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Tuesday, December 16, 2025
Leave it to Cheever (sorry)
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Our first in-person meeting of 2026 (Jan. 7) will be devoted to John Cheever's controversial novel, Falconer . In anticipation of that d...
Tuesday, December 9, 2025
Notes on the final section of "Secret City"
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As always, I'm grateful to Mike Mazza for sharing his extensive, detailed notes on James Kirchick's Secret City: The Hidden History ...
Tuesday, December 2, 2025
Mike M.'s notes on "Our Evenings"
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As always, I'm grateful to Mike Mazza for sharing his extensive, detailed notes on Alan Hollinghurst's Our Evenings , which we'l...
Tuesday, November 25, 2025
Celebrating Andrea Gibson's poetry
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Back in July, I posted a couple of items here about Andrea Gibson , Colorado's poet laurate, who had recently died of ovarian cancer at...
Sunday, November 16, 2025
Mike Mazza's notes on "Slashed to Ribbons"
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Thanks once again to Mike Mazza for these notes on the first set of short stories in Felice Picano's Slashed to Ribbons: In Defense of L...
Friday, November 14, 2025
More LGBTQ poetry for your reading pleasure (Part 2)
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These poems were disseminated in the American Academy of Poetry's Poem-a-Day newsletter in September, October and November. Art by ...
Some LGBTQ poetry for your reading pleasure (Part 1)
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I hadn't realized how long it's been since my last compilation of LGBTQ-themed poems (not all by LGBTQ poets, I should note) from th...
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