The Eva Palmer audiobook will soon come out from Princeton Audio. Now I’m turning to the LGBTQ+ “Midnight in Paris,” a comedy of manners set on Left Bank in 1926. Totally obsessed with audiobooks that take you there.
(c) Eliza Jackson
If you find yourself stuck on an SNCF railway platform, a new book about Natalie Barney and her circle will take you back to a more civilized era when appointments could actually be kept: We Met in Paris: Grace Frick and her Life with Marguerite Yourcenar
“We got stuck with the Puritans.”Dan Savage published The Kid in 1999, when I was trying to conceive Wee Sprite. His page-turning memoir tells “What Happened After My Boyfriend and I Decided to Go Get Pregnant.” I was listening to my local NPR affiliate, WAMU, driving to the doctor’s office the day Kojo Nnamdi hosted Dan on his book tour. I got pregnant, devoured the memoir and have looked forward to this chat with my favorite sex guru ever since. This interview with Dan Savage was published January 1, 2016 in The Gay & Lesbian Review edited by Richard Schneider. The issue explores “the future of gay” and also contains a review of the book I edited, Romaine Brooks: A Life by Cassandra Langer.
DAN SAVAGE has been a fixture of LGBT culture and politics for over two decades—as journalist, author, media pundit, and founder of the sex advice column “Savage Love,” which is syndicated in several dozen U.S. newspapers. His media work includes recurring appearances on HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher, The Colbert Report, CNN’s Anderson Cooper 360, and various gigs on MSNBC, among many others.
Savage’s most recent project to gain worldwide renown was the “It Gets Better” campaign, which targets LGBT youths who face bullying or isolation and may be at risk of suicide. The campaign generated a vast number of videos affirming gay lives, many from celebrities and many more that went viral. His more recent books include The Commitment: Love, Sex, Marriage, and My Family (2005) and a collection of essays titled American Savage: Insights, Slights, and Flights on Faith, Sex, Love, and Politics (2014).
Something readers may not know is that Savage was part of a satirical theater group in Seattle starting in the ’90s. His interest in guerilla theater has made several appearances since, notably: his contest to redefine the word “santorum” in a way befitting the “man on dog” former senator; closely covering the Bruce Bauer campaign and even trying to give the candidate the flu; and his annual Hump Pornography festival, which features short video clips from
contestants.
Born and raised in Chicago, now a resident of Seattle, Savage married his partner Terry Miller in Canada in 2005 and in Washington in 2012, one of the first gay couples to do so in that state. He and Miller have an adopted son named D.J., who’s the title character in Savage’s 2000 memoir The Kid.
This interview was conducted by telephone in early November.
Suzanne Stroh is lead researcher for book about multigenerational success in family business Here’s a review in The New York Times of my handsome new book, Family Spirit. It grew out of the year-long research project I worked on with John Davis and Florence Tsai of Cambridge Institute for Family Enterprise in partnership with the
April is said to be the cruellest month. And so it was for Renée Vivien in 1909.
In honor of Natalie Clifford Barney (1876-1972) Author | Poet | Patron of the arts Born on this day 137 years ago Many happy returns!
My screenplay’s in the news. Or rather, its main theme is. One of my favorite journalists, Sarah Lyall of The New York Times, published an interesting piece today on primogeniture in Britain. Here’s the link to her article,“Son and Heir? In Britain, Daughters Cry No Fair.” She leads in with DOWNTON ABBEY, but she could just
My story “Quiet Enjoyment” will soon be published in Defying Gravity by Paycock Press.
April 30, 1909: a daughter of France was coming over. Miss Barney gathered the plover’s eggs and put the Château Yquem on ice, betting on another comet year.
What are you reading this spring? I’ve always got a few books going at any given time, including this one.
