Paul Russell, Author Carol Publishing Corporation $24.95 (386p) ISBN 978-0-8065-1591-5
From Socrates and Sappho to Madonna and activist/journalist Michelangelo Signorile, this listing profiles those who have profoundly shaped gay and lesbian culture-and culture in general: the Amazons, 14th-century Persian poet Hafiz, Proust, Michel...
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Paul Russell, Author Dutton Books $18.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-525-24832-3
A salt point is the place in a river where it turns into an estuary, switching from fresh to salt water. ``It's always changing,'' observes a character in this provocative novel. ``You can't exactly fix it, but it's there, a point. But it's never...
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Paul Russell, Author Dutton Books $19.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-525-93327-4
As this compelling novel opens, Tony Blair, ex-cult film star, is in prison for murder. How he got there is the puzzle that drives this powrful coming-of-age story, a tragedy about an emotionally battered gay youth with appeal that easily extend...
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Paul Russell, Author Plume Books $8.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-452-26592-9
Leigh, a teenaged hustler, enthralls Lydia, gay hairdresser Anatole and bisexual Christopher in this tale of alcoholism, drugs and shifting relationships set in Poughkeepsie, N.Y. According to PW, ``Graphic homosexual encounters combined with some...
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Paul Russell, Author Dutton Books $21.95 (416p) ISBN 978-0-525-93895-8
Russell's third novel (after Boys of Life), a transplanetary sexual fantasia that chronicles the life of an astronaut's family in the age of AIDS, is so humongous in its attempted scope that it succeeds at a lot of things, among them confounding the
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Paul Russell. Cleis, $16.95 trade paper (376p) ISBN 978-1-57344-719-5
In this meticulously researched novel, Russell (The Coming Storm) imagines the life of the younger, and now forgotten, Nabokov—Sergey. Always living in the shadow of his older brother, Sergey finds himself in 1943 Berlin working for the Propaganda...
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Paul Russell, Author, Russell, Author St. Martin's Press $24.95 (368p) ISBN 978-0-312-20514-0
Disaster looms over the characters in Russell's (Sea of Tranquillity) accomplished fourth novel, as repressed and expressed sexualities clash on the sedate campus of a modern-day boys' prep school in upstate New York. Tracy Parker, a handsome,...
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Paul Russell, Author . St. Martin's $24.95 (358p) ISBN 978-0-312-20935-3
Russell (The Coming Storm, etc.) eloquently explores the divide between gay and straight culture in his latest novel, a thoughtful, provocative study of an attraction that develops between an upscale, retired garden designer who is HIV-positive and...
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Paul Russell, illus. by Nicky Johnston. EK (QDS, dist.), $17.99 (24p) ISBN 978-1-925335-47-7
A girl affectingly describes spending time with her grandmother, who has dementia and doesn’t remember her granddaughter from visit to visit. “Every time we meet, it’s like meeting someone new,” the girl says. Australian author Russell doesn’t dwell
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