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With her unsurpassed visual imagination, let Alison Bechdel tell you her story in a creative assault of images and stimulating text. You’ll want to come to every meeting to hear the 1001 thoughts generated by her new masterpiece. Price: $22, plus tax, at any branch of the University Book Store. Mention that you are a member of one of my book clubs and they will give you a discount. Nick DiMartino, SGLBC Facilitator ************************************ OUR BOOK FOR JUNE THE SWIMMING-POOL LIBRARY Oh boy, do I have a good one for June! How do you follow an act like Alison Bechdel? The only way to proceed after an author that brilliant is to balance her with the other towering gay writing talent alive today, Alan Hollinghurst. I think we all loved THE LINE OF BEAUTY, every one of us. And okay, some of you weren’t crazy about THE STRANGER’S CHILD, but I think that’s because its pleasures are for readers who understand the conventions he’s breaking -- sorta like Stephen Sondheim’s late musicals -- folks who “know” musicals adore his iconoclastic late musicals, but those of us who like tunes in our musicals avoid anything after SWEENEY TODD. Anyway, for June let’s all read Alan Hollinghurst’s very first novel, not so experimental, just smart and sexy and the one that propelled him to fame, THE SWIMMING-POOL LIBRARY, hot enough to keep your attention if you decide to read it in the park in the sun, with his trademark gorgeous British prose. I’ll order some copies through University Book Store. It’s a paperback, $15.95, with tax a little over $17. With our book club discount, I can get copies for a total with tax of $14. I’ll bring some next Wednesday. Email me to reserve a copy. And enjoy meeting Will Beckwith and all the lads at the Corinthian Club! Nick ************************************ Come join us any Wednesday, 6-7:15pm at Feel free to just show up, whether you’ve finished the book or not. Read the SGN interview with Nick about the club Read all about SASG, our hosts 2009 Breakfast with Scot Michael Downing Orange Are Not the Only Fruit Jeanette Winterson I Am Not Myself These Days John Kilmer-Purcell The City and the Pillar Gore Vidal The Price of Salt Patricia Highsmith Fun Home Alison Bechdel Queer William Burroughs A Fairly Honourable Defeat Iris Murdoch The Thief’s Journal Jean Genet Wild Dogs Helen Humphreys The Gifts of the Body Rebecca Brown Death in Venice Thomas Mann 2010 The Immoralist Andre Gide A Single Man Christopher Isherwood The Pure and the Impure Colette The Last of the Wine Mary Renault Satyricon Petronius Maurice E. M. Forster Leaves of Grass Walt Whitman Dog Years Mark Doty Portrait of the Addict as a Young Man Bill Clegg Confessions of a Mask Yukio Mishima Stuck Rubber Baby Howard Cruse My Father and Myself J. R. Ackerley 2011 Hindoo Holiday J. R. Ackerley The Line of Beauty Alan Hollinghurst Dry Augusten Burroughs We Think the World of You J. R. Ackerley Just Kids Patti Smith The Counterfeiters Andre Gide Union Atlantic Adam Haslett Teleny and Camille Jon Macy, adapted from Oscar Wilde and His Circle Moffie Andre Carl van der Merwe The Ladies Doris Grumbach 2012 The Stranger’s Child Alan Hollinghurst We the Animals Justin Torres Jack Holmes and His Friend Edmund White Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? Jeanette Winterson Are You My Mother? Alison Bechdel ******************* http://faculty.washington.edu/swittet/Turkey/ http://faculty.washington.edu/swittet/France/ http://faculty.washington.edu/swittet/SGLBookClub/ |
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