Category: Literature & Poetry

Pride Month: Boyd McDonald

Pride Month: Boyd McDonald

Recently rereleased by Semiotext(e), Cruising the Movies, is an acerbic, queer-eye take on the greats and the not-so-greats of Hollywood’s Golden Age. Written by Boyd McDonald from a single room occupancy in gritty 1980s New York, the book takes no prisoners in its reviews of famous films from a bygone era. Some of McDonald’s targets include the Reagans, Steve McQueen, and Gary Cooper, throwing shady before it was even a thing. Cruising the Movies with its quick wit and DIY aesthetic reads as a sort of punk-poetry for the then underground gay scene. In our concluding Pride Month installment, William E. Jones, who wrote the introduction to his book, reflects on Boyd McDonald’s importance to a culture that is vastly underrepresented in history.

National Bird Day: Aaaaw to Zzzzzd

National Bird Day: Aaaaw to Zzzzzd

In honor of National Bird Day, enjoy an excerpt from John Bevis’s Aaaaw to Zzzzzd: The Words of Birds. In this passage he answers the question, “What’s so special about birds?”