ISBN: 9780316458733
Editorial: Little
Año de edición: 2021
N° Paginas: 320
Tipo de pasta: Pasta dura
Descripción: Críticas "Jeremy Atherton Lin's intimate history of gay culture -- from the 18th century to today -- is electric, immersive, and impossible to look away from. . . . It's an illuminating, sexy, vibrant examination of place and identity." --ELECTRIC LITOne of the New York Times Critics' Top Books of 2021 New York Times Editors' Choice NPR's Best Books of 2021 Artforum's Best Books of 2021 Vogue's Best Books of 2021 Wall Street Journal's10 Best LGBTQ+ Books for Pride Month LitHub's Most Anticipated Books of 2021 Cosmopolitan's Best LGBTQI+ Books of 2021 Debutiful's Best Books of February Queerty's Best Holiday Reads"This deservedly award-winning, multifaceted book examines the role of the gay bar on both a micro and a macro level. Come for the history lesson, stay for the party."--WALL STREET JOURNAL"A work of genius. Smooth and ferocious; tumescent and pounding; sweet, awkward, occasionally shy. Phenomenological social history at its most fuckable."--Grace Lavery, author of PLEASE, MISS"A fond evocation of queer spaces that are sordid, deviant, and defiantly anti-mainstream--the bathhouses and club basements that are integral to queer history but rarely historicized in the traditional sense."--PITCHFORK"Filled with well-researched history, entertaining personal anecdotes, and a healthy dose of queer theory...a well-timed reminder of who we become when we're surrounded by our own people." --QUEERTY (Best Holiday Reads)"This book of creative nonfiction links theory, geography, and romantic memoir via the knowledge made available through the erotic...We peep the emergence of nonbinary gender identities as they come to be claimed, and behold the finitude of gay identity--itself a nineteenth-century construction--from inside the pissoirs and cabarets where it was conceived and continues to unravel... The essays' lyrical prose gives pleasure through the space it builds for paradox, deferring conclusions in much the same way one might desire to stay for one more song."--ARTFORUM (Best Books of 2021)"A vibrant and wistful report on a bygone era in gay culture."--KIRKUS, Starred Review"A book of rare dream-like power, an exacting anthropology of queer life. Brainy, audacious, funny, vulnerable, and sexy, Gay Bar is endlessly awake not just to codes and signs but to a culture that's changing faster than most of us are able to see." --PAUL LISICKY, author of LATER: My Life at the Edge of the World"Gay Bar is searching, erudite, and sexy. With verve and grace, it probes the past, present, and future of queer life while refusing easy binaries. Gay Bar is about pleasure, but deeply serious too. It is wonderful -- one of the best books I have read in ages."--KATHERINE ANGEL, author of UNMASTERED and DADDY ISSUES"[A] diamond of a book; its milky imperfections streak through the text like a hot load shot across a greedy, gorgeous face...Gay Bar elides categories, determined to queer gender and genre alike, smearing even this commonplace with a sweaty, gropey touch...Atherton Lin's thick description of this mélange works the magic of a Proustian madeleine. This is, in part, because he writes the way gay culture looks and feels: he is both evasive and effervescent...But Atherton Lin is after something more: the glam camp of undiluted faggotry. This is writing as drag, and it aims at times to be just as tawdry and exhibitionist." --THE BAFFLER"A detailed, frank and brilliantly personal account...Already, Gay Bar reads like a cult classic." --PAUL FLYNN, EVENING STANDARD"A grand, cross-continental adventure. . . . [Atherton Lin's] deep and vivid details bring his memories to life in a way that will make you feel like you are smack dab in the middle of those bars alongside him. His examination of these spaces from all sides will make you think about them in brand new ways." --ASSOCIATED PRESS"A refreshing glimpse into the sweaty glory of the humble queer haven we've missed in the last year...If you're looking for an honest and viscera
- Idioma: Inglés
- Autor: Lin, Jeremy Atherton
- Editorial: Little
- N° Paginas: 320
- Tipo de pasta: Pasta dura
- Envío: Desde EE.UU.
