Playground Libri

This is a news that could be interesting for a lot of authors in my FriendsList I believe.

In Italy is born a new publisher leased to Gay Literature. The name is "Playground Libri" and the website is:

http://www.playgroundlibri.it/

As you can see the site is only in Italian but I can try to give you some more info: in this moment the publisher has three lines

1) Main Series:
Hotel de Dream (same title) by Edmund White
Ce qui reste (Quel che resta) by Rachid O.
Between Mom and Jo (Tra mamma e Jo) by Julie Anne Peters
A visitation of spirits (Una visita degli spiriti) by Randall Kenan
Wild Dogs (Cani selvaggi) by Helen Humphreys
Unholy Ghosts (Il sognatore di fantasmi) by Richard Zimler
Mother of Sorrows (La madre di tutti i dolori) by Richard McCann
My lives (same title) by Edmund White
Plusieurs vies (Tante vite) by Rachid O.
Mysterious Skin (same title) by Scott Heim
La Douceur (La dolcezza) by Christophe Honorè
Bitter Eden (Paradiso amaro) by Tatamkhulu Afrika
L'Enfant ebloui (Il bambino incantato) by Rachid O.
La contessa sanguinaria by Alejandra Pizarnik
The Black Man (Il negro) by Adolfo Caminha
Ragazzo di zucchero by Ken Harvey
E' dolcissimo non appartenerti più by Sando Campani
Chocolat chaud (Cioccolata calda) by Rachid O.
All ears (Tutt'orecchi) by Dennis Cooper
Un chilogrammo di esplosivo e un vagono di cocaina by Vadim Kalinin
Morrissey (same title) by Pat Reid
Fou de Vincent (Pazzo di Vincent) by Herve Guibert
Bessie Smith (same title) by Jackie Kay

2) Series Mio Nonno Renzo (My grandfather Renzo):
Tu Cher dalle stelle by Matteo B. Bianchi
Il Principe volante by Barbara Alberti

3) Series High School:
A tale of two summers (Un'estate per due) by Brian Sloan
The Order of the Poison Oak (L'ordine della quercia velenosa) by Brent Hartinger
The God Box (Carlos e Sal) by Alex Sanchez
49 goal spettacolari by Davide Martini
Totally Joe (Joe e basta) by James Howe
Rainbow Road (same title) by Alex Sanchez
Geography Club (same title) by Brent Hartinger
Rainbow High (same title) by Alex Sanchez
Rainbow Boys (same title) by Alex Sanchez

Contacts:
info@playgroundlibri.it Info and Newsletter
ufficiostampa.playground@gmail Press

Address:
Playground Libri
Via Napoleone III, 86, 00185 Roma
Italy

Phone/Fax: 06.45421639

Bys Vyken by Syd McGinley

The story is setting in Cornwall of 1808. Jack is a miner and he lives a miserable life since his lover Clem, drowned inside the mine. Trying to rescue his lover, Jack cried out to the man his love and now all the town knows that Jack is a sodomite, and he survives waiting the day when someone will be tired of him and will end his existence.

Then one day a ship wrecks near the shore and while all the men tries to steal as much as possible, Jack instead saves a man, Nehemiah; Jack knows that, if the other men see the injured stranger, they will kill him, and saving him Jack has a bit of relief for not having saved Clem. Jack thinks the man an English sailor, and instead Nehemiah is an American citizen, forced to join up the English army when he arrived with a merchant ship months before.

In the loneliness of Jack's cottage, Nehemiah and Jack discover that they have a lot in common and Nehemiah convinces Jack to find the freedom with him outside the small town where he lives. But their life is not simple, a stranger and a sodomite alone against the world.

The story is pretty short, less than 35 pages, but it's very good. Again the author tries to involve the reader using Cornish words in the middle of the sentences, and also when she uses plain English, the grammar construction is very particular. There is a lot of reference to specific customs of the period and to the political relationship between America and England, but also on the way English government treated simple peasant like Jack. All in all, it seems that for a so short story, the author made a very good work.

http://www.torquerebooks.com/zencart/index.php?main_page=product_info&manufacturers_id=69&products_id=1434

Waiting Reading List:

http://www.librarything.com/catalog_bottom.php?tag=waiting reading list&view=elisa.rolle

Bys Vyken by Syd McGinley

The story is setting in Cornwall of 1808. Jack is a miner and he lives a miserable life since his lover Clem, drowned inside the mine. Trying to rescue his lover, Jack cried out to the man his love and now all the town knows that Jack is a sodomite, and he survives waiting the day when someone will be tired of him and will end his existence.

Then one day a ship wrecks near the shore and while all the men tries to steal as much as possible, Jack instead saves a man, Nehemiah; Jack knows that, if the other men see the injured stranger, they will kill him, and saving him Jack has a bit of relief for not having saved Clem. Jack thinks the man an English sailor, and instead Nehemiah is an American citizen, forced to join up the English army when he arrived with a merchant ship months before.

In the loneliness of Jack's cottage, Nehemiah and Jack discover that they have a lot in common and Nehemiah convinces Jack to find the freedom with him outside the small town where he lives. But their life is not simple, a stranger and a sodomite alone against the world.

The story is pretty short, less than 35 pages, but it's very good. Again the author tries to involve the reader using Cornish words in the middle of the sentences, and also when she uses plain English, the grammar construction is very particular. There is a lot of reference to specific customs of the period and to the political relationship between America and England, but also on the way English government treated simple peasant like Jack. All in all, it seems that for a so short story, the author made a very good work.

http://www.torquerebooks.com/zencart/index.php?main_page=product_info&manufacturers_id=69&products_id=1434

Waiting Reading List:

http://www.librarything.com/catalog_bottom.php?tag=waiting reading list&view=elisa.rolle

Katrina Strauss & Blue Ruin 3

Thanks to Katrina Strauss for sending me the beautiful postcard of Blue Ruin 3's cover by wonderful artist P.L. Nunn. I also want to write this to let you know what happened. Yesterday as usual I was come back to home for work more or less at dinner time. Entering the house I have soon on the left the kitchen table and usually my mother is sitting at the table reading the newspaper. Same as usual yesterday, but there was an element of novelty: a letter written by hand addressed to me was in plain sight on the kitchen table and my mother can't contain her curiosity. I couldn't avoid to open the letter in front of her and she obviously wanted to see the postcard... imagine my mother perplexed seeing the postcard and then she said: this woman (referring to Blue) was a bit androgynous... and I... No, mum, he is a man... another perplexed expression on my mother face and then... well, can I have it for my collection? (my mother is a postcard collector...). No, mum, you can't have it... sad expression of my mother!

Below the cover for your reference...

 

Katrina Strauss & Blue Ruin 3

Thanks to Katrina Strauss for sending me the beautiful postcard of Blue Ruin 3's cover by wonderful artist P.L. Nunn. I also want to write this to let you know what happened. Yesterday as usual I was come back to home for work more or less at dinner time. Entering the house I have soon on the left the kitchen table and usually my mother is sitting at the table reading the newspaper. Same as usual yesterday, but there was an element of novelty: a letter written by hand addressed to me was in plain sight on the kitchen table and my mother can't contain her curiosity. I couldn't avoid to open the letter in front of her and she obviously wanted to see the postcard... imagine my mother perplexed seeing the postcard and then she said: this woman (referring to Blue) was a bit androgynous... and I... No, mum, he is a man... another perplexed expression on my mother face and then... well, can I have it for my collection? (my mother is a postcard collector...). No, mum, you can't have it... sad expression of my mother!

Below the cover for your reference...