false 164 609 223 true 5643677 read 1 true 97516 currently-reading 385 true 97515 to-read 77 false 4538032 fat-studies 65 false 3678375 queer 27 false 3594145 punk-rock 22 false 3555533 zine-books 17 false 3555509 women-in-music 15 false 3598621 music 14 false 4478982 art 14 false 4621095 sociology 8 false 3555470 paris 7 false 4543485 leftist-studies 5 false 4585621 san-francisco 4 false 1399244 wish-i-owned 4 false 3315454 contributor-copies 3 false 4683537 overlooked-and-underrated 3 false 5012389 new-narrative 3 false 5127952 bohemianism 2 false 4816121 young-adult 2 false 4742543 algeria http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/78606036 Out in the Country: Youth, Media, and Queer Visibility in Rural America (Intersections: Transdisciplinary Perspectives on Genders and Sexualities Series) by Mary L. Gray
bookshelves: queer, to-read
]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/67998398 to: Ties That Bind: Familial Homophobia and Its Consequences (Hardcover) by Sarah Schulman
bookshelves: queer
This book is a totally vital read. Sarah Schulman's insights are so penetrating you will find yourself reevaluating your whole life in the light of it.

I do wonder since she points out that homophobia is not actually fear, rather it's a pleasure system, that perhaps it might be more accurate to talk about it as heterosexual supremacy rather than as homophobia, but I guess the term is more familiar and easier to use.

It would be great if therapists would read this book and incorporate its ideas into their practice.

It would also be great if the mainstream media paid some attention and gave Sarah Schulman the opportunity to talk to the general public about her ideas, which could make the world better for everyone if queers were enabled to make more contributions to society instead of being marginalized. ]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/78321123 Alive in Necropolis (Hardcover) by Doug Dorst
bookshelves: currently-reading
]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76538099 Gluck: 1895-1978 : Her Biography (Hardcover) by Diana Souhami
bookshelves: art, queer
]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73887154 to: Gimme Something Better: The Profound, Progressive, and Occasionally Pointless History of Bay Area Punk from Dead Kennedys to Green Day (Paperback) by Jack Boulware
bookshelves: music, punk-rock, san-francisco
The 500 pages of this book flew by. It covers quite a length of time, about 25 years from the late 70s to the present. All of the text is from excerpts of interviews with participants in the various phases of the Bay Area scene.

In some cases editing makes people appear to comment on other people in a way that the interviewees probably didn't intend. Also a lack of contextualizing intros to the chapters makes the chronology unclear. For instance, two chapters on 924 Gilman, the second of which mentions that Tim Yohannan quit and a new crew started running it, but doesn't make clear whether this happened in the middle of the previous chapter's events or after it. Also, the Dead Kennedys' Frankenchrist legal battle and the lawsuits between band members are in the same chapter, with no indication that more than a decade separated the events.

The sheer quantity of material meant that several chapters didn't make it and are on the associated website instead; I would have preferred the chapter on Epicenter to be in the book in favor of some of the material on fights.

But complaints aside (and where would the San Francisco Bay Area punk scene be without complaints) it's definitely a worthwhile read. ]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75612437 Punk Record Labels and the Struggle for Autonomy: The Emergence of DIY (Critical Media Studies) by Alan O'Connor
bookshelves: to-read
]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74949402 larry-bob's review of Enter at Your Own Risk: The Dangerous Art of Dennis Cooper
by Leora Lev

I have interviewed Dennis a couple of times... in the first one he also mentions de Sade. http://www.io.com/~larrybob/cooperint.ht...

]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74949522 Ole Bull: Norway's Romantic Musician and Cosmopolitan Patriot (Hardcover) by Einar Ingvald Haugen
bookshelves: to-read
]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74949402 Enter at Your Own Risk: The Dangerous Art of Dennis Cooper (Hardcover) by Leora Lev
bookshelves: to-read
]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73907273 Future of the Past: Reviving the Queer Archives (Paperback) by Ryan Conrad
bookshelves: to-read
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