In New Orleans, the dead are celebrated each year on All Soul’s Day, when families bring yellow chrysanthemums to cemeteries and white-wash tombstones. In Boston, it was the funeral, not the wedding, that was traditionally considered the greatest family event, and Boston Brahman families would plan them years in advance. In New York however, death… Read more »
My father yells ‘What you gonna do with your life?’ Oh daddy dear, you know you’re still number one But girls, they want to have fun Oh girls just want to have fun . . . Cyndi Lauper’s breakaway hit had a hook that never left you—it echoed through your brain until you couldn’t bear… Read more »
When I first started putting out books a little more than twenty years ago, Barnes and Noble was known in the business as “the Elephant.” The chain was the Elephant in the room—the big, not-quite-gentle threat that you could neither ignore nor play without. The old joke was that if the Elephant invited you to… Read more »
Genial TV-host Ronald Reagan became president in 1980, it was “morning again in America,” and the customer relationship took off at full blast. For many younger people, this particular relationship was like a breath of fresh air. It’s not like it had never been there before, but during the feel-good ’60s and the get-your-rock-‘n-rolls-off ’70s… Read more »
I know. It feels like you’ve been asleep for a long time now, and you keep asking yourself how things ended up this way. Everyone is trying to figure it out, with books and studies popping up faster than toadstools after a rainstorm. The one thing I’m really starting to notice, however, is a threatening… Read more »
AANY contributor Perry Brass has an upcoming show at St. Mark’s in the Bowery… Who: Downtown Music Productions What: The Restless Yearning Towards My Self Where: St. Marks in the Bowery Church, 131 East 10th St. at Second Ave. When: Sunday, March 18th at 3 PM Why: Because poetry, music, and dance still thrive in the East Village. The… Read more »
Poet, novelist, and gay activist, Perry Brass has published 15 books including the erotic classics Mirage, Angel Lust, and The Substance of God. Born in Savanah, Georgia, Perry has called New York his home since 1966. In 1969, Perry joined the Gay Liberation Front and became an editor of Come Out!, the world’s first gay liberation newspaper. Each month,… Read more »
