in the early 1950s, part of a secret language gay men used to communicate. The Temperamentals, Jon Marans’ hit off-Broadway play, tells the story of two men—the communist Harry Hay and the Viennese refugee and designer Rudi Gernreich—as they fall in love while building the Mattachine Society, the first gay rights organization in the pre-Stonewall United States. This special edition includes Marans’ script and production photos from the off-Broadway production, along with a foreword by actor Michael Urie; an introduction by activist David Mixner; a look at Gernreich’s fashion career by journalist Joel Nikolaou, and an afterword on Harry Hay by journalist Michael Bronski.
The Temperamentals
a play by Jon Marans
pub date: 03/08/2011
ISBN 13: 978-0-9844707-9-2
Paperback, 134 pages, 6” x 9”, $16
also available in digital formats
The Third Buddha
a novel by Jameson Currier
Like Currier’s previous work, the author once again targets the big themes of modern gay life in his new novel: identity, faith, homophobia, romance, and the complexity of relationships, but at the heart of The Third Buddha are the little acts of random kindness that continue to astonish in times of crisis and war. Jameson Currier expands his richly detailed storytelling to an international level in this new novel, weaving together the intertwining stories of the search for a missing journalist in the Bamiyan region of Afghanistan with a young man’s search for his older brother in Manhattan in the aftermath of 9-11. The result is a sweeping, multi-cultural novel of what it means to be a gay citizen of the world.
The Third Buddha
by Jameson Currier
Pub date:08/01/2011
ISBN-13: 978-0-9844707-2-3
Paperback, 328 pages, 6” x 9”, $20
also available in digital formats
The Troubleseeker
a novel by Alan Lessik
The Troubleseeker tells the contemporary odyssey of Antinio, a native-born Cuban who confronts his gay identity in post-revolution Cuba and as a refugee in America. Narrated by the ancient Roman Emperor and demigod Hadrian, The Troubleseeker weaves Cuban Santería traditions with classical Greek mythology to depict Antinio’s quest to achieve both freedom and love.
The Troubleseeker
by Alan Lessik
Pub date:09/22/2016
ISBN-13: 978-1-937627-27-0
Paperback, 270 pages, 6” x 9”, $20
also available in digital formats
The Wolf at the Door
a novel by Jameson Currier
Ghosts? Angels? Hallucinations? When a death occurs at Le Petite Paradis, a guesthouse in the French Quarter of New Orleans, the spirit world becomes unsettled, or so Avery Greene Dalyrymple III, the co-owner believes. The son and grandson of Southern evangelists, Avery is also an overworked and overwrought middle-aged gay man, a cynical “big-time drinker and sinner” fairly certain he can maintain a family of “other deviants and delinquents stumbling along Bourbon Street” to keep him company. But Avery is also the only person in contact with the spirit world on his property—ghosts from the house’s origins during the 1820s—and he must use the history left behind from another ghost—a gay man from the 1970s—to find a way to restore peace to his household and rejuvenate his faith.
The Wolf at the Door
by Jameson Currier
Pub date:04/01/2010
ISBN-13: 978-0984470709
Paperback, 282 pages, 6” x 9”, $16
also available in digital formats
True Religion
a novel by J.L. Weinberg
An unexpected encounter with an otherworldly spirit at a holiday party in the Orenda Valley sends Seth Davis, a gay journalist from Manhattan, on a profound religious journey. Along the way, Seth stumbles into a quarreling coven of witches in the charming tourist town of Hope Springs, Pennsylvania, formerly known as Hell’s Ferry, and one of the most haunted destinations in America. As Seth learns more of the town’s remarkable history, he also uncovers his own shocking past, and in order to seek peace for his troubled soul, he must determine the fate of the coven, the town, and the entire Orenda Valley. True Religion, J.L. Weinberg’s debut novel, is a genre-bending fusion of paranormal horror, spiritual therapy, American history, and New Age enlightenment.
True Religion
by J.L. Weinberg
Pub date: 10/31/2015
ISBN-13: 978-1-937627-03-4
Paperback, 352 pages, 6” x 9”, $20
also available in digital formats
Until My Heart Stops
intimate writings by Jameson Currier
Until My Heart Stops assembles more than fifty works of narrative nonfiction written by the author over a thirty-year period, including many published during the height of the AIDS epidemic. The result is a searing personal and poignant memoir of an artist finding his voice during difficult times. Once again Currier doesn’t shy away from revealing personal moments and emotions, this time his own, including his love and retreat from the theater, his grappling with boyfriends and long-term relationships, and the details into his own medical diagnosis of HCM—hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, a condition of excessive thickening of the heart muscle for which there is no apparent cause or cure.
Until My Heart Stops
by Jameson Currier
Pub date:12/01/2015
ISBN-13: 978-1-937627-17-1
Paperback, 428 pages, 6” x 9”, $20
also available in digital formats
What Color Is Your Hoodie?
Essays on Black Gay Identity
by Jarrett Neal
In thirteen candid and provocative essays, author Jarrett Neal reports on the status of black gay men in the new millennium, examining classism among black gay men, racism within the gay community, representations of the black male body within gay pornography, and patriarchal threats to the survival of both black men and gay men. What Color Is Your Hoodie? employs the author’s own quest for visibility—through bodybuilding, creative writing, and teaching, among other pursuits—as the genesis for an insightful and critical dialogue that ultimately symbolizes the entire black gay community’s struggle for recognition and survival.
What Color Is Your Hoodie?
Essays on Black Gay Identity
by Jarrett Neal
Pub date: 09/10/2015
ISBN-13: 978-1-937627-22-5
Paperback, 176 pages, 6” x 9”, $18
also available in digital formats
Essays on Black Gay Identity
by Jarrett Neal
In thirteen candid and provocative essays, author Jarrett Neal reports on the status of black gay men in the new millennium, examining classism among black gay men, racism within the gay community, representations of the black male body within gay pornography, and patriarchal threats to the survival of both black men and gay men. What Color Is Your Hoodie? employs the author’s own quest for visibility—through bodybuilding, creative writing, and teaching, among other pursuits—as the genesis for an insightful and critical dialogue that ultimately symbolizes the entire black gay community’s struggle for recognition and survival.
What Color Is Your Hoodie?
Essays on Black Gay Identity
by Jarrett Neal
Pub date: 09/10/2015
ISBN-13: 978-1-937627-22-5
Paperback, 176 pages, 6” x 9”, $18
also available in digital formats
What Comes Around
a novel of linked stories by Jameson Currier
A quirky, touching, and unique novel of a single gay man’s quest to find a meaningful relationship. Written over a period of twenty-five years, these fifteen linked short stories—many of which have appeared in literary magazines and anthologies—exploit the narrator’s wit and heightened self-examination by utilizing a second person point of view technique. Covering four decades of misadventures of looking for the right man, Currier’s unnamed narrator bumps through blind dates, break-ups, unexpected seductions, tragedies, and imperfect affairs. Currier was awarded a New York Foundation for the Arts fellowship for the stories included in What Comes Around.
What Comes Around
by Jameson Currier
Pub date:11/01/2012
ISBN-13: 978-1-937627-05-8
Paperback, 170 pages, 6” x 9”, $16
also available in digital formats
Where the Rainbow Ends
a novel by Jameson Currier
A powerful, compelling, and heartfelt first novel of a young gay man's quest for faith, family, and understanding during the early years of the AIDS epidemic.
“Currier is adept at drawing a fi ne line between the erotic and the tragic, and at telling stories that ‘although personal, are also the stories of our community.’ Where the Rainbow Ends feels like the fictionalized history of a generation of gay men.”
--The New York Times Book Review
Where the Rainbow Ends
by Jameson Currier
Pub date:12/24/2011
ISBN-13: 978-0-9832851-6-8
Paperback, 390 pages, 6” x 9”, $20
also available in digital formats
Who the Hell is Rachel Wells?
stories by J.R. Greenwell
Full of snappy and sharp Southern characters, Who the Hell is Rachel Wells? by J.R. Greenwell is a debut collection of clever, big-hearted tales of spunky souls and damaged hearts. Both serious and silly, bittersweet and joyous, these unique eleven short stories introduce a wise and wonderful new author.
Who the Hell is Rachel Wells?
by J.R. Greenwell
Pub date: 09/12/2013
ISBN 13: 978-1-937627-12-6
Paperback, 222 pages, 6” x 9”, $18
also available in digital formats
Why Didn’t Someone Warn You About Prince Charming?
stories by Jameson Currier
Blending heroic male icons, literary archetypes, gay relationships, and an observant, sharp humor, Jameson Currier’s Why Didn’t Someone Warn You About Prince Charming? collects twelve new tales of bad romances, backstage affairs, bittersweet recipes, and broken hearts.
Why Didn’t Someone Warn You About Prince Charming?
by Jameson Currier
Pub date:10/16/2019
ISBN-13: 978-1-937627-36-2
Paperback, 180 pages, 6” x 9”, $18
also available in digital formats
Wild Animals I Have Known: Polk Street Diaries and After
memoir by Kevin Bentley
In the late ’70s there was a massive migration of young gay men to San Francisco. They left home in droves, traveling by plane, bus, Pinto or Volkswagen towards a life free from discrimination. Struggling to make ends meet, many worked in bookstores and restaurants, all the while taking advantage of a scene of sexual hedonism. Kevin Bentley faithfully kept a frank, literate diary of his experiences as this generation of gay men tumbled into the era of AIDS. A Lambda Literary award finalist in Autobiography, this edition available from Chelsea Station Editions features a new afterword by the author.
Wild Animals I Have Known: Polk Street Diaries and After
by Kevin Bentley
ISBN-13: 978-1-937627-28-7
Paperback, 226 pages, 6” x 9”, $16
also available in digital formats