Events

Justin Spring is the author of The Secret Historian: The Life and Times of Samuel Steward, Professor, Tattoo Artist, and Sexual Renegade (Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, $30 hb, less 10% in the store).

Drawn from the secret, never-before-seen diaries, journals, and sexual records of the novelist, poet, and university professor Samuel M. Steward, Secret Historian is a sensational reconstruction of one of the more extraordinary hidden lives of the twentieth century. An intimate friend of Gertrude Stein, Alice B. Toklas, and Thornton Wilder, Steward maintained a secret sex life from childhood on, and documented these experiences in brilliantly vivid (and often very funny) detail.
After leaving the world of academe to become Phil Sparrow, a tattoo artist on Chicago's notorious South State Street, Steward worked closely with Alfred Kinsey on his landmark sex research. During the early 1960s, Steward changed his name and identity once again, this time to write exceptionally literate, upbeat pro-homosexual pornography under the name of Phil Andros.
Until today he has been known only as Phil Sparrow--but an extraordinary archive of his papers, lost since his death in 1993, has provided Justin Spring with the material for an exceptionally compassionate and brilliantly illuminating life-and-times biography. More than merely the story of one remarkable man, Secret Historian is a moving portrait of homosexual life long before Stonewall and gay liberation.

Here's the link to a remarkable recent review, with video, in the New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/26/books/26secret.html?_r=1

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Sacchi Green, Kathleen Warnock, and DL King

with Contributors to Their Lesbian Erotica
Collections

Together these author/editors have published a number of
anthologies: 

Best Lesbian Erotica 2010, edited by Kathleen
Warnock

Where the Girls Are, edited by DL King, Lambda
Award finalist

Lesbian Cowboys, edited by Sacchi Green, a
Lambda  Award winner

Girl Crazy, edited by Sacchi Green

Lesbian Lust, edited by Sacchi Green

discusses Brendan Wolf, by Brian Malloy (St. Martin's, $13.95 pb).

discuss Kicked Out: Stories of LGBTQYouth Homelessness, edited by  Sassafras Lowrey (Homofactus, $19.95  pb).  Here's the link to the description and to order: http://www.queerbooks.com/book/9780978597368

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Please come at least a couple of minutes early
(before the store closes at 7 pm), so no one will need to come to the door to
let you in. If you are late, there's a doorbell to the left of the front door. 

L. Scott Stoltz is the author of

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Obsessions, Digressions, and Shocking Confessions!
(Welcome to My Therapy), $16.95 pb.

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In this unforgettable book, Stoltz discusses many of the
issues that a 57-year-old gay man must deal with. Such items include:

*HIV
*Abandonment by a life-partner of over 10 years
*Major depression and anxiety
*An obsession with Cher
*Seduction by a male professor
*Molestation by an uncle”
*Being accused of trying to kill a best friend!
*Owning and losing a successful business
*Drug, alcohol, and sex addiction
*Suicide attempts
*Supportive, yet off-the-wall family
*Commitment to psych wards

Let me introduce myself! 
I am L. Scott Stoltz, born and raised in South Jersey.  I moved to Philadelphia in 1994 when I met
my partner.  He and I owned and operated
About the Beat Records right here on Pine Street for 8 years!  All my life I have considered myself a
“frustrated” writer, and finally, after years of stopping and starting, I have
completed my first book, titled, OBSESSIONS, DIGRESSIONS, AND SHOCKING
CONFESSIONS!  (Welcome to my Therapy),
published through PublishAmerica.com. 
It is a personal memoir, written “tongue-in-cheek”, in a conversational
tone between me and the reader (i.e. my Therapist!).

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CAConrad
and Frank Sherlock are the authors of The City Real and Imagined
(Factory School, $15 pb).

Details and samples at this link: http://cityrealandimagined.blogspot.com/ 
Wander through this psychogeographical poem. Experience peoples' histories and
magical traditions rooted in the first capital of the American possible--the
city of Philadelphia. Visit landmarks that remain standing, revisit citizens
that live on in memory, and participate in the future mappings of your city yet
to be realized--the city real and imagined.

Danbert Nobacon is the author of 3 Dead Princes,
illustrated by Alex Cox (Exterminating Angel Press, $15 pb). 

Princess Stormy goes on a quest to help her dad, killing
three princes by accident along the way. Iggy Pop says, "This is a
beautiful book. The illustrations are wonderful. It definitely rocks! I ought
to know."  Danbert Nobacon, singer, songwriter, comedian, and “freak
music legend”  (sepiachord, Nov 2009.), was a founding member of
the anarchist punk rock band Chumbawamba with the worldwide hit “Tubthumper”
(1997)

will discuss

Gore Vidal's novel, The City and the Pillar.

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For store pick up or delivery, order at this
link: http://www.queerbooks.com/book/9781400030378. 

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Please come at least a couple of minutes early (before the store
closes at 7 pm), so no one will need to come to the door to let you in. If you
are late, there's a doorbell to the left of the front door.

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Thomas James is the author of  Into the Stars (LuLu, $15.99 pb).

Thomas James spins a heartfelt tale about a man who has given up on love just as it comes trying to knock his door down.

Orlando
Lafayette had his heart shattered early on in life by the supposed love
of his life, Derek, who left him high and dry with their young
daughter, Arianna. And while he continues to try and piece his life back
together, the chance of a lifetime and a means of therapy appear as his
best friend pulls some strings to produce the play he wrote years
earlier. Father and daughter are soon whisked away to New York City
where he meets Angelo, the attractive father of his Arianna’s classmate.

 Through
book club meetings, chance encounters, and a few timid dates, Orlando
becomes more at ease Angelo and willing to trust with his heart once
again. As always, though, things are not what they seem, and secrets are
being hidden from Orlando as whispers of Derek haunt his new life.

discusses The Actor's Guide to Murder, by Rick Copp (Kensington, $14 pb).