Winter 1993

Nominate your Favorite Books

Lami

for the Annual Literary ards

Have A Gay Holiday!

What's go Bad About Falling In Love?

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Washington, DC.; Lambda Book Report begins accepting nominations for the Sixth Annual Lambda Literary Awards on December 1, 1993. The Lammys, recognizing excellence in gay and lesbian writing and publishing, will be presented during a gala banquet in Los An-geles, California, on Friday, May 27, 1994, during the American Booksellers Association Convention.

Designed to recognize excel lence in gay and lesbian book publishing, the Lammys have witnessed an unprecedented and still-expanding boom, with previous Lammy winning authors such as Dorothy Allison and Paul Monette gaining national recognition. This year, the Pulitzer Prize in drama was won by a gay AIDS play, Angels in America. Following the March on Washington for Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual Rights this spring, a host of gay and lesbian authors received book advances in the six figures, and many major publishing houses-among them Simon and Schuster, Bantam, Knopf, and HarperCollins-have joined pioneers St. Mar-tin's Press and Dutton in publishing gay and lesbian fiction and non-fiction. At the same time, gay and lesbian small presses are thriving, with almost a dozen lesbian/feminist presses represented in last year's list of finalists. And 1994 will see a major young-

adult publisher beginning a series of gay and lesbian biographies and books covering issues aimed at teens.

Deacon Maccubbin, publisher of The Lambda Book Report, which sponsors the Awards, said "we are delighted to once again honor the many outstanding achievements of the gay and lesbian literary community. At a time when censors around the country are trying to remove lesbian and gay

writing-children's books, novels, even community newspapers-from the shelves of libraries, it is important that the entire industry continues to affirm the depth and significance of our authors."

The public is invited to nominate their favorite gay and lesbian books of 1993 in 16 categories: Lesbian Fiction, Gay Men's Fiction, Lesbian Studies, Gay Men's Studies, Lesbian & Gay Anthologies, Lesbian Biography / Auto-

See "Book Report" on page 2

WINTER

SIGNINGS AT-A-GLANCE:

LAMBDA RISING/DC

11/4: Stephen Leinen,

11/8: Joan Slonczewski,

Daughter of Elysium

11/10: Edmund White,

Gay Cops

Genet: A Blography

11/15: Matthew Stadler,

11/17: Andrea Weiss,

The Dissolution of Nicholas Dee

Vampires and Violets: Lesbians in Film

11/18: Robert Goss,

Jesus Acted Up

New Titles Stoke a HOT Winter Season at Lambda Rising

The winter publishing season is in full swing now, as publishers hurry to get their new titles to the marketplace for that all-important holiday shopping season. The pages of Lambda Rising News are again filled with these new titles, plus customer favorites from our stores. On page 3 of our catalog, we've listed some of our best books that make excellent gifts. Ranging from art gifts. Ranging from art books to travelogues to pictorial biography, we're sure there's something on this page to fit almost any giftgiving need.

New in paperback on page 6 is Gloria Naylor's Bailey's Cafe, and a sparkling new novel by Jay Rayn, Butch. Combine this with Leslie Feinberg's Stone Butch Blues for a great combination that will keep you warm on those cold winter nights!

This season, a new edition of Vito Russo's landmark

book The Celluloid Closet leads our section devoted up to gay cinema on page 7. Larry Kramer's play The Destiny of Me (page 8) is now in stock, along with an interesting art book created to support the fight against AIDS: Drawing the Line Against AIDS. On that page, we are also featuring, in our young readers' section, both the English and Spanish language versions of AIDS: Trading Fears for Facts from Consumer Reports Books.

This issue also marks the first inclusion of electronic books in Lambda Rising News with the recent release of Conduct Unbecoming in electronic format for Macintosh computers (page 7.) Also available in electronic format on page 13 is the Queers in History database. This interesting program (available for either Mac-

See "Winter Books" on page 2

Winter 1993

Edmund White visits Lambda Rising /DC Wednesday, November 10

Don't Get Caught In The Holiday Rush!

The winter season is the time when schedules get busy, parties pile up one after another, and we spend too much time fighting mobs in shopping malls, trying to find just the right gift for our friends and loved ones. We're here to make your life a bit easier by putting the resources of the Lambda Rising bookstores at your disposal. This catalog features the latest new releases in the g gay and les-

bian publishing industry, as well as a carefullyselected assortment of gift items, music and videos. We hope that within the pages of our catalog, you'll find something for almost everyone on your holiday shopping list. But remember to pick out something for yourself, as well!

As the number of books targeted at young readers increases, our customers keep asking for still more children's titles, both for

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gifts for the youth in their lives as well as donations to local schools and libraries. If there's a lesbian and gay-themed children's book you'd like that isn't listed in this catalog, please call our toll-free number. We stock virtually every gay and lesbian book in print, and we will be happy to check our inventory to see if we stock the titles need. you

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