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P.G. Wodehouse

My image of heaven is a place where there is an infinite number of P.G. Wodehouse books to read.

A Dance to the Music of Time

The cool detachment of Anthony Powell's Nick Jenkins, the Narrator.

Ragan Fox

Openly queer spoken word poet.

Fellatio is promoted to a minor art, like wine tasting

Edmund White's My Lives : An Autobiography reviewed.

Porn or erotica?

Jack Fritscher explains the distinction.

Alan Hollinghurst interviewed

Booker prize winning literary gay novelist gives interview.

Bad Boys in the Band

Adult gay romance based on Boys in the Bad

That Man From C.A.M.P. reviewed

The hero of these remarkable books is the blonde effete Jackie Holmes.

Victor Banis 2004

List of Victor Banis books that are being reissued or forthcoming.

Forgotten gay writers, musicians, artists?

Rediscovering, recovering gay novelists, poets, musicians, artists, painters, photographers who've been forgotten by later generationf of queer men.

Trust Fund Boys

Robert Byrne's new gay comic novel Trust Fund Boys, have you bought it yet?

Free gay short fiction

Gay short fiction by gay men and women, tranvesvestites and bisexuals

The kindness of gay strangers

Guy made a few suggestions of gay authors that I might enjoy

Heinlein vs. Taken

Nowadays science fiction appeals to the gullible, the stupid, the morons.

Depressing gay fiction

Queer novels featuring closet cases, Boys in the Band,The City and the Pillar

Witty, literate gay novelists?

Funny gay writers like Alan Hollinghurst and Joe Keenan or maybe even Robert Rob Rodi.

A couple of books on the English Reformation

G. R. Elton: Reform & Reformation: England, 1509-1558 and A.G. Dickens: The English Reformation

Mediocre book on Elizabeth I

Pedestrian history of the reign of Elizabeth I.

The Invention of Ancient Israel

The Invention of Ancient Israel: the Silencing of Palestinian History by Keith D. Whitelam

Shakespeare: scholars & crackpots

Shakespeare's Lives by Schoenbaum, a look at honest if misguided scholarship, foolish Baconians and Oxfordians, and forgers.

Pomo-babble

The horror of academic jargon.

Green carnation a secret queer symbol?

The 10 most popular misconceptions about Oscar Wilde

Pictures from an Institution

Randall Jarrell's campus comedy Pictures from an Institution.

Michael Frayn is incentive?

Michael Frayn, called cognitive and incentive on Amazon.

Christopher Hitchens on Evelyn Waugh

Christopher Hitchens on Evelyn Waugh's comedy and tragedy.

Nietzsche: from Nazi to postmodern hero

Nietzsche, Nietzschean will to power, superman, ubermensche, joy, generosity.

Kingsley Amis: The King's English

Kingsley Amis book The King's English prescriptive wit.

God's Funeral

A.N. Wilson's God's Funeral and 19th Century Victorian atheism.

The Temple of the Mind

The Temple of the Mind: Education and Literary Taste in Seventeenth-Century England by John R. Mulder.

How to buy used books online

Rereading Evelyn Waugh

Ada Leverson, Malcolm Bradbury, Tom Sharpe

Was about Robert Heinlein but somehow wound up with anti-Semitism

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