by itabix | Oct 13, 2020 | Uncategorized
My website, adrianabooks.com, has been brought up to date—text has been changed, a book, Earthrise, has been added, an image has been added, and the section About goes deeper into my life and my work. The whole thing points to our growing relationship with Lulu...
by itabix | Dec 21, 2018 | Uncategorized
Ruth Bader Ginsburg has come out of surgery where two small cancerous growths were removed from one lung. Katy Tur on MSNBC says she shared a flight last night with the Justice. Justice Ginsburg ordered a coffee and worked during the whole flight. Right now MSNBC is...
by itabix | Oct 11, 2018 | Uncategorized
This is a photo of my four books—Ceremonies, Winter Rain, Race Point Light, Adam in the Morning—which are now being published as printed by Lulu Books. See this. See the sequence of blog posts called Earthrise. They continue to be published as ebooks. This photo was...
by itabix | Aug 28, 2018 | Adam in the Morning, Anger, Earthrise, gay community, Gay literature, Stonewall Riots, Straight marriage, Uncategorized
Adam in the Morning At one in the morning, 28 June 1969, the New York policemen from the 6th Precinct, led by Deputy Inspector Seymour Pine, raided the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar, on Christopher Street in the West Village in New York. This was normal. The cops had...
by itabix | Aug 13, 2018 | Nation of Immigrants, Uncategorized
This is a story from Vox. The story is by Emily Stewart and can be found here. It is about an article written by Stephen Miller’s maternal uncle, David Glosser, which can be found here, who describes exactly how Miller’s family arrived in America....
by itabix | Jun 19, 2017 | Uncategorized
This is an interesting moment, and the stakes are high. Most of the main-stream media have taken it upon themselves to condemn the Public Theatre’s Julius Caesar for presenting Julius Caesar as Donald Trump. (He’s assassinated.) Two very large corporations have...
by itabix | Feb 17, 2017 | Ceremonies, Charles Howard, Courage, Fighting Back, Uncategorized
Ceremonies is a novel based on what happened in Bangor, Maine, during the weeks after Charlie Howard was murdered on July 7, 1984. An excerpt from that novel, given below, depicts a moment after a court appearance by “the boys” who committed the murder. In the crowd...
by itabix | Jan 10, 2017 | Adam in the Morning, Alcoholism, Barack Obama, Being gay, Bookstores, bookstores, Ceremonies, Coming to terms with the past, eBooks, Gay literature, Publishing, Race Point Light, The effects of bigotry, Uncategorized, Walking wounded, Winter Rain, Writing
I read an article on Slate today on writing and money, and it compels me to respond. The point of the article is the fact that so few writers actually make any money at their writing. Just about all writers are supported by doing something else, like teaching, and yet...
by itabix | Apr 12, 2015 | Uncategorized
President Obama leaving Jamaica. Photograph by Pete Souza, White House photographer. At last, we get a photograph of the metaphysical truth of our times.
by itabix | Jan 15, 2015 | Uncategorized
After showing a new video of the Kouachi brothers in Paris, Chris Hayes Tuesday night had a guest, Reza Aslan, a scholar of religions and author of No god but God, the Origins, Evolution, and Future of Islam. Professor Aslan has studied the violence in the Middle East...
by itabix | Feb 22, 2013 | eBooks, Uncategorized
The papers and the web have been full of news about Barnes & Noble—they’re cutting back on the number of their bookstores—with analyses on why that has happened and what this means for the future. I went by B&N today and was told our local, intown B&N is...
by itabix | Oct 11, 2012 | Coming out, Uncategorized
As long as our culture is homophobic, many gay people are going to feel they have to come out. It’s an act of courage, self-defense and self-respect. But I don’t think we think often about what we do when we come out and about what it means. Few people think...