Robert Rodi, Author . Plume $13 (320p) ISBN 978-0-452-28310-7
Rodi uses the checkered career of a B-movie bimbo as a vehicle to skewer the cult of celebrity in his latest novel, a typically raunchy romp that begins with actress Viola Chute dictating her memoirs to her ghost writer, E. Manfred Harry. Harry...
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Robert Rodi, Author . Kensington $24 (426p) ISBN 978-0-7582-1533-8
In Rodi's tepid latest, Jack Ackerly, 53, has made a pile in public relations and earned himself a comfortable place among Chicago's gay A-crowd, but the recent decamping of his boyfriend, Wicker Park art dealer Harold "Harry" McGann,
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Robert Rodi, Author Dutton Books $23.95 (336p) ISBN 978-0-525-93926-9
Rodi (Fag Hag; Closet Case; What They Did to Princess Paragon and Drag Queen) once again skewers an archetype of contemporary gay life. This time, it's the figure of the kept boy who's subject to Rodi's characteristic wit and sauce. Dennis Racine is
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Robert Rodi, Author Dutton Books $20 (304p) ISBN 978-0-525-93406-6
A celebration of human foibles and an offbeat optimism fuel the humor in this lively tale of unrequited love turned to perilous obsession. Flamboyant Natalie Stathis, the novel's eponymous fag hag, lives for the companionship of Peter, a handsome...
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Robert Rodi, Author Plume Books $14 (304p) ISBN 978-0-452-26940-8
This lively first novel shows how flamboyant Natalie Stathis (``Fag Hag'') reacts when her gay friend Peter takes up with a gun dealer. (Jan.)
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Robert Rodi, Author Dutton Books $21 (336p) ISBN 978-0-525-93606-0
Because a kind of goofy charm imbues this second novel from the author of Fag Hag , readers may be happily hooked despite a few shortcomings. Lionel Frank, the titular hero, is a gay man whose closet is tightly locked lest macho co-workers at a...
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Robert Rodi, Author Dutton Books $19.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-525-93772-2
How the world's greatest comic-book artist, Brian Parrish, a 38-year-old gay man from Manhattan, ends up trapped in a food plant ``in the middle of some piddly little college town two hours outside Chicago'' is part of the delight of Rodi's new...
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Robert Rodi, Author Dutton Books $21.95 (272p) ISBN 978-0-525-93925-2
With titles like Rodi's (Fag Hag, Closet Case), subtlety is certainly not an issue; his latest gay-themed romp proves no exception. As Mitchell Sayer's Mame-ish mama sets out to join a Tibetan convent (in Wisconsin), she tells her lawyer son that he
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Robert Rodi, Louis Small, Jr., Mark Farmer, and Amanda Conner, Vertigo, $19.99 paper (164p) ISBN 9781401227982
When this daffy, cheesecake/beefcake-heavy spy parody (essentially James Bond via ”Modesty Blaise“ via ”Austin Powers“) was serialized in 2001, it didn’t attract much notice. So why reprint it in 2010? Perhaps because one chapter features early...
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Robert Rodi. Oni, $19.99 trade paper (152p) ISBN 978-1-62010-547-4
This unremarkable collection of 12 issues puts a queer spin on Robin Hood. With Robin’s former lover, King Richard the Lionheart, off on crusade, usurper Prince John and the Bishop of Hereford conspire to outlaw homosexual acts, targeting Richard’s...
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