Biography
LETTERS OF WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS
1945-1959
William S. Burroughs From Texas through Tangier, to Paris and the publication of Naked
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tells the
making of a writer. Beginning as surprisingly formal notes from the road, the letters gradually deepen in substance and style. This offers a fascinating new take on Burroughs's life and work and his profound literary transformation. Viking
Hardback $25.00
CRUNCHING GRAVEL
A WISCONSIN BOYHOOD THE THIRTIES Robert Peters
Robert Peters' recollec tion of his adolescence vividly evoke the Depression on a hardscrab ble farm near Eagle River, Wisconsin. His clear-eyed memoir reveals a poet's sensibility, even as witnessed by a boy of twelve."
Univ of Wisconsin Paperback $10.95
DANGEROUS GAMES
Robert Bentley Theque story of a convicted murderer on death row who changed his sand won her freedom This is the story of Leslie Douglas Ashley/ Lesli Elaine Perez, who rece ved an 11th hour reprieve on death row and had his conviction overturned. Then, with his mother's morley, had a sex change and went on to become and AIDS actist for ACT UP/ Houston This is her incredible story Birch Lane Press Har Back $19.95
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LIAISON Joyce Wadler The ripping real story of the diplomat spy and the Chinese opera star whose affair inspired M. Butterfly Bernard Bout-sicot met and fell in love with a mysterious opera singer named Shi Pai Over the next fighteen year the two lived out a passionate and
ous liaison that pro duced a son drew them into espionage, and eventually into French prison. All the
whi Bernard was unaware that Shi Pei was a man Find out how this cold have happened.
Bantam
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NOEL RILEY FIICH
ANAIS
THE EROTIC LIFE OF ANAIS NIN
Noel Riley Fitch Fitch reveals the truth about Nin and the twin childhood traumas of incest and abandonment that reverberated throughout Nin's adult life. Intimate details of her extraordinary career include her bigamous marriages and many love affairs with women and men, her life among the Parisian avant-garde in the 20, and the growth of her reputation as literary sexual icon.
Little Brown Hardback $24.95
INCEST
FROM A JOURNAL OF LOVE, THE UNEXPURGATED DIARY OF ANAIS NIN 1932-34 Anaïs Nin This original, uncensored diary is a life record that deals openly with physical relationships, and unsparingly with the full spectrum of psychological ramifications. Covers her relationships with Henry and June Miller, and with her analyst, Rene Allendy. Harvest
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COMING UNBUTTON D A MEMOIR with James Broughton This brisk and in pudent me noir is the confessional work of the pioneer independent filmmaker and poet whose adventures among the famous and the
famous extend from the New York circle of the 30s to the ant garde antics of Gallonia Galnomia of the bus the Haigh Ashbury days and peyond Mealso shares tra intimate memories of Nin Duncan, Cocteau, and oth-
ers.
City Lights
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HONOURABLE BEAST A POSTHUMOUS AUTOBIOGRAPHY John Dexter
Chock-full of intimate encounters and scathing gossip, this is the posthumous memoir diary of John Dexter, the Tony award winning director of numerous plays and operas. Working with the cream of British and American theater and the international opera scene, he spoke frankly of his equally-renowned collaborations. Provides an intimate and unique backstage look at theater and opera from London to New York.
Theatre Arts Books Hardback $25.00
Langston Hughes
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LONGSTON HUGHES
Langston Hughes First volume of his autobiography of his first thirty years. From his birth in Joplin, MO, his abandonment by his father, the constant moving with his mother, his years at Columbia, the Lincoln University, living in Paris, and his rise to one of the central figures of Harlem's Black Renaissance Hill and Wang Paperback $1295
I WONDER AS I WANDER
Langston Hughes This second volume of Hughes autobiography vividly recall the most dramatic and intimate moments of his life in the turbulent 1930s. It is a continually amusing, wise revelation of an American writer journeying around the often strange exciting world tellovés Hill and Wa Paperbark $14.95
MARGUERITE YOURCENAR INVENTING
A LIFE
Josyane Savigneau Here, in its intricate and often contradictory detail, is Yourcenar's story, one in which loss and learning intertwined almost from the first and in which love assumed an odd-
ly paradoxical place. An avid seductress of wo-
men, she spent nearly 40 years with one woman, but also fell in love with two men, one early in life, and one late. University of Chicago Hardback $25.00
BRUCE CHATWIN Nicholas Murray Murray traces the life of this private man and talented author, discussing the intellectual qualities of his books and critical responses to them. He explores in depth Chatwin's writing, his life, and the effect of his sexuality on both.
Poetry Wales Press Paperback $13.95
DIFFERENT PERSON
A MEMOIR James Merrill
The memoir's central thread is Merrill's 30 month sojourn in Europe during the 1950s. After selling his first book of poems and meeting the love of his life, Merrill soon feels constrained by his social circles and flees to Europe. Here we see his vivid encounters with friends, lovers, cities, art, opera, and a host of other activities. It is perhaps the most lucid and inward account we have of a homosexual life in the world of intellect and art. Knopf Hardback $25.00
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LONG-DISTANCE RUNNER
TONY RICHARDSON
FOREWORD BY $41ASUA RICHARDSON TRODUCTION OF JOAS DIDIOS THE LONG-DISTANCE
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A MEMOIR
Tony Richardson Completed before his recent death from AIDS, Richardson explores his passion for film and theater. Beginning with his meteoric rise as a young maverick for the Royal Shakespeare Theatre Company, he relives his full and remarkable career. Morrow
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DAPHNE DU MAURIER THE SECRET LIFE OF THE RENOWNED STORYTELLER
Margaret Forster Uncovers the contradictions of du Maurier's complex character. Drawing on never before published papers and private letters, Forster explores the secret drama of her life, her stifling relationship with her father, troubled marriage, her wartime love affair, the highly significant friendship with Ellen Doubleday, and her romantic attachment with actress Gertrude Law-
rence.
Doubleday Hardback $25.00
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THE GAY
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A PLACE AT THE TABLE THE GAY INDIVIDUAL IN AMERICAN SOCIETY
Bruce Bawer
A gay writer's powerful meditation on the nature of homosexuality and the need for mainstream gays to resist the confining stereotypes of both homophobes and the extreme gay subculture. Bawer strips away the misconceptions that underlie homophobia, critically scrutinizes the lockstep mentality of the gay subculture, and defines the complex moral predicament of the gay individual. Poseidon Press Hardback $21.00
Reinaldo Arenas
Before Night Falls
BEFORE NIGHT FALLS Reinaldo Arenas This memoir recounts a stunning odyssey-from Arena's poverty-stricken childhood in rural Cuba and his adolescence as a rebel fighting for Castro, through his suppression as a writer, imprisonment as a homosexual, his flight from Cuba, and his subsequent life and death in New York. This book breaks the silence that protects the privileged in a state where homosexuality is a political crime punishable by imprisonment. Viking
Hardback $25.00
HART CRANE AND ALLEN TATE JANUS-FACED MODERNISM Langdon Hammer Focusing on the vexed friendship between Crane and Tate, this book examines 20th century American poetry's progress toward institutional sanction and professional organization. Shows Crane in social isolation because of his homosexuality and how Tate turned on him because of his embattled heterosexual masculinity. Princeton Univ. Press Hardback $35.00
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