Event: Outlines, A Gay Pride Reading Extravaganza

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Date: Wednesday, June 30, 2010
Time: 19.00 - 20.00
Place: Housing Works Bookstore
126 Crosby Street
New York, NY

"An adult reading for the wayward homophile."

William Johnson, editor and publisher of the journal Mary Literary, hosts a Gay Pride reading extravaganza! Jameson Currier reads from his most recent novel, The Wolf at the Door, set in a haunted gay-owned guesthouse in New Orleans. Musician and writer Rob Stephenson will read from his new novel, Passes Through, while Robert Smith of the monthly queer reading series Brother, My Lover represents and Aaron Tilford, creator and editor of Spunk [arts] Magazine, titillates!

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The Wolf at the Door by Jameson Currier
Paperback: 282 pages
Publisher: Chelsea Station Editions (April 1, 2010)
ISBN-10: 0984470700
ISBN-13: 978-0984470709
Amazon: The Wolf at the Door

From the author of Where the Rainbow Ends and The Haunted Heart comes a witty tour de force of spirits, spooks, and sinners, a supernatural roller coaster set in the Big Easy that is giddy, soulful and sentimental. When a death occurs at Le Petite Paradis, a guesthouse in the French Quarter of New Orleans, the spirit world becomes unsettled, or so Avery Greene Dalyrymple III, the co-owner believes. The son and grandson of Southern evangelists, Avery is also an overworked and overwrought middle-aged gay man, a cynical big-time drinker and sinner fairly certain he can maintain a family of other deviants and delinquents stumbling along Bourbon Street to keep him company. But Avery is also the only person in contact with the spirit world on his property ghosts from the house's origins during the 1820s and he must use the history left behind from another ghost a gay man from the 1970s to find a way to restore peace to his household and rejuvenate his faith.

Passes Through by Rob Stephenson
Paperback: 208 pages
Publisher: Fiction Collective 2; 1 edition (February 17, 2010)
ISBN-10: 1573661554
ISBN-13: 978-1573661553
Amazon: Passes Through

In language that is frank and uncompromising, Rob Stephenson's debut novel, "Passes Through", moves forward in a rare and daring manner. Part journal, part meditation on aesthetics, part dreamscape, "Passes Through" investigates experience, identity, beauty, and sexuality, while provocatively complicating such distinctions as writing versus revision and imagination versus observation. It is a narrative of and about language, a narrative of and about narrative. Can we truly experience the present, the novel asks? No, we cannot, "Passes Through" suggests again and again. Stephenson throws to the wayside all of the traditional elements of fiction and in doing so composes a sort of musical composition of obsessive consciousness and selfhood's slippage. This haunting novel never takes the easy route and baffles and confounds on its way toward a stunning yet inevitable finale.