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	<title>The Atwood Anomaly: The acclaimed author comes to Lisner</title>
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Books: For the novice&#44; mention of Canadian author Margaret Atwood likely conjures thoughts of The Handmaid&#39;s Tale&#44; her 1985 novel of an America at war with itself&#44; with right&#45;wing Christians governing the Republic of Gilead with a sort of repression Pat Robertson could only dream of&#46; You might have to know her work a bit better to have read her response to police raids on gay bathhouses in Toronto decades ago&#58; &#34;What do the police have against cleanliness&#63;&#34; Somewhere between those poles are the fans of Oryx and Crake&#44; and its new sister novel&#44; The Year of the Flood&#46; As with Handmaid&#44; Atwood uses these novels to speculate on possible outcomes for our ever&#45;evolving society&#46; Breaking from both&#44; however&#44; Atwood is toying with something new for the release of The Year of the Flood&#46; &#34;There&#39;s never been anything quite like it&#46; It&#39;s an event&#46;&#34; ... (more)]]></description>
	<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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	<title>Bundle of Grief: Andrea Askowitz&#39;s &#39;Miserable&#44; Lonely Lesbian Pregnancy&#39;</title>
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Books: For the first few months of her pregnancy&#44; Andrea Askowitz didn&#39;t know what was wrong&#46; &#39;&#39;I just felt really anxious and angry and just not myself at all&#44;&#39;&#39; says the 40&#45;year&#45;old Miami resident and author of My Miserable&#44; Lonely Lesbian Pregnancy&#46; Andrea Askowitz &#39;&#39;Like my best friend wanted to come over&#46;&#46;&#46; and I was like&#44; &#39;God&#44; I cant be around you&#44; I have to fart&#44;&#39;&#39;&#39; she says with a laugh&#46; &#39;&#39;I just hated everybody and everything&#46;&#39;&#39;  ... (more)]]></description>
	<pubDate>Thu, 18 Sep 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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	<title>Jordan Airs: Actor and author Leslie Jordan joins Gay Men&#39;s Chorus of Washington&#39;s 2008 Spring Affair</title>
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Books: In the early 1990s&#44; long before taking on the role of Karen&#39;s sassy rival&#44; Beverley Leslie&#44; on Will and Grace&#44; or Brother Boy in Sordid Lives&#44; Emmy Award&#45;winning actor Leslie Jordan was reaching under his bed for inspiration among the hundreds of journals he&#39;s written since his youth in Chattanooga&#44; Tenn&#46; He was crafting his first one&#45;man show&#46; Leslie Jordan &#39;&#39;I keep them under my bed&#44; because I always thought when I was a kid that that&#39;s where the monsters were&#44;&#39;&#39; says Jordan&#46; &#39;&#39;So when the monsters would begin their moaning under my bed&#44; I would just write&#46; I sort of figured out that when I wrote on paper&#44; I got clarity&#46;&#39;&#39; The 53&#45;year&#45;old adds that&#44; as a recovering alcoholic and meth addict&#44; writing has proven therapeutic&#46; Jordan has used those journals &#45;&#45; which include stories about his journey to making it as an actor in Hollywood &#45;&#45; in his comedic one&#45;man shows and in compiling his new book&#44; My Trip Down the Pink Carpet&#44; which hits bookstores on June 3&#46;  ... (more)]]></description>
	<pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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	<title>Twisted Sister: Christopher Rice&#39;s new novel packs in so many twists and turns&#44; it ventures into the realm of unbelievability</title>
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Books: There are a lot of surprises in store for readers of Christopher Rice&#39;s new novel&#44; Blind Fall&#44; not the least of which is that it&#39;s quite engaging &#45;&#45; even if one aspect of that engagement is seeing if the next twist is going to completely break the binds of believability&#46; As a gay author&#44; the most obvious synopsis of Rice&#39;s book would be to say that it&#39;s about gays in the military&#44; since a gay Marine is central to the story&#46; This theme&#44; however&#44; is vastly overshadowed by the idea that karma is real and if you don&#39;t atone for your digressions&#44; you&#39;re going to pay&#46; Taking center stage in Blind Fall is John Houck&#44; an ex&#45;Marine who feels indebted to Mike Bowers&#44; a fellow Marine who saved his life in Iran&#46; John is a loner&#44; living in a trailer&#44; sleeping with random women &#40;yes&#44; John is straight&#41; and struggling to make sense of his life&#46; His relationships with those closest to him are in shambles &#45;&#45; his brother is dead by suicide&#44; he&#39;s estranged from his sister&#44; and Mike isn&#39;t returning his calls or letters&#46; So when another Marine whose life John saved shows up with information on the man whom John accused of raping his brother&#44; it seems like revenge is the only way to go&#46;  ... (more)]]></description>
	<pubDate>Thu, 20 Mar 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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	<title>Teen Tales: Alex Sanchez&#39;s sixth book&#44; &#39;The God Box&#39;</title>
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Books: Alex Sanchez&#44; the former metro Washingtonian who has made a name for himself writing a number of novels dealing with gay teens coming of age&#44; recently published his sixth book&#44; The God Box&#46; While the gay coming&#45;of&#45;age is still there&#44; The God Box explores faith to a greater deal than Sanchez has in the past&#46; That exploration may have come to a head during his recent U&#46;S&#46; book tour&#44; which included an invitation to speak at a Catholic high school in the San Francisco area&#46; &#39;&#39;It was awesome&#44;&#39;&#39; he says&#46; &#39;&#39;Regardless of whether you&#39;re gay or straight&#44; high school can be such a challenging time&#46; I was so confused about my own sexuality&#46; Now&#44; to go to a Catholic high school and see how much things have changed&#44; to be in a high school that says we want to be an inclusive environment&#44; I think back to what a difference that would&#39;ve made in my life&#46;&#39;&#39; Sanchez&#44; who left the D&#46;C&#46; area in 2004&#44; now spends part of his time in Florida with family&#44; and in Bangkok&#46; The Thailand connection was made after a gay Thai&#45;American couple there asked to publish one of Sanchez&#39;s novels in Thai&#46; He went over for a reading and fell in love with the country&#44; he says&#44; adding that the economics of living in Thailand allow him to spend his time writing&#44; rather than holding down a regular &#39;&#39;day job&#46;&#39;&#39; It&#39;s also provided this Catholic&#45;raised Latino American an opportunity to explore a new culture&#46;  ... (more)]]></description>
	<pubDate>Thu, 06 Dec 2007 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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