Posts Tagged ‘Lethe Press’
August 2nd, 2011 by Kassa / 297 views
Title: Bear Like Me 
Author: Jonathan Cohen
Publisher: Lethe Press
Length: Novel / 250 pgs
Buy the book: Amazon
Blurb:
Fired from his job at the slick gay lifestyle magazine, Phag, Peter Mallory has to find a way to make a living. When his best friend suggests writing a book about the bear community, Peter is skeptical. But as soon as he realizes that with a new “bear” look he can go undercover at his old job and get his revenge, Peter is letting his body hair grow and practicing the fine art of flannel couture. When his sabotage campaign starts to work almost too well, Peter starts to run the risk of discovery. And when an intriguing bear steals his heart, he realizes that his double existence could end very badly. Peter Mallory is definitely in for the ride of his life!
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May 24th, 2011 by Kassa / 489 views
Title: Blame it on the Raging Hormones 
Author: Nathan Goh
Publisher: Lethe Press
Length: Novel / 200 pgs
Buy the book: Amazon
Blurb:
This coming-of-age memoir of an ordinary gay boy from Singapore, in the form of an online journal, is brutally honest, endearing, poignant and raw. Nicky, an insecure youth in Singapore, goes on a journey of love and self-discovery and soon crashes into an underworld of sex, drugs, hustling and betrayal. After a series of failed romance, he heads for a breakdown, especially when his three friends, Dexter, Daniel and Dave, the Triple Ds, who support and guide him, have problems of their own and cannot help him. Can Nicky survive the cruel gay world of superficialities? Will he ever find true love? And is that even the solution to all his problems?
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February 10th, 2011 by Kassa / 1,253 views
Title: Icarus volume 6: The Magazine of Gay Speculative Fiction 
Publisher: Lethe Press
Length: 60 pages
Buy the book: Publisher
Fall 2010: Halloween is coming. Store shelves are filled with objets d’autumn and jack o’lanterns. The air is cooling and mornings are darker. Trees are stripping bare. There’s the rushing sound of fallen leaves swirling through deserted streets. Don’t be afraid to turn the pages that follow. We have a naughty infamous bogeyman, trips gone awry, Norse poems and boys that haunt in this issue of Icarus. So turn down all the lights but one.
Stories by Thomas Fuchs, Jeff Mann, Viet Dinh, Troy Carlyle, Kelly McQuain; interview with Robert Duncan
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January 4th, 2011 by Kassa / 824 views
Title: The Mariposa Club 
Author: Rigoberto Gonzalez
Publisher: Lethe Press
Length: Novel /250 pages
Buy the book: Paperback, Ebook
Blurb:
As they embark on their final year of high school, the Fierce Foursome—Maui, Trini, Isaac, and Liberace—decide to do something big, something that will memorialize their friendships for when they all go their separate ways and begin their new “adult” lives.
Already accustomed to the hardships that come with being openly gay in high school (not to mention in their homes), the boys can’t begin to imagine what they will be faced with when they set out to create Caliente Valley High School’s first GLBTQ club.
All four boys are remarkably different, and they have been brought together for the time being by their shared feelings of being on the periphery at school, at home, and in the community. But once the Mariposa Club is formed, they will not only have a place where they belong and that is all their own, but it will be a place for future students who feel as displaced as they do.
Little do they know that when the town is rocked by a tragic homophobic incident, the high school and entire community will turn to the Mariposa Club as a symbol of their grief and fear.
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November 4th, 2010 by Kassa / 669 views
Title: Out of the Ashes (A Strong and Sudden Thaw #2) 
Author: R.W. Day
Publisher: Lethe Press
Length: Novel / 300 pgs
Buy the book: Publisher, Amazon
Blurb:
In this sequel to A Strong & Sudden Thaw, the world after the Ice remains a dangerous place. Callum and David have survived the dragons but rebuilding lives is no easy task. The army comes to enforce an evacuation with claims of tainted groundwater and radiation. The Brethren, a crazed religious order, seeks to control the new world through preaching intolerance and forced conversion.
-Warning this review will contain spoilers-
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Posted in 2.5 stars, Fiction, Gay, Literature, Reviews, Science Fiction | 2 Comments »
September 14th, 2010 by Kassa / 3,620 views
Title: Tented 
Editor: Jerry Wheeler
Publisher: Lethe Press
Length:: Anthology 200 pgs
Buy the book: Publisher
Blurb:
Hurry! Hurry! Hurry! Step right up and read stories both salacious and miraculous! Only fifteen dollars for the Grand Tour of Tented! That’s three fins to meet the Great Masturbator! Three Lincolns to explore a post-apocalyptic future where every clown has his very own catamite! Yes, my friends, these stories are guaranteed to amaze, beguile, and captivate. That’s the ABC’s, my boy. Stay close, you might learn something. We have acrobats ready to assume positions, knife-throwers blade in-hand, treats like sticky cotton candy, and a Hall of Mirrors to reflect your deepest desires!
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Posted in 3.5 stars, Anthology, Erotica, Fiction, Gay, Reviews | 7 Comments »
September 7th, 2010 by Kassa / 1,078 views
Title: If The Spirit Moves You 
Author: Dale Chase
Publisher: Lethe Press
Length: 180 pages
Buy the Book: Amazon
Blurb:
They say ‘Love never dies’… and neither does the passion between men when written by erotic storyteller Dale Chase. If the Spirit Moves You offers readers a collection of stories featuring spirits who cannot deny their attraction to mortals; these ghosts seek out warm flesh, but not to harm but to hold. And seduce. From a screenwriter’s ethereal muse to an amorous haunt in a library, good spirits promise that anything that can go bump in the night will end with a satisfied moan.
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July 8th, 2010 by Kassa / 2,212 views
Title: Seven Sweet Things: A Novella with Recipes 
Author: Shaun Levin
Publisher: Lethe Press
Length: 142 pages
Buy the book: Publisher
Blurb:
An affair that begins in an Internet chatroom takes the narrator and his lover, Martin, further into love than either could have imagined. Disturbingly honest and intensely erotic, Seven Sweet Things is as much an exploration of love as it is the lovers’ exploration of London. Eking out a living by selling cakes and desserts, the narrator loves reading Plato, sitting on park benches, and feeding his beloved. Each meeting between them is framed by the making, or the promise of a sweet thing (chocolate-coconut fudge bars, oatmeal cookies, rum-glazed chocolate cake, meringues). The landscape shifts from hidden archaeological mysteries in London to a fantastical stay in an old house in Yorkshire, and from Clissold Park in North London to Roslyn Glen in Scotland, where the narrator gets invited to prepare extravagant desserts for an aristocratic family.
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June 17th, 2010 by Kassa / 1,192 views
Title: The Unborn Spouse Situation 
Author: Matt Rauscher
Publisher: Lethe Press
Length:: Novel/310 pages ebook
Buy the book: Giovanni’s Room / ebook
Blurb:
Augie Schoenberg is twenty-two, an aspiring filmmaker at a school without a film school, and desperately single. He’s just moved into the Harley Hutt, the wildest party house on campus, and has fallen hard for his roommate Victor Radhakrishna, a campus political activist who is, for Augie, ”a practical demi-god: a crusader for justice in skateboarding shoes.” The problem is, Augie is the only gay one in the house – or so he thinks. Set in a raucous Midwestern college town, The Unborn Spouse Situation is a darkly comic novel of sex, betrayal, and cultural clashes. Augie’s search for love takes him from the cornfields of Illinois, to the gay beach and underground clubs of Chicago, and finally to the ecstasy-fueled nightlife of London, where Victor’s secret threatens to keep the two apart forever. Whether in this relationship, or in two other doomed romances – one with a deeply closeted Mexican-American frat boy, and the other with a Cuban pro baseball player – Augie finds that the deceptively free Midwestern environment holds more obstacles to these relationships than even he had thought. Written in a raucous, voyeuristic style, Augie’s story won’t disappoint readers looking for a wild, sexy ride.
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June 1st, 2010 by Kassa / 757 views
Title: An Ideal for Living 
Author: Marshall Moore
Publisher: Lethe Press
Length:: Novel/215 pages
Buy the book: Amazon , ebook
Blurb:
Grace White and her brother Robert, overweight and affluent, are desperate to hang onto their respective love interests. Grace’s husband Rich is bonking every woman he can talk into bed. Grace is willing to look beyond his affairs if she can just have her marriage back. Robert’s law school fling James’s interest diminished as Robert’s waistline increased, but Robert has never moved on. The only solution? Losing those excess pounds… by any means necessary. And when James finds a supernatural healer who can sculpt living flesh like clay, beautiful ugliness ensues. Will Robert and Grace get what they want, or what they deserve? In An Ideal for Living, Marshall Moore has written a shocking fantastique, a novel that captures the Zeitgeist of contemporary urban life, where beauty is a commodity craved, consumed, and traded.
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