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From Sovo.com:

One of the most popular gay authors of modern times, Armistead Maupin, is coming to the movies. His quirky, unsettling and best-selling 2000 novel “The Night Listener,” has been made into a film and will arrive in theaters on Aug. 4 courtesy of Miramax films.

Directed by Patrick Stettner, who partially wrote the screenplay along with Maupin and the author’s former partner Terry Anderson, the movie stars Robin Williams and Toni Collette in a Hitchcock-like rendition of the novel.

“I’ve always wanted to do a genre film,” says Stettner, who is straight. “[‘The Night Listener’] felt very organic and very suspenseful.”
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Check out the review of the book and other Armistead Maupin titles.

Posted on August 04, 2006 by Meghan at 08:53 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Do you like to receive or give recommendations for what to read? Join us to chat about a variety of novels. Find out about new fiction, genre trends, things you might have missed, and classics to revisit. Come share titles or authors you have read and enjoyed, or listen to find out what other people have been reading. Plenty of great books will also be available to take home.

When: Tuesday, June 20, 2006
Time: 7:00pm-8:30pm
Where: Anton Room 202
Cost: Free!

Registration is not required.

Please call (785) 580-4540 for information or email us here.

Posted on June 17, 2006 by Karen at 04:29 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Carolyn Parkhurst’s popular debut novel The Dogs of Babel was about a grieving man who tried to teach his dog to talk in order to solve the mystery of his wife’s death. This summer, Parkhurst delivers an astonishing new novel based on a reality television show – Lost and Found.

To play the game Lost and Found, each two-person team works on challenges to travel the globe on a scavenger hunt, collect specific Found Objects that they must continue to carry with them, and decipher cryptic clues to figure out where to go next. Parkhurst takes the familiar frame of the reality television experience and then populates her novel with characters that have compelling motivations for appearing on the show, plus the fears, foibles and secrets that will be intensified and exploited by the show’s producers.

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Posted on June 11, 2006 by Lissa at 07:38 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

From CNN.com:

NEW YORK (AP) -- Years after she first emerged from the Batcave, Batwoman is coming out of the closet.

DC Comics is resurrecting the classic comic book character as a lesbian, unveiling the new Batwoman in July as part of an ongoing weekly series that began this year. The 5-foot-10 superhero comes with flowing red hair, knee-high red boots with spiked heels, and a form-fitting black outfit.

"We decided to give her a different point of view," explained Dan DiDio, vice president and executive editor at DC. "We wanted to make her a more unique personality than others in the Bat-family. That's one of the reasons we went in this direction."
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Stop by the New Books area to check out this week’s Ticket to Read book display featuring Heroes and Villains!

 

Posted on June 01, 2006 by Meghan at 11:49 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Starting on Monday, May 1^st 2006, Ticket to Read (the Adult Summer Reading program) officially starts! We will be running the program all the way through August 31^st. Here’s how to participate:

Why bother filling out tickets? Did we not mention FABULOUS PRIZES? Yes! We will be giving away MP3 players in our grand prize drawing, perfect for downloading e-audio titles from Netlibrary and music from OverDrive. Get your ticket today!

Posted on May 01, 2006 by Meghan at 10:51 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Each year, Maine librarian Glenna Nowell's queries celebrities across the US for her annual "Who Reads What?" list.  National Library Week is April 2-8, 2006. Nowell started writing to celebrities in 1988 and has since heard from presidents, actors, athletes and a couple of United Nations secretaries general.

Read more about this year's list here.  What are celebrities reading in 2006?  Who else has participated in the "Who Reads What?" survey?  

Thanks to staffer Lissa for this entry!

Continue reading "Who Reads What? The Famous Club shares their current reading for National Library Week" »

Posted on April 02, 2006 by Karen at 02:00 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Can't wait for the movie?  Read the short story Brokeback Mountain by Annie Proulx which inspired the movie starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Heath Ledger.  Brokeback Mountain first appeared in the  October 13, 1997 issue of the New Yorker which the library currently has available. (We will hold your library card or photo ID at the periodicals desk while you are reading it.)

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Posted on December 15, 2005 by Shari at 11:11 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

The screenwriter who penned the script for the romantic comedy film Sweet Home Alabama explores a different culture clash in this humorous and heart-wrenching story of boy meets boy.

With stylish dark hair, a toned athletic body, mysterious brown eyes and clothes to highlight all his best features, Christian Markelli seems to have instant chemistry with almost every man he meets. Outside of playing basketball on the local court, working out at the gym, dancing at the L.A. clubs and meeting Hollywood types at the trendy restaurant where he works, Christian is mainly concerned with finding his next hookup and documenting his conquests on his handheld journal.

When Aaron Davis and three other young men move into an apartment next door, Christian is thrilled – until he realizes that the four young men are Mormon missionaries sent to Hollywood to spread the message of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. Aaron knows he likes men, but he hides that fact from his three loud, immature and unhygienic fellow missionaries. When he keeps bumping into Christian around the apartment complex, he can’t deny his attraction to the handsome hunk, but he resists the temptation because his religion forbids homosexuality.

Christian originally flirts with Aaron as part of a bet with his friends, who encourage Christian’s sexual prowess. As Christian and Aaron talk to each other, both begin to have doubts about what they believe in. While Christian accuses Aaron of being too committed to a religion that condemns his sexual orientation, Aaron accuses Christian of not believing in anything except his own vanity. Christian’s friends and Aaron’s family put pressure on the relationship as both men search for answers.

Reading this boy-next-door romantic comedy is like watching a movie, with a series of scenes that advance the story, some suspense to keep things interesting, and well drawn characters that will have the reader hoping for a happily-ever-after ending.

Reviewed by Lissa Staley

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Posted on February 24, 2005 by Meghan at 09:21 AM | Permalink | Comments (4)

Calliope Stephanides was no ordinary girl. In fact, she wasn’t really a girl at all. Born with ambiguous genitalia, Callie was raised as a girl until at the age of fourteen she realized that something was not right. For years her aged family doctor neglected to give her a proper physical, thus failing to notice the result of a condition called “5-alpha-reductase deficiency.”
This novel’s epic story begins in Greece with Calliope’s grandparents. Living in the village of Smyrna, their love story gets off to a rocky start. Being third cousins but also brother and sister, they had to fight their urges for the sake of decency. However, the Turks burned the village to the ground and Desdemona and Lefty manage to escape on a boat. With the chance to create new identities, they marry and invent a family history for themselves.
The story continues drawing out the new family history and tracing the gene that will eventually appear in Calliope. With a mix of Greek-American culture, family values of the 1920s-70s and the coming-of-age story of a girl to a man, this book hits all the notes from comedic to tragic. In essence, it upholds are the qualities of an ancient Greek play, but relies on modern story-telling to deliver a thesis on nature versus nurture.

Reviewed by Meghan Fryett

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Posted on December 22, 2004 by Meghan at 09:50 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Nazis! Jews! Lesbians! Spies! Lesbian spies! Art forgeries! Nera’s pulpish and erotically charged All that Glitters shifts locales from England to Berlin to Australia as London-based art dealer Marta Broderick goes in search of both art objects stolen by Nazis and the black hole of oblivion brought about by her out-of-the ordinary sexual encounters as she haunts the underground sex clubs of Europe by night and high-priced art galleries by day. Thrown into the mix is a female private investigator who is seduced by both Marta and the woman who hired her to tail Marta, and a middle-aged wife and mother, with whom Marta is having a “same time next year” affair, who leaves her husband for the aloof Marta. Which side of the art forgery world is Marta on? Will Marta ever settle down with one woman? And what about her mysterious East German past? Sapphire is a new press dedicated to publishing erotic fiction that serves as an antidote to the vanilla mediocrity churned out by the likes of Naiad Press. Relying heavily on plot, character development, decent writing, and inventive sex, All that Glitters, and anything else by this press, can best be labeled guilty pleasures for the thinking reader. All that Glitters is well-written, dirty, escapist trash; and I mean this as a compliment.

Reviewed by Tanya Walsh

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Posted on October 13, 2003 by Meghan at 02:06 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Tea’s narrative, part memoir, part fiction, is a post-punk grrl version of all the great bildungsromans and road novels. This is an On the Road or A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man for pierced, dyed, shaved, and tattooed lesbians reared on a diet of punk rock, mosh pits, cheap drugs and liquor, ‘zines, riot grrl, open mic nights, and radical sex. Set predominantly in San Francisco’s Mission and Castro districts (Valencia being one of the Mission’s main arteries), the narrator/author, Michelle, careens from one happening to another, recording her epiphanies, searching for love and transcendence, falling in and out of both, leaving behind a trail of latex gloves and rank cynicism.

Tea’s prose is lean and muscular, her epiphanies sparse and beautiful, providing the perfect space for the reader to make his/her own inferences. Valencia carries on in the tradition of the late Kathy Acker, but Tea’s prose is more accessible, forsaking the post-structural linguistic pyrotechnics Acker is notorious for. This would make a perfect companion piece to Acker’s final work, Pussy, King of the Pirates. Intimate and epic, scatological and sacred, Tea shares with us a cultural verite fueled by a soundtrack of Bikini Kill, P.J. Harvey, Tribe 8, and Ani Difranco. When she walks, the revolution’s coming – it’s in her hips – that’s revolution.

Reviewed by Tanya Walsh

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Posted on October 13, 2003 by Meghan at 10:02 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Mr. Rilke is laboring for Bowery Auctions in Glasgow. When he’s hired by Mrs. McKindless to organize and sell her recently deceased brother’s “collections” he wonders why she’s so emphatic. Most of the contents of the estate are rare and worth a lot to a small auction house like Bowery Auctions, but the attic is a different story entirely. The house is to be emptied in a week’s time: with the stipulation that Rilke is to personally and privately oversee vacating the attic room, including removal and incineration of all documents. Once there, Rilke discovers an exhaustive library of erotica, a medley of rare perverse items, and a few photographs featuring the possible torture and death of a young woman.

His search for verification of authenticity or falsity of the photos leads Rilke down a jeopardous path, from a fight with a junkie transvestite to a basement record shop selling crumbling vinyl and information, to Anne-Marie, who charges men for Polaroid snapshots of herself posing in and out of 50s garb. Will he destroy the collections, discover the identity of the young woman in the photos, or sell all to the highest bidder? Read this riveting thriller and find out for yourself.

Reviewed by Anne Pepper

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Posted on October 10, 2003 by Meghan at 09:40 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)