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- A Mary Reading: June 22, 2011
The Montauk Club is pleased to announce a very special fundraising reading curated by William Johnson, the editor and publisher of Mary Literary, a literary journal dedicated to publishing gay writing of artist merit. The reading will feature distinguished authors Nick Burd and Sarah Sarai and part of the ticket cost will be donated to [...]
- 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 [...]
- Strangeways, Here We Come…
Well it looks like everyone’s favorite witty, bon-mot hurling, ironic/iconic pop star has finished his autobiography. Morrissey‘s–three year in the making- memoir is finished. It’s apparently a huge book coming in at some 660 pages. Just what is going to be in this book? Vegan Recipes? Tales of hot hookups with groupies. Celibate fireside chats [...]
- The Stranger’s Child by Alan Hollinghurst
Great news all you gay anglophiles! Picador will be publishing, Booker award winning author, Alan Hollinghurst’s new novel The Stranger’s Child in July. All of us here at Mary love Hollinghurst’s writing, so we are eagerly awaiting the summer to get our–surely by then– sun pocked hands on this book. Picador’s Synopsis: In the [...]
- 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 [...]
- Gay characters in children’s books
An excerpt from straight, but aspiring homosexual, actor and writer James Franco’s new short story collection Palo Alto. Share this:
- Teach Me How To GIF-y: Grassroots Queer Aesthetics in New Media and a Progressive Literary Movement
“So how do you know him?” “I follow his GIFs online. They’re really good!” “What?” “GIFs are these silly low res animated images for online. You’d know what I mean if I showed you, you’ve seen them.” “So is this like some sort of flirtation? Is there such a thing as GIF flirtation?” “No! I [...]
- 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 [...]
- QT: Queer Text Readings Series at Dixon Place
A queer reading to celebrate the fall issue of Mary! Tuesday, November 9th Time: Doors at 7/reading at 7:30 Dixon Place 161A Chrystie Street(between Delancey and Rivington) New York, NY 10002 Tickets $6 (available at the door or online by clicking here.) Readings by Mike Albo and Frank J Miles Soul music provided by DJ [...]
- 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 [...]
