Brad Gooch met Howard Brookner at a gay club in 1978. Howard was working on his film project about William S. Burroughs and Brad was a post-grad student at Columbia and writer. The heady swirl of the hedonistic 70’s was everywhere and they were firmly part of it. Burroughs, Mapplethorpe, Haring. It was all sex and drugs and art with a capital A and the possibilities were seemingly endless. Then the spectre of death in the form of AIDs transformed the landscape forever. In between, […]
“…we all fall down….”
You may know Brené Brown from her amazing TED talks about shame and being vulnerable. Or maybe you came across her on Oprah once upon a time, or you read one of her other amazingly powerful books. Or maybe you’ve never heard of her, and it’s possible that you don’t spend as much time as I do trying to fit the pieces of yourself into something resembling a whole. Mazel tov. For me, however, Brene Brown’s work – as a researcher and author, especially […]
In which McGuire introduces a whole new faerie kingdom Toby can be nearly killed in
This is book 9 in the October Daye series. Standard disclaimers about spoilers if you’re not caught up. Book one, Rosemary and Rue, is the place to start if this series is entirely new to you. It’s also the September 2015 pick for the Vaginal Fantasy book club. Just as October “Toby” Daye, changeling knight and hero of multiple faerie kingdoms seems to be catching a break, having things go her way for a change, there are unexpected developments in the court of queen Arden […]
RIP Lilly Bottoms
Stray Bullets 2: Somewhere Out West details pretty much what happened next after Orson, Beth and Nina took off with all that cash and coke. The majority of the book is set in Seaside, a raggedy-ass town out in the desert with a three mile long boardwalk, ready for when an earthquake drops California off into the ocean. I’m not making that up. The other main attraction is Lilly Bottoms, the five-legged cow, and every year there is a fair where she is the guest […]