The Carnivorous Lamb by Agustin Gomez-Arcos

You’re sure to find much common ground with these fine writers.

Marcus’ opus about Berlin, The Captain’s Fire. You’ll hear from such terrific writers as Christopher Bram, who lauds Allen Barnett’s The Body and Its Dangers, a Lammy award winning collection of six powerful short stories, Sean Meriwether, who shares his own coming out process hastened by Lynn Hall’s YA classic, Sticks and Stones and Aaron Hamburger’s ruminations on J.S. This most marvelous book-about-books is an informative, fascinating look at 28 little-known queer classics and how they affected some of today’s best and best-informed authors. And it rises addictively like pollen of crack cocaine from the pages of Tom Cardamone’s The Lost Library: Gay Fiction Rediscovered. It’s the musty scent of wisdom, wit and passed-on wealth of knowledge that has enabled queer culture to survive. You can smell it from the street, a heady printer’s perfume that lures you through the door and won’t let you back out until you’ve dropped at least fifty bucks on out of print, dog-eared treasures. Otis, the owner, has his shelves crammed with queer lit and where there aren’t books, the paintings and framed photographs are stacked to near tipping height.But what really sets a book-romantic like me salivating is the smell-the dusty aroma of book-musk. One of my favorite places in New Orleans is the FAB Bookstore, a little hole-in-the-wall place on Frenchman Street in the Marigny. Buy it now direct from Haiduk Press or from Amazon through The Dreamwalker Group.

The Carnivorous Lamb by Agustin Gomez-Arcos