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EVEN THE WORLD'S MOST FAMOUS PORN STAR HAD HIS BEGINNINGS

Watch Aiden Shaw roam the streets of NYC talking about his new book, Sordid Truths… MORE>

CALENDAR: ALIX DOBKIN BOOK TOUR

October 29: Thursday, New York: Barnes & Noble, 122 5th Ave, 7 pm.

November 3: Tuesday, New York: Gay & Lesbian Center, 208 West 13th Street, reception at 6:30 pm, program at 7 pm.

November 9: Monday, Boston: Berklee College of Music Bookstore, 1090 Boylston Street 2 pm.

Author Christopher Bram talking about his new nonfiction collection, Mapping the Territory.

Q. Why haven't you written a book-length memoir or autobiography?

A. Oh, I don't know. Maybe I'm just shy. Maybe my life is too quiet to justify a full autobiography. It's best visited in essays... I prefer making things up. Not only can I have experiences in fiction that I didn't have in life, but I can get closer to the truth in fiction.

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MEMOIR

FICTION

MEMOIR

MYSTERY

EROTICA

Women's Music Icon Alix Dobkin

First Openly Gay Comedian, Bob Smith

Mary
Cappello

Award-winning Writer Greg Herren

Cecilia
Tan

Bob Dylan’s “favorite female singer” and one of the groundbreaking icons in women’s music recalls the bohemian folk years of Greenwich Village, the radical left culture that shaped her life and music, and the feminism that changed it. MORE>

Nelson Kunker is a TV script supervisor whose life in Los Angeles has come to a halt because he’s unable to finish the novel he’s writing, doesn’t have a boyfriend, and at the pivotal age of thirty-four has reached the juncture where he has to decide whether he’s really talented or just gay.
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In her intensely personal and insightful memoir, Mary Cappello wonders aloud for us what breast cancer awareness really makes us aware of, and responds as if for the first time to the deceivingly simple command: “tell me what you’re feeling.” MORE>

Behind the beautiful facade of a Garden District mansion, a powerful political family's secrets end in murder. MORE>

Steamy new stories of eternal love, dark avenging angels, and the lust among female vampires. From the editor Susie Bright calls, "simply one of the most important writers, editors, and innovators in contemporary American erotic literature." MORE>