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Arab Melancholia by Taia Abdellah
$32.99 AUD
Category: Gay Male & Bi Biography/Memoir | Series: Semiotext(e) / Native Agents
I had to rediscover who I was. And that's why I left the apartment...And there I was, right in the heart of the Arab world, a world that never tired of making the same mistakes over and over...I had no more leniency when it came to the Arab world...None for the Arabs and none for myself. I suddenly saw ...Show more
Bad Reputation by Penny Arcade
$39.99 AUD
Category: General Biography / Memoir | Series: Semiotext(e) / Native Agents
A reform-school runaway at thirteen, a performer in the legendary New York City Playhouse of the Ridiculous at seventeen, and an escapee from Andy Warhol's Factory scene at nineteen, Penny Arcade (born Susanna Ventura) emerged in the 1980s as a primal force on the New York art scene and an originator of ...Show more
Castle Faggot by Derek McCormack
$32.99 AUD
Category: Gay & Bi Male Fiction | Series: Semiotext(e) / Native Agents Ser.
A dark satire about an amusement park more deranged than anything Disney could imagine: a playland for gay men called Faggotland.Castle Faggot is Derek McCormack's darkest and most delicious book yet, a satire of sugary cereals and Saturday morning cartoons set in an amusement park more deranged than an ...Show more
David Wojnarowicz: A Definitive History of Five or Six Years on the Lower East Side by LOTRINGER AND WOJNAOWICZ
$69.99 AUD
Category: Gay Male & Bi Biography/Memoir | Series: Semiotext(e) / Native Agents Ser.
Artist David Wojnarowicz on his work, his aspirations, his personal history, his political views; Wojnarowicz in dialogue with Sylv re Lotringer, along with personal accounts from friends and fellow artists collected after Wojnarowicz's death.In February 1991, the artist David Wojnarowicz (1954-1992) an ...Show more
Depraved Indifference by Gary Indiana; A. S. Hamrah (Introduction by)
$36.99 AUD
Category: LGBTI & Queer Studies | Series: Semiotext(e) / Native Agents Ser.
Gary Indiana, a "huge satirical talent" (New York Times), brings us a darkly comic novel fueled by the virtuoso con artist Evangeline Slote and her extravagant life of chicanery and petty crime. She thrives on seduction, manipulation, and the humiliation of everybody in her orbit. And she has a genius f ...Show more
Fascination - Memoirs by Kevin Killian
$37.99 AUD
Category: Gay Male & Bi Biography/Memoir | Series: Semiotext(e) / Native Agents Ser.
A memoir of gay life in 1970s Long Island by one of the leading proponents of the New Narrative movement. Fascination brings together an early memoir, Bedrooms Have Windows (1989) and a previously unpublished prose work, Bachelors Get Lonely, by the poet and novelist Kevin Killian, one of the founding m ...Show more
Halsted Plays Himself by Jones William
$44.95 AUD
Category: Biography / Memoir | Series: Semiotext(e) / Native Agents
Fred Halsted's L.A. Plays Itself (1972) was gay porn's first masterpiece: a sexually explicit, autobiographical, experimental film whose New York screening left even Salvador Dali repeatedly muttering "new information for me." Halsted, a self-taught filmmaker, shot the film over a period of three years ...Show more
Last Seen Entering the Biltmore by Gary Indiana
$27.95 AUD
Category: Out of Print | Series: Semiotext(e) / Native Agents Ser.
Previously unpublished plays and writings by one of today's foremost satirical authors. Before publishing his celebrated first novel, Horse Crazy, in 1987, Gary Indiana wrote and directed twelve plays for an informal company whose performers included the painter Bill Rice, composer Evan Lurie, the poet ...Show more
Learning What Love Means by Mathieu Lindon, Bruce Benderson (Translator)
$37.99 AUD
Category: Gay Male & Bi Biography/Memoir | Series: Semiotext(e) / Native Agents Series
"I loved Michel as Michel, not as a father. Never did I feel the slightest jealousy or the slightest embitterment or exasperation when it came to him. … I was intensely close to Michel for a full six years, until his death, and I lived in his apartment for close to a year. Today I see that time as the p ...Show more
New Fuck You: Adventures in Lesbian Reading by Eileen Myles and Liz Kotz
$24.99 AUD
Category: Lesbian & Bi Anthology | Series: Semiotext(e) / Native Agents
Borrowing its name from the notorious '60s Ed Sanders magazine, Fuck You: A Magazine of the Arts, the editors have figured a way to rehone its countercultural and frictional stance with style and aplomb. A unique and provocative anthology of lesbian writing, guaranteed to soothe the soulful and savage t ...Show more
Nicolas Pages by Guillaume Dustan
$36.99 AUD
Category: Gay & Bi Male Fiction | Series: Semiotext(e) / Native Agents Ser.
An ode to mad love, awarded the Prix de Flore in 1999. Published in 1999 and awarded that year's Prix de Flore, Nicolas Pages marks a departure from the Sadean preoccupations of Guillaume Dustan's first three novels; it is, in essence, a love story. Inspired by a failed romance with the Swiss artist-wri ...Show more
Reverse Cowgirl by McKenzie Wark
$35.00 AUD
Category: Trans & Gender Diverse Biography / Memoir | Series: Semiotext(e) / Native Agents
McKenzie Wark invents a new genre for another gender: not a memoir but an auto-ethnography of the opacity of the self.Another genre for another gender.What if you were trans and didn't know it? What if there were some hole in your life and you didn't even know it was there? What if you went through life ...Show more