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Wendy Moffat, Ph.D., is the author of A Great
Unrecorded History: A New Life of E. M. Forster (Farrar, Straus &
Giroux, $32.50 hb).

With the posthumous publication of his long-suppressed
novel Maurice in 1970, E. M. Forster came out as a homosexual-- though
that revelation made barely a ripple in his literary reputation. As Wendy
Moffat persuasively argues in A Great Unrecorded History, Forster's
homosexuality was the central fact of his life. Between Wilde's imprisonment
and the Stonewall riots, Forster led a long, strange, and imaginative life as a
gay man. He preserved a vast archive of his private life--a history of gay
experience he believed would find its audience in a "happier” time.
A Great Unrecorded History is a biography of the heart. Moffat's decade
of detective work--including first-time interviews with Forster's friends--has
resulted in the first book to integrate Forster's public and private lives.
Seeing his life through the lens of his sexuality offers us a radically new
view--revealing his astuteness as a social critic, his political bravery, and
his prophetic vision of gay intimacy.  A
Great Unrecorded History invites us to see Forster-- and modern gay
history--from a completely new angle.

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. 

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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.

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