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- New Mary! The Spring/Summer 2011 Issue is Here!
The new issue of Mary is finally here! Mary loves you! Contributors: Tom Cardamone Jason Cawood Aaron Tilford Khary Simon Darnell Moore Jack Ferver Stephen Mills Christopher Hennessy Sarah Sarai David Massengill Michael Montlack Jonathan Mack Isauro Cairo Jonathan Gardenhire Justin Winslow Steve Fullwood Shane Allison Interviews with: Steve Harper Michael Rumaker To order click [...]
- Yolo Akili: The Mary Interview
(photo by Louisa McCullough) Interview by William Johnson New York City based poet, author, and performance artist, Yolo Akili’s YouTube clip “Are We The Kind of Boys We Want?” has been stirring up quite a bit of a buzz. In over a week the clip has amassed over 2,000 views. The short clip is [...]
- Tomas Mournian: The Mary Interview
by Frank J Miles Los Angeleno Tomas Mournian calls his first young-adult novel, hidden, “a dystopia at the end of the rainbow.” This Bildungsroman is horror, thriller, and romance – including a soaring story of young gay love. hidden centers on gay suburban teenager Ahmed, who is sent to Serenity Ridge, a behavior-modification facility, by [...]
- Andrew Holleran: The Mary Interview
By William Johnson Art by Khary Simon Through out his career Andrew Holleran has provided a series of beautiful, and finely tuned, literary portraits of a particular type of modern gay man: characters whose intelligence and self awareness is not always enough to properly guide them through the often precarious aspects of the modern gay [...]
- Lambda Literary Foundation: The Chuck Forester Challenge Grant
(Tony Valenzuela) Author, activist and book lover, Chuck Forester, has offered a major challenge grant to the Lambda Literary Foundation—an organization dedicated to nurturing and preserving LGBT literature. All Donations received by the Lambda Literary Foundation, through November 19th, of $25 or more will be matched dollar-for-dollar for up to $10,000. Tony Valenzuela, Lambda’s executive [...]
- Larry Kramer: The Mary Interview
By Curt Weber Where does one begin with the man who was at the forefront of the fight to control and diminish one of the greatest contemporary health catastrophes this country, and the world, has seen–a disease infecting over 65 million people, 25 million of whom have died? Larry Kramer’s career moved from the movie [...]
- William Burroughs vs Led Zeppelin
What would happen if William Burroughs and Led Zeppelin’s Jimmy Page sat down for a cup of tea? Would the Devil pop out of the teapot? Would the crumpets rise up and start singing the “Misty Mountain Hop“? The good folks at Arthur Magazine have unearthed a 1975 Crawdaddy article in which Burroughs attends a [...]
- Jennifer Egan: The Mary Interview
By: William Johnson Photo: Heather Gregg Recently we asked Mary readers to name their top literary divas – commanding female writers whose temple we gladly worship. It was not shocking that Jennifer Egan’s name came up over and over again. Jennifer Egan is an awe-inspiring voice because she effortlessly manages to be so many things [...]
- Buy Mary
Did you know that you can buy the latest issue of Mary at the following establishments? St. Marks Bookstore 31 3rd Avenue New York, NY 10003-5536 (212) 260.7853 http://www.stmarksbookshop.com/periodicals McNally Jackson Bookstore 52 Prince St. (b/t Lafayette & Mulberry) New York, NY 10012 212.274.1160 http://mcnallyjackson.com/ Calamus Bookstore 92 South Street Boston, MA 02111-2801 (617) 338.1931 [...]
- House Music
A history of urban gay culture can be mapped by simply taking note of what was being played at the dance clubs at any given moment. Below is a link to a website that offers a vivid, insightful, evocative and personal accounting of the house music scene, and the gay culture that both inspired it [...]
