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September:

Outwords Men's Book Club
Monday, September 13th 7:00pm:

Please feel welcome to join the Outwords Men's Book Club on Monday, September 13th. The group will discuss Two People, the classic love story by David Windham.

"Two People" is about a love affair in Rome between a middle-aged American and a much younger Italian, but the word "people" in the title is both singular and plural, dealing with two cultures as well as with two individuals. First published in 1965, when the word "gay" in its sexual implications was little used or even recognized by heterosexuals, "Two People" anticipated many novels about same-sex relationships that followed. Neglected for over forty years, this moving novel has now been republished in a more tolerant climate. But Windham's gentle story was forgotten, in part because of the propriety of its manner and in part because it is as much a meditation on love and friendship as it is a recounting of the affair between Forrest and Marcello. "Love's power is that it lets you exist outside your own body," Windham observes through Forrest.

The Lesbian Reading @ Outwords Books
Tuesday, September 14 7:00pm:

The Lesbian Reading Group @ Outwords Books will meet on Tuesday, September 14. The book for discussion is Club 1049 by Kim Pritekel.

Flight 1049 from New York to Milan, Italy experiences mechanical and guidance failure, and goes down in the Atlantic. Six passengers survive and find themselves on an uncharted island. They survive the crash but now must learn to survive the harshness of the island and the differing personalities of the others. The family and friends of those lost on Flight 1049 come together for support, forming the 1049 Club - a help for those left behind who have lost parents and family. The 1049 Club also continues the search after the authorities have given up. Can those on the island find new families and loved ones amongst their fellow survivors? Can those left behind find new life, new loves and continue of in spite of the void made by the loss of their loved ones?

October:

Outwords Men's Book Club
Monday, October 11 7:00pm:

In October, Justin Spring's insightful biography of sexual renegade Samuel Steward, Secret Historian, will be discussed by the Outwords Men's Book Club.

Life in the closet proves boisterous indeed in this biography of an iconic figure of the pre-Stonewall gay demimonde. Steward (1909–1993) was an English professor, a novelist who wrote both well-received literary fiction and gay porn, a confidant of Gertrude Stein and Thornton Wilder, a furtive but exuberant erotic adventurer whose taste for sailors, rough trade, and violent sadomasochism endeared him to sex researcher Alfred Kinsey; later in life, he became Phil Sparrow, official tattoo artist of the Oakland, Calif., Hell's Angels. Spring (Paul Cadmus) fleshes out this colorful story by quoting copiously from his subject's highly literate journals and sex diaries—his Stud File contained entries on trysts with everyone from Rudolph Valentino to Rock Hudson—which afford an unabashed account of Steward's erotic picaresque and the yearnings that drove it.

The Lesbian Reading @ Outwords Books
Tuesday, October 12 7:00pm:

Please join the Lesbian Reading Group @ Outwords Books in October for a discussion of a fabulous new novel to be announced shortly..

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