Lethe's gay titles include an array of
gay-positive novels, poetry,
erotica and literature for gay men & lesbians. In addition, Lethe
has partnered with the White Crane Institute
to bring out new and classic titles in gay spirituality and gay wisdom
under the White Crane Books imprint. Lethe is one of the world's
leading publishers of gay and lesbian spirituality, poetry, and
independent fiction. Below is a list of Lethe Press's books of gay
interest.
LETHE PRESS CONGRATULATES CATHERINE
LUNDOFF FOR HER
GOLDIE WIN
Crave won a Golden Crown Literary Award
for Lesbian Erotica!
Crave: Tales
of
Lust,
Love &
Longing By Catherine Lundoff
Catherine Lundoff is one of the most imaginative
writers
working
today. Her daydreams have been published in many anthologies. Her
stories combine passion with the weirdness of speculative fiction.
In Crave,
Catherine
has collected fifteen of her most recent
tales.
From the howls of lycanthropic desire offered by the "Leader of the
Pack" to lust and larceny in "Heart's Thief," these stories will
bewitch and entice women.
Here's Catherine at the Goldie Awards with her book and her award for
Lesbian Erotica.
Lethe Press Paperback,
168 pages
ISBN 1590219003
$13.00
San Francisco has never been moire romantic or
adventuresome as portrayed by this debut novelist. A bit of magic and a
lot of local lore makes for an exciting and fun read.
In a small town, a lonely teen walking along a highway one autumn
evening meets the boy of his dreams, a boy who happens to have died
decades ago and haunts the road. Awkward crushes, both bitter and
sweet, lead him to face not only the ghost but youthful dreams and
childish fears. With its cast of offbeat friends, antiques and Ouija
boards, Vintage offers readers a memorable blend of dark humor, chills
and love that is not your typical teen romance.
Lethe Press
Paperback
204 pages
ISBN-13 978-1-59021-053-6
$13.00 Buy
from Giovanni's Room
the gay & lesbian community
bookstore in Philadelphia
Also in Library Binding
ISBN-13 978-1-59021-130-4
$18.00
Wilde
Stories 2008
edited by Steve Berman
Wilde Stories is a new
annual anthology that offers readers the best of the prior year's
speculative fiction with gay characters and themes. Editor Steve
Berman, who has been a finalist for both the Lambda Literary and Andre
Norton Award, has collected an engaging selection of the fantastical,
the strange, the scary from such notable authors as Victor J. Banis,
Jameson Currier, Hal Duncan and Lee Thomas.
GREAT
review with interesting comments by Amos Lassen at eurekapride.com
Especially the erotic short stories of Vincent Diamond, sparkling with
cut, color, and clarity. Here are sensual encounters between real men
that will leave readers feverish to turn the next page.
Lethe Press Paperback,
280 pages
ISBN 159021109X
$18.00
Trysts A Triskaidecollection Of
Queer
And Weird Stories By Steve Berman
Steve Berman has assembled his most compelling stories
of
trysts
that range from the eerie to the horrifying to the wondrous. Cut and
paste a voodoo doll made of magazine clippings: watch as a ouija board
spells out your deepest secret...mourn the loss of your boyfriend while
awaiting his ghost... listen to the ancient whisperings of a threadbare
flapper dress...gamble for more than money on a Southern
riverboat...renounce your citizenship to walk through a restricted
area, rife with magic. Experience passion and loss, all within the
pages of
this triskaide collection - thirteen stories where the supernatural is
as likely to doom as to save those that are drawn to its power. Trysts
offers readers dark and quirky tales from a distinctive new voice in
gay fiction.
Periphery Lesbian
Erotic Futures Edited
by Lynne Jamneck
Periphery
brings together a diverse blend of speculative writers to offer readers
stories that delve deep into aspects of attraction and infatuation in
futures both far and near. Editor Lynne Jamneck has assembled thirteen
stories that are cutting edge in desire and style.
Haunted Hearths & Sapphic Shades
offers readers seventeen original lesbian ghost stories that stories
that range from eerie tales of lost love to the darker side of romantic
committments, relationships that linger longer than the grave.
Lethe Press Paperback,
268 pages
ISBN 978-1-59021-162-5
$18.00
Can
San Francisco survive a marauding gang of Vespa-riding vampires? Before
it's sucked dry, the city's only hope may be Valentino, who's only a
trainee for the supernatural law enforcement agency, Le Counseil
Carmin. Swept up in the whole blood-sucking business when his mentor
goes missing, Valentino is called upon to deal with the menace of these
"Bloody Marys." But Valentino soon realizes that, in order to dispose
of the gang, he must go into areas he never dreamed of, deal with some
very strange characters and learn the truth about the dark side of
town.
The Very Bloody Marys is a comic horror novel about
vampires, ghouls, faeries, and the undead that move around after dark.
Part chase, part gallows humor, and all shivery excitement, this new
story from the wildly imaginative M. Christian is funny, frightening,
and very entertaining.
An intriguing look into current-day religious life…
The story of a young Catholic teaching brother realizing the true
meaning of serving others and living life, Seventy Times Seven is
readable and entertaining, with just the right twists and turns to keep
the reader engrossed.
Hard Road, Easy Riding Lesbian
Biker Stories Edited
by Sacchi Green & Rekelle Valencia
Take a ride—on the wild side.
Sex should be intense, joyful, and
liberating—exactly as
written in these edgy and uninhibited stories. While there are many
anthologies of lesbian erotica available, none so far have focused on
the interaction between the lifestyles and sexual adventures of lesbian
bikers. What’s sexier than a hot woman, clad in form-fitting leather,
fiercely in control of the Iron Horse between her legs?
Lethe
Press Paperback,
216 pages
ISBN 978-1-59021-068-0
$15.00
Getting Life in Perspective A Fastastical
Romance By Toby Johnson
Sweet, sexy, wise and thoroughly entertaining, this mytho-historical
novel, featuring two lovable apparitions from the late 1800s America,
interweaves a heart-warming storey of youthful romance and adventure
with an ageless life-affirming and gay-positive spiritual message
...along with just a touch of the Twilight Zone.
A collection of essays by the English socialist
poet,
anthologist and early homosexual activist. The book is an attempt to
make an objective comparison between the origins and practices of pagan
religions and christianity.
Lethe Press
Paperback,
320 pages
ISBN 1590210077
$19.95
The author of the perennially popular and life-changing
book, Loving
Someone Gay, recounts his own life journey from shame, failure,
guilt
and fear to pride, self-confidence and understanding of true feelings.
Sharing how he made the transformation himself, the first officially
openly gay psychologist in the U.S. and "father of gay-oriented
psychotherapy" points the way for others to claim gay identity and gay
pride and follow him to happiness, meaning, love and success.
Lethe Press Paperback,
360 pages
ISBN 1590210670
$18.00
This
wonderful first collection of performance poetry is sure to make
readers laugh and smirk. Discover why Books to Watch Out For writes:
ñFox comes out of the world of performance poetry, where
heÍs something
of a star. Could be why the poems -- as punchy as prose -- in this
first
collection sizzle with the heat and ripple with the wit of good stories
-- short on plot, of course, and character development, but packed with
passionate introspection about and investigation of queer life, queer
sex, and queer essence."
Lethe Press Paperback,
120 pgs
ISBN 1590210190
$10.00
The winner of a Lambda Literary Award for Gay Men's
Science
Fiction
and bestselling novel, Secret Matter
returns to print in a revised
edition for the 21st century. With an afterword by gay theologian,
social commentator Mark Jordan.
Kevin Anderson is moving along through his life,
finishing up
college, and getting ready to leave New York for an internship
rebuilding San Francisco after an immense earthquake. Then the Visitors
arrive; a race of human-like aliens touch down in several cities around
the globe, including SF, and nothing will ever be the same. When
Kevin's company is given a contract to build a facility for the
Visitors, he forms a friendship with ïBel, one of their number.
But is
'Bel so alien after all? They seem so human, but they possess some odd
characteristics and seem to be hiding something. What secrets do they
carry, and where, exactly, are they from?
Crave: Tales of
Lust,
Love &
Longing By Catherine Lundoff
Catherine Lundoff is one of the most imaginative
writers
working
today. Her daydreams have been published in many anthologies. Her
stories combine passion with the weirdness of speculative fiction.
In Crave,
Catherine
has collected fifteen of her most recent
tales.
From the howls of lycanthropic desire offered by the "Leader of the
Pack" to lust and larceny in "Heart's Thief," these stories will
bewitch and entice women.
Lethe Press Paperback,
168 pages
ISBN 1590219003
$13.00
"Jay
Michaelson knows too well that our life is a wedding and a funeral, at
the same time, in any given moment. The erotic on these pages comes
hand in hand with the devotional."
- Ilya Kaminsky, author of Dancing in Odessa
" If you are comfortable in your pew, these may not be the poems for
you. But if you want fully embodied poems of outrage and love -- and if
you want to "make a religion of flaw," read Another Word for Sky.
You wonÍt regret it."
- Richard Chess, author of Third Temple
Jay Michaelson is the executive director of Nehirim: GLBT Jewish
Culture and Spirituality, and a leading figure in the gay spirituality
movement. Visitors to Easton Mountain, Burning Man, Body Electric, and
many other places have thrilled to his ecstatic, erotic performances of
visionary queer mystical poetry -- and now his first book of poems is
out from Lethe Press. At times reflective, at times outrageous, Another
Word for Sky stakes Michaelson's claim to be the James Broughton,
even the Allen Ginsberg, of his generation.
Two Spirits: A Story of Life With the Navajo By Walter L.
Williams
& Toby Johnson
Twenty years after publishing his
ground-breaking The
Spirit and the
Flesh, anthropologist Walter L. Williams breaks his silence and writes
another book on Native Americans. Together with award-winning writer
Toby Johnson, he has produced a work of historical fiction striking in
its evocation of Navajo philosophy and spirituality. Set in the Civil
War era of the 1860s, this novel tells the story of a young Virginian
who finds himself captivated by a Navajo Two-Spirit male. This book
illuminates the truth of what the United States did to the largest
indigenous people of this nation. A novel full of suspense, plot
twists, and endearing romance.
When first they meet, Neil and Zach
discovered a sexual and emotional chemistry that could not be denied.
Then, as mental illness consumes one, each must grow, repair himself,
and work to become stronger and more independent to ultimately conquer
the life-crushing consequences wrought by mental illness and emotional
dependency. Chemistry is the story of attraction between lovers, the
brain chemistry that determines personality and mood, the medications
needed for regaining mental health, and the relationships between
people who care for one another. DeSimone debut is an enthralling novel
of courage, liberation, and self-realization.
Readers of Lethe Press
titles
will also find books by Circlet Press of interest
Circlet Press, Inc.
Celebrating the Erotic Imagination www.circlet.com
White Crane Books
White Crane Books is an imprint of
Lethe Press, affiliated with the
White Crane Institute, a nonprofit organization which promotes the
study of the role of gay men, queer sexualities and gender variation
and orientation in the evolution, psychology, sociology, and practice
of spirituality, ritual, and religion.
The White Crane Institute's goal, and the purpose of White Crane Books,
is to foster the gathering and dissemination of information about the
critical role sexuality and gender has played and continues to play in
the development of cultural, spiritual and religious traditions and to
provide a nurturing environment for the continuation and expansion of
those explorations for the greater good of all society.
The Beautiful Tendons
Uncollected Queer Poems 1969-2007 By Jeffery Beam
The Beautiful Tendons is a collection of more than
three decades of lyrical, metaphysical work. James Broughton called
Beam’s poetry “sensual epiphanies, lightning flashes of the dramatic
heart of event, memories from the crux of dream.”
White Crane Books Trade Paperback
328 pages
ISBN 1590210409
$14.95
A
Prophet In His Own Land A Malcolm Boyd Reader
Edited by Bo Young and Dan Vera
For over sixty years,
Malcolm Boyd has written truthfully about his own
journey to fullness. From theologian to civil rights pioneer to
coffee house troubadour to gay rights icon, Boyd has courageously and
whole-heartedly shown the way to a deeper, more honest examination of
all our lives, leading by example. Bo Young and Dan Vera interview
Malcolm and his partner Mark Thompson about their years together. Many
of Boyd's previously unavailable articles are reprinted here.
White Crane Books Hardcover,
328 pages
ISBN 1590210115
$30.00
White Crane Books is proud to re-release Boyd's classic spiritual
biography and coming out story, Take
Off the Masks, for a new
generation of readers hungry for its insight, honesty and soulful
perception. With a new introduction by BoydÍs life
partner, Mark
Thompson, and a newly added postscript by Rev. Canon Boyd himself.
White Crane Books Paperback,
160 pages
ISBN 1590210654
$20.00
ALL: A James
Broughton
Reader Edited by Jack Foley
In a life that stretched from 1913 to 1999 James
Broughton
witnessed
and commented on the twentieth century from the point of view of an
outsider. In a time aghast at its own horrors, Broughton championed
laughter. He was a poet, not of the ivory tower but of the innovative
street, a playful, urban voice with the notion that a poet could change
the world. In a rational century, he asserted mystery. All: A James
Broughton Reader collects the range of this acclaimed poet and
filmmaker.
White Crane Books Paperback,
272 pages
ISBN 1590210212
$20.00
Charmed
Lives: Gay Spirit in
Storytelling Edited by Toby Johnson
&
Steve Berman
Storytelling
can be a way of spinning straw into gold, of showing ourselves we have
drawn a long straw in this life. Charmed
Lives offers readers a
collection of fiction and personal essays as an alternative to the
stories that society often tells about gay men. Some are whimsical with
a touch of enchantment, some profoundly spiritual, others romantic--all
offer insight into modern gay life that will inspire and shed light on
the grace of being gay with tales of hope against adversity and love
over loneliness.
In this Lambda Literary award-winning
title,
Toby
Johnson explores how
the rise of gay identity has become an important part of contemporary
religious development. This dramatic transformation has resulted due to
the perspective of gay men with their ability to step outside the
assumptions and conventions of culture and see things from a different
point of view. This book will reward readers seeking new insight into
faith as well as culture, myth and traditions.
JohnsonÍs
vision of a life-affirming, sex-positive spirituality of love,
cooperation, mutual respect and acceptance is in sync with modern
scientific knowledge, and does not ask the reader to suspend logic or
critical thinking. Gay Christians who are struggling with their sexual
orientation will especially appreciate JohnsonÍs convincing
refutation
of common ñbiblical" anti-gay arguments. A powerful book for
personal
change and a great gift to a gay friend who is unhappy with his life or
suffering from low self-esteem.
A classic of gay mythopoesis. Michael Bails (Seattle WA)
writing an
unsolicited review on the amazon.com site says: "I was recommended this
book after having taken a Body Electric workshop a few weeks before.
From the first page I began to re-live the entire bonding rituals that
we had experienced over that weekend. How to connect, how to
communicate, and how to intimately bond on a higher plane! ... A
definite "must have" book for the gay tribe who would like to interact
spiritually and emotionally!"
White Crane Books Paperback,
168 pgs
ISBN 1590210239
$15.00
Arguably the book that started the Gay Spirituality
Movement.
Publishers Weekly wrote: Cultural editor of the Advocate, Thompson here
collects previously published articles and book excerpts from the
magazine, each an attempt to define the status of gay men. In an
introduction he distinguishes between homosexual (a form of sexuality)
and gay: "A social identity and consciousness actively chosen." The
text discusses the gay's role in politics, religion, culture, identity.
Among the contributors are Judy Grahn, author of lesbian/feminist
works; Malcolm Boyd, activist Episcopal priest; Harry Hay, a founder of
the Mattachine Society; writer William S. Burroughs; and Geoff Mains's
presenting an approving, detailed description of sadomasochism.
White Crane Books Paperback,
352 pgs,
ISBN 1590210247
$19.95
