Category Archives: GLBT short stories
“Night Duty and Other Stories” by Nicholas Mann— Bear Dreams
Amos ♦ June 15, 2013 ♦ Leave Your Comment
Mann, Nicholas. “Night Duty and Other Stories”, Bear Bones Books, 2013. Bear Dreams Amos Lassen I had never read or seen anything by Nicholas Mann before so this book came as a total surprise to me—and quite a pleasant surprise at that. It is not just erotic storytelling that we get here— we also see …
“Leather Ever After: An Anthology of Kinky Fairy Tales” edited by Sassafras Lowrey— Rethinking the Stories
Amos ♦ June 12, 2013 ♦ Leave Your Comment
Lowrey, Sassafras (editor). “Leather Ever After: An Anthology of Kinky Fairy Tales”, Ravenous Romance 2013. Rethinking the Stories Amos Lassen All of us grew up listening to fairy tales but I guarantee you that they were never like the 18 stories in this volume. For some reason I just cannot imagine the rabbi’s wife, my …
25th Annual Lambda Literary Award Winners
Amos ♦ June 4, 2013 ♦ Leave Your Comment
25th Annual Lambda Literary Award Winners (those titles with an asterisk are reviewed here at reviewsbyamoslassen.com) Bisexual (2 winners; 1 fiction, 1 nonfiction) *In One Person, John Irving, Simon & Schuster *My Awesome Place: The Autobiography of Cheryl B, Cheryl Burke, Topside Signature Gay General Fiction *Everything Begins and Ends at the Kentucky Club, …
“Wild Girls, Wild Nights: True Lesbian Sex Stories” edited by Sacchi Green— The Truth
Amos ♦ June 3, 2013 ♦ Leave Your Comment
Green, Sacchi (editor). “Wild Girls, Wild Nights: True Lesbian Sex Stories”, Cleis Press, 2013. The Truth Amos Lassen Sacchi Green brings us twenty stories of wild women having wild sex. This anthology sets out to destroy that myth of the lesbian who sets up home with the woman she had she had sex with the …
“Cruising for Bad Boys” edited by Mickey Erlach— Getting in On in the Open
Amos ♦ May 29, 2013 ♦ 3 Comments
Erlach, Mickey (editor). “Cruising for Bad Boys”, Starbooks, 2009. Getting in On in the Open Amos Lassen I understand that this is the third erotic anthology that Mickey Erlach has edited and that it is a bit different in that it takes us outdoors for good, hot sexual fun.The anthology contains selections from both established …
“Damaged Angels” by Larry Benjamin— The Others
Amos ♦ May 22, 2013 ♦ Leave Your Comment
Benjamin, Larry. “Damaged Angels”, Beaten Track Publishing, 2013. The Others Amos Lassen Thirteen short stories make up Larry Benjamin’s “Damaged Angels” and they all deal with some aspect of the “other”—“the invisible, the damaged: the drug addicts and hustlers, the mentally ill, the confused, and the men who fall in love with them”. For these …
“Fire Year” by Jason K. Friedman— Coming Soon
Amos ♦ May 13, 2013 ♦ Leave Your Comment
Friedman, Jason K. “Fire Year”, Sarabande Books, 2013. Coming Soon Amos Lassen I have just received word that Sarabande Publishing will be issuing the winner of the Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction, Jason K. Friedman’s, “Fire Year”. “Fire Year” is a collection of seven unconventional stories. One is about a gay man going to …
“Sex and Love” by I.J. Miller— Erotic and Literary
Amos ♦ May 11, 2013 ♦ 2 Comments
Miller, I.J. “Sex and Love”, Fanny Press, 2011. Erotic and Literary Amos Lassen For those of you who have never been able to decide if there is a difference between sex and love, here is one way of looking at it. I.J. Miller shows us very clearly that most of us want both but they …
“Pay for Play” edited by R. Talent— Sex and the Skin Trade
Amos ♦ May 7, 2013 ♦ 1 Comment
Talent, R. (editor). “Pay For Play”, Bold Strokes Books, 2012. Sex and the Skin Trade Amos Lassen There are still those who like to pay for sex as is seen in this new anthology edited by R. Talent. Containing twenty stories by known and new writers, the book gives us a new look at the …
Publishing Triangle— Winners Announced for 2012′s Best Lesbian and Gay Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, and Debut Fiction
Amos ♦ May 3, 2013 ♦ 2 Comments
sign in The Publishing Triangle proudly announces the winners for its 25th annual Triangle Awards, honoring the best lesbian and gay fiction, nonfiction, and poetry published in 2012. The winners were announced at a ceremony at the New School on April 25, 2013. The Audre Lorde Award for Lesbian Poetry Winner: Song and Spectacle, by …
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