“In his heart — and at heart — Larry saw himself as a writer.” . #larrykramer #gaywriters #aids #aidsactivism #lgbthistory #actup #thenormalheart #americanpeople #fightback #fightaids

Pat has a point! @PatBattle4NY @Gus4NY & I talk about #biographies unputdownable for different reasons: John Lewis by David Greenberg; Craig Brown's Q: A Voyage Around the Queen; Paper of Wreckage, by Susan Mulcahy & Frank DiGiacomo.

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Fall novels for any season, every mood: Louise Erdrich's The Mighty Red; The Sequel @hanff_jean; Our Evenings by Alan Hollinghurst. "He had to read novels in order to understand the sensations that engulfed him," a line from The Mighty Red I wont't forget.

Banned Books Week has ended; book bans have not. #Libraries are a shared inheritance. @PatBattle4NY @Gus4NY & I talk about endangered books and why they must remain available to all. #bannedbooks #genderqueer #bannedbooksweek #bluesteye #readbannedbooks

Don't miss the marvelous novels All the Colors of the Dark @WhittyAuthor & Small Rain @GarthGreenwell; totally different, equally brilliant. @JenMaxfield4NY & I discuss why the ideal companion is @EvanFriss The Bookshop. #books #read #book #bookstore

Bedroom fireworks. #4thofJuly #MacysFireworks #IndependenceDay2024 #fireworks #nyc #HudsonRiver #skyview #4th #westvillage #NYC

What so proudly we hailed. #flag #IndependenceDay #fireisland #lgbt #rainbowflag #cherrygrove #4thJuly #4thofJuly #gaypride #gayUSA #gayamerican #USA #starsandstripes

Happy Pride! Three revelatory books to celebrate: Candy Darling, by Cynthia Carr; A Place of Our Own @junethomas; The Other Olympians @michaelwwaters. Each important and marvelous, as @Gus4NY & I discuss. 📚🏳️‍🌈 . .#candydarling #olympics #LGBT #gaypride.

Happy Pride! Three revelatory books to celebrate: Candy Darling, by Cynthia Carr; A Place of Our Own @junethomas; The Other Olympians @michaelwwaters. Each essential, as @Gus4NY & I discuss. 📚🏳️‍🌈 #candydarling #olympics #LGBT #gaypride #stonewall #warhol

Summer #reading is here. Colm Tóibín's Long Island & City in Ruins @donwinslow (& his whole Danny Ryan trilogy): totally different, equally riveting, character driven & unputdownable #books. @Gus4NY & I talk about how great they are. #read #summereading

Mother's Day #books for moms and everyone. @PatBattle4NY and I highlight two novels by favorite authors, Helen Simonson's Hazelbourne Ladies. ; Ann Hood's Stolen Child; & the revelatory group biography, The Swans of Harlem @KarenValby. #MothersDay #read

Another great #book week, as @Gus4NY & I explain: #History by three equally brilliant, totally different, #writers: The Demon of Unrest @exlarson; I Just Keep Talking @PainterNell; The Muse of Fire, by Michael Korda. No need to choose. #Read them all.

Two fantastic #books out today: An Unfinished Love Story @DorisKGoodwin; Adam Moss's The Work of Art. The art of history at its peak; 43 artists reveal from the inside how something comes from nothing. Both spectacular. #read #reading #book #art #UShistory

If it's Tuesday, it must be @amortowles. His fantastic new book, Table for Two, is out today. Don't miss the unforgettable James by Percival Everett & @vcunningham's beautiful Great Expectations. A happy spring for fiction, as @JenMaxfield4NY & I discuss.

I hope you can join us @PerformSpaceNY on Monday at 7 pm!

RT @CullmanNYPL: TOMORROW!.

Join our zoom, "From That Time and Place," @BeineckeLibrary celebrating Andrew Holleran & Felice Picano on their 80th birthdays, Mon., Feb. 26, 4 p.m. ET. Free registration: ©️Robert Giard #lgbtq #lgbtwriters #gay #gaybooks #lgbtbooks #lgbt #gayfiction

RT @NYPLEvents: On February 27, join former @CullmanNYPL Fellows Mary Dearborn and Bill Goldstein (@BGoldsteinBooks) to discuss the biograp….

On #blackhistory: Madness @ahylton26, on "our traumas & illnesses" intertwined w/ "the peculiar reality of being black," Jim Crow to #jordanneely. James McBride's superb novel Heaven & Earth Grocery Store. Lincoln #PresidentsDay: Differ We Must @NPRinskeep

RT @book_podcast: As we step into the second month of 2024, Roxanne is joined by her friend and esteemed book reviewer, @BGoldsteinBooks, f….

RT @CullmanNYPL: We are thrilled to have the beautiful new biography of Carson McCullers by past @CullmanNYPL Fellow Mary Dearborn in hand!….