It's paperback pub week for Manuel Betancourt's THE MALE GAZED!

🌹Thirst traps, drag queens, Antonio Banderas, and telenovelas—this memoir-in-essays is as much a coming of age as a coming out book.

Find your copy at your local bookseller!
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🐍YOU ARE THE SNAKE, video #2: Screen Tests🐍 Thank you to my beautiful subjects for being willing to sit for 3 mins doing nothing.

The spoken lines are from the last story in the collection, 'Is it Jackal or is it Dragon.'

Buy YOU ARE THE SNAKE here: softskull.com/books/you-are-…

YOU ARE THE SNAKE by @JulietEscoria is one of @jimvermin's must-read story collection picks for Los Angeles Times.

Darn tootin'. 🍭

Check the full list here:
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not to be missed 💫

Calling it now. September is for big, weird feelings.

From Hiromi Kawakami, a speculative fiction masterpiece envisions an Earth where humans are nearing extinction.

Under the Eye of the Big Bird—available for preorder now.
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spending three hours on the tattoo table talking about Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore's work like some kind of fucking nerd

Early finished copies of your new obsession are landing.

🍭 “Perfectly captures the electric joys and sorrows of living a half-feral life.” —Jenny Offill, author of Weather

YOU ARE THE SNAKE: Stories, by Juliet Escoria—on shelves in just about a month.
penguinrandomhouse.com/books/738579/y…

Mothers! Some of us have them. Some of us are them. We've got some books about that.
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you guys are really going to want to read this one lol
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Author and essayist José Vadi joins us to explore skating’s mainstream appeal, models-slash-skaters, and his new book “Chipped: Writing From a Skateboarder’s Lens.” 🛹

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Heads up!

Love this review in the Whitney Review, 'TOUCHING THE ART is a book by simplistic classification only; it's a portal into the worlds Sycamore explores, which are often brutal and eye-opening. Sycamore's thoughtful language and gentle handiwork leave an indelible mark...'🌷

Hey.
Quick reminder.
You're going to be fucking obsessed with the new Juliet Escoria.

You Are the Snake lands in June.
softskull.com/books/you-are-…

Did you know North Figueroa Bookshop has a Marxist feminist reading group? Looks good.
northfigbookshop.com/event/#calenda…

Three tickets to Challengers please.

ICYMI

Just Dr. Dr. Taylor Byas, Ph.D. at Skylight Books in Los Angeles!

'Readers might be on my side the first time I described a mosh pit or the way that malnutrition fogs up your brain, but seven DIY shows and ten strained lunches later, they might want to hurl my book, and themselves, into the bus lane.'
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