Arts BOOK REVIEW: Please Miss: A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Penis by Grace Lavery Please Miss: A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Penis Grace Lavery Grace Lavery is in their own words ‘a reformed druggie, an unreformed omnisexual chaos Muppet, and 100 percent, all-natural, synthetic female hormone monster’. In this meta surreal book she solves her “penis problem,” begins receivin By Eric Page • 3 min read
Arts REVIEW: Writing Our Space: An LGBTQ+ Anthology Writing our Space with a foreword from editors Eilidh Akilade and Ross Tanner which explores the genesis of the book and the collection of short pieces elicited from a wide LGBTQI+ pool of writers is wonderful. I could gush about it, but I’ll say buy it, read it, enjoy it for yourself; then gush. By Eric Page • 2 min read
Arts REVIEW: Deep Sniff by Adam Zmith The book takes us on a radical journey, pushing at boundaries, lube’d up by our relationship with poppers, stretching us open, filling us with thick gorgeous fat facts, celebrating our filthy minds, erotic bodies, and gorgeous unstoppable need for pleasure. By Eric Page • 2 min read
Arts BOOK REVIEW: Another Time, Another Place Jodi Taylor Taylors books excel in giving us real emotional connections with her wide cast of characters and it’s not all laughter and fun, there some hard lessons from life in these books. By Eric Page • 2 min read
Arts BOOK REVIEW: Two Gentlemen Sharing by William Corlett It’s a brilliant examination of clash, culture, class, urban and country, gay and straight, progressive and intolerant and made me laugh out loud constantly. Corlett’s humour is gentle but relentless, ravaging personal prejudices and giving us more than a few delightful revelations as the story unf By Eric Page • 2 min read
Arts BOOK REVIEW: Bitch Doctrine – Essays for Dissenting Adults: Laurie Penny Noted British feminist writer tackles gender, sexism, identity, and power issues in a world being laid waste by “kamikaze capitalism.” From her opening premise that ‘toxic masculinity is killing the world’ you’ve got a really clear idea of where this elegant, refined and ruthlessly researched, argue By Eric Page • 2 min read
Arts BOOK REVIEW: Gay in the 80: From fighting for our rights to fighting for our lives : Colin Clews Gay in the 80s examines a number of the events and issues in the UK, USA and Australia, giving a comprehensive perspective of LGBT reality during this decade The book covers the broad political context of the 1980s and takes a comparative approach to events in these countries from Clewes personal ex By Eric Page • 2 min read
