books of Bear interest


Lethe's gay titles include an array of gay-positive novels, poetry, erotica and literature for gay men & lesbians. Lethe's new imprint, Bear Bones Books, will offer fiction and non-fiction titles about Gay Men's Bear Identity. 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 interest to Bears.


Bear Bones Books catalogue, Summer 2011
a printed catalogue of Bear Bones Books titles is available
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A digital version is available free.



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Bear Books editor, Ron Suresha has a new book of photographs,
 FUR: THE LOVE OF HAIR
from German publisher Bruno Gmünder,
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Bear Bones Books

Bear Bone Books is an imprint of Lethe Press, featuring books about gay rural life and/or books about Bear Identity. Ron Suresha is editor of Bear Bones Books

for more about Bear Bones Books, visit:

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 BearCity: The Novel


by Lawrence Ferber

Romance Can Be Hairy!

BearCity: The Novel, based on the award-winning feature-length movie, follows the funny, romantic, and often dramatic adventures of a tight-knit pack of bears, cubs, and friends in New York City as they gear up for a big party weekend. A hirsute Sex and the City set in the City’s gay men’s “Bear” scene, the BearCity story brings together these men, their friends, tricks, and lovers, and a cast of colorful, hirsute characters. They experience comical mishaps, lusty and romantic encounters, and an impressive variety of male body types. Using satire and humor, the novel explores these men’s self-image issues and pokes fun at aspects of urban gay male lifestyles, all while celebrating the worldwide community of men who call themselves Bears.

BearCity: The Novel is an urbane, sexy story that will tickle your furry bone and touch your heart—and includes a special section of furbulous behind-the-scenes photographs chosen by the author and director.

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Lethe Press
190 pages, 46000 words
6x9 trade paperback
978-1-59021-323-0
1-59021-323-8
eISBN 978-1-59021-154-0

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Night Duty and Other Stories

by Nicolas Mann

All men hold secrets. It’s part of their nature. The mystery of a man, like his musky, masculine scent, is discovered only when he meets naked with another man.

The janitor in the college bathrooms late at night and the professor he meets there. The grizzled mountain men in the Old West sharing a bathtub in a hotel room. The neighbor kid’s Dad in his underwear, drinking and watching videos in the basement. The thickset, gray-bearded homeless daddybear in the alley behind the house. The shadowy priest confronting the young man confessing his sins. The burly innkeeper at a mysterious rustic country retreat.

By day, these men daily mask their innermost desires. Yet it is inevitable that, in the course of their nighttime duties, these men of hair and bone will reveal the hidden secrets thumping in their hearts and pulsing in their pants, to another man who will fulfill those hidden fantasies.

In Night Duty, Nicolas Mann shares his erotic fiction and artwork featuring masculine, hairy men and the other sexy guys whom they lust after, and who love them in return—including drawings created especially for this book.

This unique collection of bearotic fiction and art will amuse and arouse anyone who enjoys the intimate company of masculine men.

The digital versions available here are FULLY ILLUSTRATED.
(Kindle and Smashwords.com versions are not illustrated.)

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Bear Bones Books, an imprint of Lethe Press
198 pages, 56000 words
6x9 trade paperback
978-1-59021-263-9
1-59021-263-0
eISBN 978-1-59021-455-8

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Waking Up Bear, and Other Stories

by Jay Neal

Waking Up Bear, and Other Stories is a sexy, fun, often touching collection of Bear-themed short fiction by Jay Neal, with twenty captivating stories from periodicals such as American Bear and 100% Beef and several Lambda Literary Award-winning anthologies, plus three previously unpublished stories.

Contents: Blade ~ Time Out ~ A Returning Appetite ~ Cub Makes Headlines! ~ Old Haunts ~ Confessions of a Failed Pervert ~ Physical Therapy ~ Sapphire ~ Sun, Sand, & Max ~ A Bedtime Story ~ Undercover Bears ~ The Old Block ~ Tom Selleck’s Mustache ~ Artful Fur ~ The Lighthouse Keep ~ My Mountain Man ~ Bears Write Bare ~ The Café Françoise ~ Waking Up Bear ~ My Best Friend, Frank

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Bear Bones Books
236 pages
6x9 trade paperback
978-1-59021-356-8
1-59021-356-4
e-isbn 978-1-59021-431-2

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Desire and Devour: Stories of Blood and Sweat

by Jeff Mann

Desire.
The longing for the touch of men. The edge of hunger. The need for supplicants craving a sweaty embrace, a passionate tryst in the dark.

Devour.
To drink, to dispatch, to swallow. To quench one's unimaginable thirst. To leave an empty vessel behind as one walks away into the night.

More than a hundred and fifty years before Dracula ever touched English soil, Scottish Highlander Derek Maclaine became one of the undead to bring a terrible vengeance on those who had taken the man he loved. But revenge could not sate his appetites for sweat and blood through the years; an immortal learns to survive, to love again, as the lives of mortals are bright and brief flames that attract vampires like amorous moths.

Award-winning author Jeff Mann has collected his erotic and powerful stories of Derek's unlife, adventures that travel centuries and the globe. Loosen your collar, bare your throat, sigh in expectation, but do not forget to shiver as this burly and brawny stalker of men steps behind you, to brush his beard against your neck as his hands grasp you where you most need to be touched.

"Whether he’s writing poetry, erotic short stories, or novels, Jeff Mann brings a fluency to the form at hand and a dose of man-to-man electricity generated by shifting power dynamics."
—Kilian Melloy for EDGE

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High Praise from Nathan Burgoine at amazon.com

Out in Print: Queer Reviews

Rainbow Award
Best Gay Erotica




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Bear Bones Books
202 pages, 69000 words
6x9 trade paperback
978-1-59021-393-3
1-59021-393-9

 eISBN 978-1-59021-430-5

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Purgatory: A Novel of the Civil War

by Jeff Mann


During the Civil War, two young soldiers on opposite sides find themselves drawn together. One is a scholarly, war-weary Southerner who has seen too much bloodshed, especially the tortures inflicted upon the enemy by his vicious commanding officer, his uncle. The other is a Herculean Yankee captured by the ragtag Confederate band and forced to become a martyr for all the sins of General Sheridan’s fires. When these two find themselves admiring more than one another’s spirit and demeanor, when passions erupt between captor and captive, will this new romance survive the arduous trek to Purgatory Mountain?

“Mann effectively weaves into his narrative the hunger, lice, battle scars, and hardening of men who live through war, and the captive/captor relationship offers nuance and complexity.”
Publishers Weekly

“From the first page, Purgatory grabs you by the heart and won’t let go. Scary, touching, visceral. It’s a journey through war and love you won't easily forget.”
—Erastes, author of Mere Mortals

“The bonds of war are most vivid in Jeff Mann’s powerful Purgatory as Reb and Yank suffer more personal skirmishes than large scale battles. Mann’s powerful and evocative prose gives us the exhausted courage of the Civil War’s late stages while descending into the brutality man imposes on his fellow man. The two soldiers manage to build a tender relationship amid the carnage, even as their ultimate engagement is built upon a brutality at times rejected, at times embraced.”
—Dale Chase, author of The Company He Keeps


Honorable Mention in the Gay category of the
San Francisco Book Festival

rainbow awards
Best Gay Historical




An Out in Print Best Book of 2012

Good Review by Elliott Mackle

5 Stars from jessewave

Good comments from Richard Labonté

 "The Sexiest Man in Europe"  in the December 2011 Lambda Literary.

Read an Interview with Jeff Mann from Edge Boston


Very good 5-Star review at GLBT Bookshelf by Lichen Craig

Interview with Jeff Mann by Lichen Craig

Recommended by the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Round Table of the American Library Association; reviewed in GLBTRT Newsletter Fall 2012

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Bear Bones Books
286 pages, 99000 words
6x9trade paperback
978-1-59021-375-9
1-59021-375-0 eISBN 978-1-59021-403-9 / 1-59021-403-X

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Tales from the Den: Wild and Weird Stories for Bears

R. Jackson, ed.

“Lions, and tigers, and bears, oh my!”

You’re not afraid of wild and weird things that go Woof in the night, are you.

Enter the Den, where this frightfully stimulating collection of fifteen hot and hairy stories—written by and for the masculine men who call themselves bears, cubs, wolves, otters, and the critters who love them—will be sure to give you a chill up your spine and a thrill between your furry loins.

The erotomythic stories tell of bearish men who dare enter forbidden realms populated (and copulated) by mystical beings, supernatural creatures, fantastic spirits, netherworldly demons, and bizarre beasts—your typical Folsom Street Fair crowd.

This collection includes new stories from authors William Holden, Daniel M. Jaffe, Hank Edwards, ’Nathan Burgoine, Jay Starre, and Lee Thomas, and others; classic bear tales from Jay Neal, Jeff Mann, and Nicolas Mann; plus fabulous original short fiction by fresh talents in the bear writing community.

Tales from the Den may or may not grow hair on your palms, but it’s certain to raise fur on the back of your neck.


"a perfectly marvelous collection of bear-scares" -- Review in Out in Print
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Bear Bones Books, Lethe Press
256 pages, 85000 words
6x9trade paperback
978-1-59021-222-6
1-59021-222-3

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The House of Wolves: a novel

by Robert B. McDiarmid

Enveloped by the native spirits of the Pacific Northwest, Roy Wallace and David Moreau’s newfound relationship begins. David soon introduces Roy to the House of Wolves, a small intentional community of gay and bisexual men where honor, companionship, spirituality, erotic desire, and brotherhood guide their way. Having lost their visionary founder, the household has been faltering and losing faith in the dreams that brought them together. Energized by David’s new relationship with Roy, the group takes the final steps to grieve its past loss while striving for an extraordinary new future.

Each man living in the house embodies a totem from the spirit world, and has committed himself to finding a unique path in life. As the mystical rituals and traditions of Roy’s new chosen family are revealed, each character is forced to confront fears and break through personal limitations in order to embrace the extraordinary loving spirit that ultimately unites them in body, mind, and spirit in the House of Wolves.

The House of Wolves is a vivid amalgam of elements: body hair and beards, pipe smoke and man-musk, the landscape of the Pacific Northwest, the richness of Native American culture. Bob McDiarmid’s evocative novel beautifully intertwines the erotic, the romantic, and the spiritual, and it depicts homomasculinity at its best: lusty, strong, compassionate, and kind.”
—Jeff Mann, Lambda Literary Award-winner, A History of Barbed Wire.

Robert B. McDiarmid is a writer and activist who lives in Palo Alto, California. The House of Wolves is his first novel.



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Bear Bones Books -Lethe Press
238 pages, 77000 words
5.5x8.5 trade paperback
978-1-59021-209-7
1-59021-209-6

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Winner of the Pauline Reage Novel Award
of the National Leather Association: International


Fog: A Novel of Desire and Reprisal

by Jeff Mann

Outside an isolated cabin, winter fog caresses spruce trees. Inside, two men, lovers, have enacted a plan of revenge, kidnapping the handsome son of the man who wronged one of them. Al, the accomplice, has stalked Rob for weeks, and his infatuation for the young man has grown deeper than he ever anticipated. So much so that he finds himself drawn to protect Rob from the rage and vengeance burning away his partner Jay’s insides. Caring for their bound and gagged captive, with
each passing day Al finds his power over Rob a potent and irresistible aphrodisiac and his heart dangerously moved. But Jay has no intention of ever allowing the young man to escape.

“Jeff Mann’s
Fog is brutally sexy, crossing that liminal space where sensuality and cruelty meet and mingle over and over again. A breathtaking and deeply erotic tale of violence, lust and above all, a loving passion that makes you ache in sympathy. Simply fantastic.”
—J.C. Herneson, author of Spring of the Stag God


"Sex is violence and passion is pain in Mann’s relentlessly brutal – yet irrepressibly romantic – short novel.…Both shocking and sensual, this is an instant classic." — Richard Labonté, Book Marks

One of Richard Labonté's Ten Favorite Fiction Reads of 2011

The Indie Review: "Best in LGBTQ Literature for 2012" pick

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Bear Bones Books - Lethe Press
228 pages, 57000 words
5.5x8.5 trade paperback
978-1-59021-359-9
1-59021-359-9

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A History of Barbed Wire


by Jeff Mann
Introduction by Patrick Califia


Winner of the 2006 Lambda Literary Award

In intense, lyrical language, Jeff Mann’s short stories give us an array of tormented characters: adulterous lovers, a kidnapper and his handsome victim, the sadistic ghost of a Confederate soldier, a yearning forestry student, an eager masochist, and a hairy biker. These tales explore the sex and psychology of BDSM and of bear culture, and most are set in Mann's native Appalachia, an area often mythologized as a place where the wilderness within converges with the wilderness without.

“A History of Barbed Wire is a collection of ten short stories that crackle with subcutaneous sexual energy and a novella that delves straight into dark obsession on its opening pages…a satisfying combination of both brain and brawn whose Southern drawl is so seductive that readers will find it hard to resist and even harder to put down.”
—Christian Wright, Velvet Mafia


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Bear Bones Books - Lethe Press
266 pages, 90000 words
6x9trade paperback
978-1-59021-234-9
1-59021-234-7

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Bear Like Me: A Novel


by Jonathan Cohen


Fired from his job at Phag Magazine, Peter Mallory has to find a way to make a living…and get revenge! When his best friend suggests writing a book about the bear community—and using his new ursine look to go undercover at Phag—Peter is soon letting his body hair grow and practicing the fine art of flannel couture. When Peter’s sabotage campaign works only too well, he starts to run the risk of discovery. With an envious fellow bear set to unmask Peter as a fraud, and a relationship with an intriguing bear on the line, things are about to get very hairy!


“A fast-moving, hilarious story…Bear Like Me is a definite page-turner and a quick read to boot.  Moreover, Cohen’s novel, while fiction, is never-the-less fascinating in its spot-on depiction of the world culture of bears that make up a part of the larger gay community.”
—Jerry Flack, Independent Gay Writer

Podcast Interview with Jonathan Cohen by Ron Suresha on Bear Soup

WONDERFUL 5-star review at Rarely Dusty Books by Janna

Recommended by the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Round Table of the American Library Association; reviewed in GLBTRT Newsletter Fall 2012

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Bear Bones Books - Lethe Press
256 pages, 67500 words
5.5x8.5trade paperback
978-1-59021-349-0
1-59021-349-1

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Bear Lust

Hot and Hairy Fiction

ed. by R. Jackson

Does a bear read in the woods? You bet your sweet woof he does!

Bear Lust presents powerful stories of raw, hairy, beefy male love by authors Jeff Mann, Dale Chase, Daniel M. Jaffe, Simon Sheppard, Jay Neal, R.E. Neu, Jay Starre, Karl von Uhl, Thom Wolf, Furr, and other top homomasculine writers. Edited by R. Jackson, the sometimes amusing but always arousing fiction in Bear Lust reveals that the clan of the Bear cult has never been so hot!


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Lethe Press
216 pages, 79000 words
6x9 trade paperback
978-1-59021-122-9
1-59021-122-7

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Binding the God:
Ursine Essays from the Mountain South

by Jeff Mann

A much lauded essayist and poet, Jeff Mann writes of the passion and pain of being a Southern gentleman who happens to be invested in many worlds:  the hungers of gay Bear culture; the propensities of leather and bondage; the frustrations of academia; and the perspectives of an Appalachian who has traveled the world. In Binding the God, his second collection of essays, Mann offers readers another tour of his consciousness and experiences. This volume includes essays previously published in Arts and Letters, Second Person Queer, Callaloo, Now and Then, White Crane, Queer and Catholic, and other journals and anthologies.

Wonderful review in EDGE Atlanta:  "
These essays are full of humor, anecdote, political fury, and sexual frisson. They also contain a deep and melodic religious resonance. This burly leather bear poet brings word and flesh together in the most compassionate, if underserved, sense of untrammeled faith."
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Lethe Press
232 pages, 80000 words
5.5x8.5 trade paperback
978-1-59021-219-6
1-59021-219-3

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The Limits of Pleasure

by Daniel M. Jaffe

With great humor and sensitivity, writer Daniel M. Jaffe’s novel The Limits of Pleasure follows Dave Miller, a forty-year-old bearish gay man, living in Boston in an escalating skirmish to reconcile his Jewish and gay identities.

A year after the death of his Holocaust-surviving grandmother, Dave leaves Boston for Amsterdam, the home of Anne Frank, whom his Grandma revered. Dave, feeling undeserving to confront the suffering that Grandma endured in the concentration camps, cannot bring himself to visit Anne Frank’s house.

Angry at himself and the world, Dave repeatedly seeks out risky erotic trysts that mix sacred ritual with profane hedonism. Then he meets Alexander, a sexually reserved Dutchman of Indonesian heritage, who has identity conflicts of his own. The relationship shakes both men’s lives to their core.

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Lethe Press
210 pages
5.5x8.5 trade paperback
978-1-59021-196-0
1-59021-196-0

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Spring of the Stag God

by J.C. Herneson

Prepare your loins for tales of erotic adventure in the world of Khernia, in this first release of the Stag God Chronicles. "A Stag God is Born" - A sexual prisoner of his cruel uncle, young Ashlan befriends the man's prisoner, Imbru once a feared warrior of the Split Hoof orc tribe, called The Ravager of Men by by the humans, because he spent his seed only on men. Imbru knows the truth behind Ashlan's strange dreams of running through fields with an antlered brow. Ashlan doesn't understand the dreams or know he is about to inherit a divine mantle he never wanted--the legacy of the great antlered Stag God of the wild places. "The Stag & The Bear" - The young god suffering the pains of new divinity goes seeking a mentor, the great Bear God of the stormy mountain tops. Along the way, an orc hunter is forced to his knees to become Ashlan's new discipline. But approaching an old god is treacherous and his were-bear minions must be confronted and defeated before the Bear God's den is reached. "The Stag God's Disciple" - Habra of the Tines, a young orc, goes among humans to preach the worship of Ashlan. But the Patriachs of the human lands do not want to relinquish their power and bind, rape and imprison Habra. But in the dungeons new friends are waiting to be found as the faith in the Lord of the Seven Tines spreads like passion through a man's nethers.

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Lethe Press
174 pages
6 x 9 trade paperback
978-1-59021-316-2

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Bearotica: Hot & Hairy Fiction

edited by R. Jackson

This first volume in the Hot and Hairy series of outstanding erotic short fiction draws readers deep into the thickest forest of masculine desire to reveal at a hidden bonfire a long-hidden clan of gay, bi, and queer men from the Bear cult.

In Bearotica, you’ll meet: a mountain man who guides a young fellow through his initiation into male love as they cross over the American frontier; a couple of wayward bikers riding together down a dusty, lusty road; four massive musclebears using junkyard metal and their other tools to improvise weightlifting routines; two warriors, one a bear and one wolf, battle in an 8th-Century Norwegian lodge for sexual dominance; and many more unforgettable characters.

Edited by R. Jackson, Bearotica presents seventeen strong, arousing, compelling stories of homomasculine love by famed and favorite contributors such as Dale Chase, Daniel M. Jaffe, Jay Neal, R.E. Neu, Jay Starre, Karl von Uhl, and Thom Wolf, as well as new voices.

If you go out to the woods today, beware: reading these sometimes humorous, often insightful, but always sensual tales of macho men expressing their desires may grow fur on the palms of your paws — or at least, show you exactly what bears really do in the woods.

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Lethe Press
188 pages, 67500 words
6 x 9 trade paperback
978-1-59021-108-3
1-59021-108-1

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Bears in the Wild:
Hot & Hairy Fiction

edited by R. Jackson

Does a Bear read in the woods? You bet your sweet woof he does! Bears in the Wild, the third Bearotica collection of hot and hairy short fiction, draws readers deeper into the lush forest of masculine desire. These tales reveal at a mysterious bonfire a whole new tribe of lusty gay, bi, and queer male characters from the Bear cult, joyously playing and participating in their naked, natural rituals. Editor R. Jackson presents sixteen fresh, arousing, compelling stories of homomasculine love by famed and favorite contributors such as Simon Sheppard, Jeff Mann, Dale Chase, Jay Neal, and Jay Starre, as well as new voices. Reading these sometimes humorous, often insightful, but always sensual tales of burly, macho men sharing their fierce and furry love may grow hair on the palms of your paws or at least, show you what bears really do in the woods.

4 Star Review - with good summaries of the stories - on Rainbow Reviews



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Lethe Press
164 pages, 56000 words
6 x 9 trade paperback
978-1-59021-245-5
1590212452

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Bears on Bears:
Interviews & Discussions (Revised edition)
By Ron Suresha

Revealing, challenging, often humorous, Bears on Bears: Interviews & Discussions examines the homomasculine subculture called Bears.

In 30 wide-ranging interviews, these 62 gay and bisexual men expose their furrier side. They reveal their experiences as gay, bi, and trans Bears and Bear-lovers who find their physical image and personal lifestyle at odds with stereotypically ephebic, effeminate, fashion-obsessed gay male culture. Finding intimate affirmation within the increasingly international Bear brotherhood, they discuss coming-out as Bears and the early history of Bear subculture.

Contributors include comedian Bruce Vilanch, “Survivor” Richard Hatch, model Jack Radcliffe, and authors David Bergman, Michael Bronski, Jack Fritscher, Wayne Hoffman, Arnie Kantrowitz, Richard Labonté, Dr. Lawrence Mass, Eric Rofes, Mark Thompson, and Les K. Wright.

Acclaimed by Andrew Sullivan on Salon.com as “the invaluable book” on Bears, the revised edition of Bears on Bears features fresh interviews with filmmakers Kevin Bowe and Dan Hunt, radio personality Larry Flick, author Jonathan Cohen, and Metropolitan Community Church founder Rev. Troy Perry.

Bears on Bears confronts conventional images of male beauty and contemporary concepts of masculinity in a moving and colorful portrait of a men’s community that makes for fas
cinating reading on many levels.

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Bear Bones Book
328 pages
ISBN 1-59021-244-4
          978-1-59021-244-8


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Edge:
Travels of an Appalachian Leather Bear

By Jeff Mann

The autobiographical essays in Edge offer insight into the passions of acclaimed author Jeff Mann. These memories, insightful as they are endearing, range from his boyhood obsession with the gothic allure of Dark Shadows, to the doubt and pain of being a Southerner and so at the edge of the gay community, and the appeal of leather bars and bear culture.

Mann also visits many gay meccas in several of these essays—the resorts of Key West, Provincetown, and Rehoboth Beach, along with several European destinations such as Germany, Ireland, Belgium, and Scotland, have important cameos. But he is never an idle traveler—he is challenged by his experiences, and his observations reveal the thoughts of many gay men. Along the way Mann ruminates on a variety of subjects, from lost lovers to kilts, theophany, Sylvia Plath, adult videos, and bathhouses.


Wonderful and interesting review on Rainbow Reviews

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Jeff Mann's poem "The Sexiest Man in Europe" appears in the December 2011 Lambda Literary.



Bear Bones Book
208 pages

ISBN 1-59021-059-X
          978-1-59021-059-8


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Ron Suresha's choice picks of Bear titles from

Bear Bones Books
An imprint of Lethe Press


Bears in Heat: Hot Macho Fiction
edited by R. Jackson