reviews_and_ramblings | Event: Spooky Bear Weekend

Date: Saturday, Oct. 29th
Time: 3:00
Place: Now Voyager Bookstore & Gallery
357 Commercial Street, Provincetown, MA 02657

Saturday, Oct. 29th, 3:00, William Holden, R. Jackson, and Paul Russell will be visiting Now Voyager Bookstore

A Twist of Grimm: Erotic Fairy Tales for Gay Men by William Holden
Paperback: 156 pages
Publisher: Lethe Press (October 9, 2010)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1590213432
ISBN-13: 978-1590213438
Amazon: A Twist of Grimm: Erotic Fairy Tales for Gay Men

The stories that delighted us as boys, now told with a sensual edge for us as men! The Glass Coffin. The Elves. Fitcher's Bird. Old fairy tales that might provoke a wistful grin at their magical storytelling. Author William Holden has breathed new life into such stories in A Twist of Grimm--his retellings strike true, like Eros's arrow: below the belt. Herein are such tales as Wicked Little Tongues -- a shoemaker discovers new lust brought on by a pair of diminutive trolls -- and The Flaccid C*ck that Sang -- sibling rivalry, a magic sword, and, of course, a lifeless prick that needs rescuing. Randy princes, well-hung knights, and fairies in every sense of the word await you.

Bearotica: Hot & Hairy Fiction edited by R. Jackson
Paperback: 188 pages
Publisher: Bear Bones Books (May 25, 2010)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1590211081
ISBN-13: 978-1590211083
Amazon: Bearotica: Hot & Hairy Fiction

This first volume in the Hot and Hairy series of outstanding erotic short fiction draws readers deep into the thickest forest of masculine desire to reveal at a hidden bonfire a long-hidden clan of gay, bi, and queer men from the Bear cult. In Bearotica, you ll meet: a mountain man who guides a young fellow through his initiation into male love as they cross over the American frontier; a couple of wayward bikers riding together down a dusty, lusty road; four massive musclebears using junkyard metal and their other tools to improvise weightlifting routines; two warriors, one a bear and one wolf, battle in an 8th-Century Norwegian lodge for sexual dominance; and many more unforgettable characters. Edited by R. Jackson, Bearotica presents seventeen strong, arousing, compelling stories of homomasculine love by famed and favorite contributors such as Dale Chase, Daniel M. Jaffe, Jay Neal, R.E. Neu, Jay Starre, Karl von Uhl, and Thom Wolf, as well as new voices. If you go out to the woods today, beware: reading these sometimes humorous, often insightful, but always sensual tales of macho men expressing their desires may grow fur on the palms of your paws or at least, show you exactly what bears really do in the woods.

The Unreal Life of Sergey Nabokov: A Novel by Paul Russell
Paperback: 320 pages
Publisher: Cleis Press; 1 edition (November 8, 2011)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1573447196
ISBN-13: 978-1573447195
Amazon: The Unreal Life of Sergey Nabokov: A Novel

In his novel based on the extraordinary life of the gay brother of Vladimir Nabokov, Paul Russell re-creates the rich and changing world in which Sergey, his family and friends lived; from wealth and position in pre-revolutionary Russia, to the halls of Cambridge University, and the Parisian salon of Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas. But it is the honesty and vulnerability of Sergey, our young gay narrator, that hook the reader: his stuttering childhood in the shadow of his brilliant brother, his opium-fueled evenings with his sometime lover Cocteau, his troubled love life on the margins of the Ballets Russes and its legendary cast, and his isolation in war torn Berlin where he will ultimately be arrested, sent to a camp and die in 1945. A meticulously researched novel, in which you will meet an extraordinary cast of characters including Picasso, Diaghilev, Stravinsky, Magnus Hirschfield ("Tante Magnesia"), Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas, Cocteau, and of course the master himself, Vladimir Nabokov, this is ultimately the story of a beautiful and vulnerable homosexual boy growing into an enlightened and courageous man.