Renewal

  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...

Armistice Day

Dulce et Decorum Est by Wilfred Owen Bent double, like old beggars under sacks, Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge, Till on the haunting flares we turned our backs, And towards our distant rest began to trudge. Men marched asleep. Many had lost...

Earthrise and Channing Smith

I wrote this a week ago: It is a truth that LGBTQ+IA persons do not have a literature that reflects us. We have a literature that reflects some of us, and we have a literature that reflects many of us partially. We don’t have a literature that reflects how varied the...

Think of Ruth Bader Ginsburg and wish her well

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...

George Herbert Walker Bush

The Congress, at this moment, is delivering eulogies in the Capitol Rotunda. Somebody said, “A man of grace.” Vice-President Pence was moved to say, “He was a good man.” Well, no. George Herbert Walker Bush, in his campaign for president, accepted the help of the...

Earthrise 11

1 Neil Armstrong was difficult to live with and probably denied Janet, his wife, and his sons what they may have wanted most from him—warmth and love—but Armstrong stumbled into the one place on Earth where what was wanted from him was exactly what he had to offer—a...

Gay political novels

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...

How almost all of us got here

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....