![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Now restored gloriously to print in a first-ever trade paperback edition, The Happy Hooker will reintroduce a whole new generation to the carefree days of swinging in the '60s and '70s. Hollander left no vice unturned, covering lesbianism, bondage, and other sexual appetites with a frank tone that left the reader with no doubt that they were listening to a master…or mistress, as it were. The 30th anniversary edition of one of the modern classics of the sexual revolution with a new Afterword by the author.Īn international phenomenon upon its initial publication in 1972, The Happy Hooker established Xaviera Hollander previously the most powerful madam in New York City as the world's best-known observer and commentator on sexual issues.Ī racy account of her life behind the brothel door, The Happy Hooker became an instant classic that marked the intersection between the Playboy generation and the sexual revolution of the feminist era. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Someone who realizes that honest effort and responsibility is sexy. ![]() I have a strong preference for the male love interest to not be some alpha dom who strong-arms his way through (IE: no bitch-breaking) but rather a more gentle and emotionally attentive type who isn't focused on trying to prove himself or tear her defenses down, but rather just be a genuine and interested partner. So a fiery hell-raising bitch with a no-nonsense attitude towards men who somehow falls in love with someone who manages to slip past all her guards and into her sheets. The kind of woman that is attractive but attracts all the wrong types. ![]() Who shuns the toxic alphadom mentality and puts forward a rebellious "I see through your B/S" when it comes to someone trying to woo their way into her pants. Hello, I am looking for a good story involving a woman who is sick to death of men and their raw machismo, egotism, swagger, and cock-sure attitudes. ![]() ![]() ![]() Audiobook publishers and voice actors may disagree, of course. Digital narration, meanwhile, makes it more economically feasible for small publishing houses and independent writers to enter the audiobook market, Apple says. The current model involves authors or, more often, voice actors recording books-a process that can take weeks and cost publishers thousands of dollars. ![]() "Digitally narrated titles are a valuable complement to professionally narrated audiobooks, and will help bring audio to as many books and as many people as possible," Apple says. Apple is also experimenting with nonfiction and self-development, with plans for wider availability in the future. ![]() Madison, for example, is a soprano narrating Loving From Afar by romance writer Mona Ingram, while baritone Jackson reads Alex Lyttle's fiction title From Ant to Eagle. "Apple Books digital narration brings together advanced speech synthesis technology with important work by teams of linguists, quality control specialists, and audio engineers to produce high-quality audiobooks from an ebook file," Apple says on its authors page.Īs The Guardian notes, you can find these titles on Apple Books by searching for "AI narration." The publisher description will say: "This is an Apple Books audiobook narrated by a digital voice based on a human narrator."ĭigital voices are created and optimized for different genres. ![]() ![]() ![]() Lou had just moved into a new building where no one knew he was trans. This excerpt is from the early 1980s during a time when Lou was living in San Francisco’s Mission District. His informal writing is familiar, like texts from a close friend about a new crush. Raised Catholic, he more than once compared his partners to God. He took his name from Lou Reed, rode a motorcycle, frequented beatnik bars, frequented gay bars, wore an opal ring. He liked when drag queens called him “Butch,” soft tufts of hair on a man’s unshaven cheek, and cream and sugar in his coffee. From the poetry of Algernon Charles Swinburne to his Jockey shorts, Lou was particular yet varied in his tastes. Lou braided contemporary and past cultural iconography to form an identity he didn’t see articulated in any one singular source. Instead, we selected moments of his evolving relationships, selfhood, and ways of living. We didn’t attempt to encompass the full breadth of Lou’s journaling. Since we already knew the end of Lou’s story, we edited this volume to ensure that the sadness of his premature death didn’t overshadow his life. ![]() Born in Milwaukee in 1951, Lou journaled from age 11 until his AIDS-related death in San Francisco in 1991. Lou was a writer, activist, typesetter, trans historian, and queer revolutionary. The following is an excerpt from We Both Laughed in Pleasure: The Selected Diaries of Lou Sullivan. ![]() ![]() ![]() Beware.įun fact number two, I live in a little seaside town named Colbie.Ĭolbie is small, like barely there tiny. No lie, this is pretty much how things are gonna be all the time going forward. ![]() ![]() LET’S kick this off with some hardcore exposition and a whole lot of bizarre shit. To Rexley, the imaginary boy who was my friend when I had none. This book contains depictions of violence, death, and death of a parent. To request permission and all other inquiries, contact NineStar Press at available in Print, ISBN: 978-1-64890-498-1 No part of this publication may be reproduced in any material form, whether by printing, photocopying, scanning or otherwise without the written permission of the publisher. Any resemblance to actual persons living or dead, business establishments, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.Īll rights reserved. Names, characters, places, and incidents are either the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Published in June 2022 by NineStar Press, New Mexico, USA. A NineStar Press Publication Novas Got Nerve ![]() ![]() ![]() Maisie internalizes her pain and continually places herself in dangerous situations. ![]() The paths of the five friends cross and crisscross over the decades as they struggle to overcome, or at least forget, the trauma they endured during their years at the Mission.įuelled by rage and furious with God, Clara finds her way into the dangerous, highly charged world of the American Indian Movement. Taken from their families when they are very small and sent to a remote, church-run residential school, Kenny, Lucy, Clara, Howie and Maisie are barely out of childhood when they are finally released after years of detention.Īlone and without any skills, support or families, the teens find their way to the seedy and foreign world of Downtown Eastside Vancouver, where they cling together, striving to find a place of safety and belonging in a world that doesn’t want them. ![]() ![]() ![]() Four years later, DC Comics released what would become one of Miller’s greatest achievements. In 1982, Miller created the story and artwork for Wolverine’s solo debut in Wolverine #1. Within one of the first issues in which Miller wrote Daredevil, he introduced a character of his own creation – Elektra. Just over a year later Miller was given complete control over writing and drawing Daredevil. In 1979, 22-year-old Frank Miller began drawing for Marvel’s bi-monthly Daredevil comic book. ![]() Home > Artists > Frank Miller Frank Miller Born: JanuBiographyįrank Miller is regarded as one of the most influential and awarded professionals in the entertainment industry today, known for his intense, hard-boiled storytelling and gritty noir aesthetic across comics, graphic novels, and film. ![]() ![]() ![]() Sometimes I think it’s a musical! There’s lots of singing and dancing and a fair amount of romance and joy. ![]() How then would you describe The Cerulean Queen, genre-wise? Now, in the previous interview we did about the first book, A Queen In Hiding, you said that novel was an epic fantasy story, but that later volumes drew from other genres as well. This book picks up the morning when Cerulia sneaks into the Throne Room to throw off all her disguises. It’s about the efforts the princess Cerulia to win back her throne from usurpers but that’s only one of the many storylines.Īnd then for people who have, what is The Cerulean Queen about? The Nine Realms is a second world fantasy, set in a place the inhabitants call Ennea Mon, “The World Of The Nine.” The setting is pre-modern (no electricity). In the following email interview, she discusses both this series and this final book, as well as what she thinks you should read when you’re done with this saga.įor people who haven’t read any of these books, what is The Nine Realms series about and what kind of world is it set in? With The Cerulean Queen ( paperback, Kindle), writer Sarah Kozloff is concluding The Nine Realms quartet she launched this past January with A Queen In Hiding, and then continued in February and March with The Queen Of Raiders and A Broken Queen, respectfully. ![]() ![]() All she truly knows is that she is falling in love with a handsome English earl, and that the life unfolding before her seems full of wondrous possibilities… Review Sheridan awakens in Westmoreland’s mansion with no memory of who she is the only hint of her past is the puzzling fact that everyone calls her Miss Lancaster. And just as Sheridan is about to speak, she steps into the path of a cargo net loaded with crates! Standing on the pier, Stephen Westmoreland, the Earl of Langford, assumes the young woman coming toward him is Charise Lancaster - and informs her of his inadvertent role in a fatal accident involving Lord Burleton the night before. When her charge elopes with a stranger, Sheridan wonders how she will ever explain it to Charise’s intended, Lord Burleton. A teacher in a school for wealthy young ladies, Sheridan, Bromleigh is hired to accompany one of her students, heiress Charise Lancaster, to England to meet her fiancé. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Razing the cultural paradigm that the ideal love is infused with sex and desire, she provides a new path to love that is sacred, redemptive, and healing for individuals and for a nation. In thirteen concise chapters, hooks examines her own search for emotional connection and society’s failure to provide a model for learning to love. In its place she offers a proactive new ethic for a people and a society bereft with lovelessness.Īs bell hooks uses her incisive mind and razor-sharp pen to explore the question “What is love?” her answers strike at both the mind and heart. ![]() Here, at her most provocative and intensely personal, bell hooks (renowned scholar, cultural critic, and feminist) skewers our view of love as romance. we would all love better if we used it as a verb,” writes bell hooks as she comes out fighting and on fire in All About Love. “The word ‘love’ is most often defined as a noun, yet. The acclaimed first volume in bell hooks' "Love Song to the Nation" ![]() |