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Favorite line: "...lust wreaking its usual havoc on grammar." [p.209 of the Little Brown hardback]
Books I've read in the past few months ...

My Lucky Star by Joe Keenan, the final book (and my favorite) of the Philip Cavanaugh and Gilbert Selwyn trilogy.

#booksky #books #gay #novel #lgbtq #reading #humor #classic #GayClassic #JoeKeenan @joekeenan.bsky.social
Richard Bach:
"A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit."

#booksky #books #novel #writing #reading #classic #RichardBach
W. Somerset Maugham:
"There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are."

#booksky #books #WritingCommunity #writing #reading #novel #WSomersetMaugham
Books I've read in the past few months ... the moving and beautifully written novel Grief by Andrew Holleran

#booksky #books #gay #novel #lgbtq #writing #reading #classic #GayClassic #AndrewHolleran
Joy Division "Atmosphere"

Walk in silence
Don't walk away, in silence
See the danger
Always danger

Endless talking
Life rebuilding
Don't walk away

#music #poetry #Atmosphere #JoyDivision
#IanCurtis #BernardSumner #StephenMorris #PeterHook
Pink Floyd "Wish You Were Here"

How I wish, how I wish you were here
We're just two lost souls swimming in a fish bowl
year after year
Running over the same old ground
What have you found?
The same old fears
Wish you were here

#music #poetry #PinkFloyd #WishYouWereHere
Wish You Were Here is my favorite Pink Floyd album. I can listen to it nonstop.
Charles Bukowski:
"I knew I was strong, and maybe like they said, 'crazy.' But I had this feeling inside of me that something real was there."
(Ham On Rye)

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Star Trek was everything to me growing up. Mr. Spock was my hero. 🖖
On this day in 1966, Star Trek first beamed into living rooms across America. None of us could have imagined then the journey it would set us on. And not just the cast and crew, but the millions of fans who would find hope, inspiration, and community in its vision of the future.
Franz Kafka:
"I write differently from what I speak, I speak differently from what I think, I think differently from the way I ought to think, and so it all proceeds into deepest darkness."

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Christopher Coe (1953.11.27–1994.09.06) wrote two novels: I Look Divine (1987), a brilliant tale about the fragility of beauty and vanity, and Such Times (1993), a beautiful, heart-breaking semi-autobiographical story about a love affair cut short by the AIDS virus.

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Oscar Wilde:
"Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter."
[The Picture of Dorian Gray]

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James Baldwin:
"One writes out of one thing only—one’s own experience. Everything depends on how relentlessly one forces from this experience the last drop, sweet or bitter, it can possibly give."

(Notes of a Native Son 1955)

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Such memories! I haven't been there--or back in Colorado--in more than 30 years. ❤️ 📚
Truman Capote:
"You can't blame a writer for what the characters say."

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Don't forget book 3, My Lucky Star
Books I've read in the past few months ...
Putting on the Ritz by Joe Keenan, entertaining second novel about gay friends Philip Cavanaugh and Gilbert Selwyn.

#booksky #books #gay #novel #lgbtq #writing #reading #humor #classic #GayClassic #JoeKeenan @joekeenan.bsky.social
Albert Camus:
"The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself."

#booksky #books #novel #WritingCommunity #writing #reading #classic #AlbertCamus
Edna St. Vincent Millay:
"A person who publishes a book appears willfully in public eye with his pants down. If it is a good book nothing can hurt him. If it is a bad book nothing can help him."

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Dorothy Parker:
"If you have any young friends who aspire to become writers, the second greatest favor you can do them is to present them with copies of The Elements of Style. The first greatest, of course, is to shoot them now, while they’re happy."

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Books I've read in the past few months ... one of my favorites and a very entertaining movie, as well
Boy Culture by Matthew Rettenmund @boyculture.bsky.social

#booksky #books #gay #novel #lgbtq #reading #classic #GayClassic #MatthewRettenmund