‘Book Reviews’ Articles

THE LETTER Q: Queer Writers’ Notes to Their Younger Selves Edited by Sarah Moon Arthur A. Levine Books $17.99 hardcover This young adult book is written in the form of letters to each author’s younger self. The list of names here is prodigious as much for talent as for the sheer number of authors who [Continue]

The Mis-Education of Cameron Post by Emily M. Danforth |  Harper Collins  | $17.99 hardcover   Boy oh boy, is it ever a great time for gay teens! Here’s the kind of story many of my friends who were miserable about liking girls and shunned for it would have loved back when we were in [Continue]

  Pauline Kael: A Life in the Dark by Brian Kellow  |  Penguin  |  $27.95 hardcover Another new book to do with the wonderful film critic Pauline Kael! Though last month’s review of Lucking Out by James Wolcott is still my favorite, Brian Kellow does an admirable job of researching and writing about the life [Continue]

Gunn’s Golden Rules: Life’s Little Lessons for Making It Work by Tim Gunn Simon & Schuster $15 paperback Tim Gunn, best known for his role on the television show Project Runway, dares to lead us out of this dark age of bad behavior. Even if he doesn’t much care for parties, he certainly knows how [Continue]

The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach Little Brown $25.99 hardcover Let me first say that I am not a huge fan of books of a certain length. For one, I have these reviews to turn in every month, so I tend not to pick up books that weigh a ton that might take more [Continue]

  Cuttyhunk: Life on the Rock by Margo Solod  |  Solod  |  $19.95 paperback   This self-published memoir is a real hoot. Margo Solod is a real character and Cuttyhunk is where she made her home after deciding to give up on the theatre scene in Providence where she was a theatrical lighting technician. Her [Continue]

2030: The Real Story of What Happens to America by Albert Brooks  |  St. Martins Press  |  $25.99 hardcover Don’t mess around waiting for this to come out in paperback in a year or two! It’s too funny, savvy, wise, and wonderful to wait for that long! Short chapters from different characters’ points of view [Continue]

THE MAN IN THE GRAY FLANNEL SUIT by Jon Jon Goulian | Random House | $25 hardcover Jon Jon Goulian is unabashed enough to share his fears and faux pas and high fashion sense in a memoir. I was at times impatient with him, hoping he would ultimately sort something out and get to the [Continue]

THE FINKLER QUESTION by Howard Jacobson Bloomsbury | $15 paperback Okay, so a best-selling book that won the 2010 Man Booker Prize doesn’t need much more praise, but I’ve been poring over this novel for a month and it’s really grown on me. I was unsure if I was going to even finish it during [Continue]

QUEER INJUSTICE by Joel L. Mogul, Andrea J. Ritchie & Kay Whitlock Beacon Press $27.95 hardcover Warning: this book will both depress and outrage you, but you should read it anyway. If you don’t know the ways you are being oppressed, how an you possibly fight your oppressors? Gay men, lesbians, bisexuals and transgendered people [Continue]