Stephen King’s On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

Written by Nan Goldberg on October 24, 2000. Posted in Books, Posts

The thing about Stephen King is that, like a younger brother (which he is), he can irritate the hell out of you, but he also manages to be endearing. His propensity for wise-assisms and obscenities can drive you crazy. His novels have gotten longer without getting better. His baby boomer characters keep calling each other
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A New Life of Aleister Crowley

Written by Alan Cabal on October 20, 2000. Posted in Books, Posts

Do What Thou Wilt by Lawrence Sutin (St. Martin’s Press 483 pages, $27.95) Aleister Crowley comes to mind, here. Crowley failed at the task, mainly owing to hubris and a general inability to focus his agenda, but he lived large for quite a while and cut one hell of a swath. Numerous biographers and essayists
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The Great, Death-Obsessed Thomas Lovell Beddoes

Written by NY Press on October 14, 2000. Posted in Books, Posts

Young soul, put off your flesh and come With me into the quiet tomb, Our bed is lovely, dark, and sweet; The Earth will swing us as she goes, Beneath our coverlid of snows And the warm leaden sheet. Dear and dear is their poisoned note, The little snakes of silver throat In mossy
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A post-mortem on Gothic: Four Hundred Years of Excess, Horror, Evil and Ruin

Written by Colin Raff on October 3, 2000. Posted in Books, Posts

Gothic by Richard Davenport-Hines (North Point Press, 438 pages, $15) You might hope that a study of grotesque tropes and morbidity in esthetics would plot the degeneracy of these forms, from their original functions to their lazy appropriation by unlettered twits. You’d want an acute examination of craft and form instead of the easy, predictable
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Author Lauren Sanders Discusses Porn, Euthanasia, Masturbation, Etc.

Written by J.T. Leroy on September 8, 2000. Posted in Books, Posts

Anything labeled queer fiction used to frighten me. Lauren Sanders’ Kamikaze Lust, put out by Akashic Books last spring (287 pages, $14.95), falls under that gay heading, but after the first page my fear was vanquished. It could be the Bjork of crossover books. It’s funny, daring, freaky and way cool. And yeah, there’s hot
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Two from Ed Sanders

Written by Bob Riedel on August 27, 2000. Posted in Books, Posts

America: A History In Verse, Volume I 1900-1939 by Edward Sanders (Black Sparrow Press, 385 pages, $16 ) The Poetry And Life of Allen Ginsberg by Edward Sanders (Overlook, 252 pages, $27.95) During a recent change of apartments I found myself engaged in the universal moving-day pastime of self-castigation over the amount of stuff I’d
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Norman Podhoretz’s My Love Affair with America

Written by Douglas Davis on August 8, 2000. Posted in Books, Posts

My Love Affair with America by Norman Podhoretz (The Free Press, 248 pages, $25) Not that long ago my teenage daughter inadvertently flagged this hot issue. Five times she has organized her classmates to leave school and demonstrate against police brutality at One Police Plaza. "Dad," she said one day, "why don’t I ever see
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Selling Out the Gay and Lesbian Movement

Written by Bob Riedel on July 27, 2000. Posted in Books, Posts

One summer day in the late 1970s, shortly after my bride-to-be and I had moved into a Christopher St. apartment, we were out walking hand-in-hand in the neighborhood when a group of muscle-shirted men started yelling at us–"Straights go home!" and "Only queer here!" as I remember. I mentioned this to our new neighbor, a
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Another Psycho’s Take on Love

Written by None - Do not Delete on June 25, 2000. Posted in Books, Posts

Interview by Lisa LeeKing & Tanya Richardson Men Are Like Fish In the following interview with Steve Nakamoto, author of Men Are Like Fish (Java Books, 192 pages, $14.95), we offer up one more psycho’s take on love. We spoke to Myreah Moore about her book Date Like a Man a few months back in
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Rock’s Other Gonzo Scribes: Anthologies from Richard Meltzer and Nick Tosches

Written by Joe S. Harrington on June 20, 2000. Posted in Books, Posts

The Nick Tosches Reader by Nick Tosches (Da Capo, 593 pages, $18.95) Coming on the heels of Let It Blurt, the recent bio of Lester Bangs by Jim DeRogatis, these two anthologies represent the other two most famous "gonzo" scribes from the golden days of the rock press. A ribald spirit possessed all three of
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