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The Butcher's Sons
Scott Alexander Hess

''The Butcher's Sons manages to tell a thousand human stories through three young brothers in Hell's Kitchen. Their struggles for success and respect, their yearning desires for sex and love, are compelling and familiar and disturbingly influential--they make a reader want to throw a punch and then go get laid.'' -L.A. Fields, author of Countrycide and My Dear Watson             

"The complexity of love-brotherly, fatherly, romantic-told through the eyes of brothers Dickie, Walt, Adlai, and their father Pat in The Butcher's Sons is at once universal and compellingly particular. It's a wallop of a read, packed with beauty and brutality-often in the same sentence-and poetically wrought by Scott Alexander Hess."  - Jamie Brickhouse, author of Dangerous When Wet: A Memoir   

       
This darkly lyrical and violent family saga set in a butcher shop in New York circa 1930 tells the story about three Irish brothers, each struggling to find their role--to define their lives and express their dreams--amid the poverty of a broken home, alcoholic father, and the violent society of Hell's Kitchen. Dickie is guided by an almost animal desire to get what he wants and, as a fighter, is fearless in his pursuit of being respected by mobsters. Walt, the middle brother, romances a woman whose educated father sees the lad as gutter trash. Then there is frail Adlai, who finds himself on the most perilous path, an illicit affair with his oldest brother's best friend.  The Butcher's Sons  is an engaging read about desperate young men determined to do whatever they can to find something gilded amid the grime of old New York.

Hess has written for Genre Magazine and blogs for the Huffington Post. Hess lives in Manhattan with his boyfriend, shops at Barneys, and does not eat sugar.             

 Paperback, 256 pages
ISBN 978-1-59021-074-1
Retails for $18

  
Rebels

Jeff Mann
 

Celebrate the 150th anniversary of the end of the War Between the States by some fine poetry extolling even finer men!

Poets have been responding in lyric to the bloody aspects of war since Homer's era, and the American Civil War, in its scale and ferocity, was unquestionably one of the bloodiest. In Rebels, acclaimed poet Jeff Mann ranges the battlefields where such destruction occurred: famous battles like Malvern Hill, Fredericksburg, Gettysburg, and Cold Harbor, and those lesser known, such as Scary Creek and Cloyd's Farm. In his travels, Mann muses on Southern heritage and the sufferings of the Confederate people, both soldiers and civilians. As he did in his popular Civil War-era novels, Purgatory  and Salvation,  Mann ''queers'' the War as few other writers have, examining the conflict from a gay man's perspective. In this fine edition, several of Mann's poems have been illustrated by artists, making this volume unique in the fields of both Civil War studies and contemporary poetry.

Booksellers: please be advised that Rebels is short-discounted. If you would like to stock, we recommend you purchase the book with a larger Lethe order to ensure a suitable discount

ISBN 978-1-59021-114-4
Paperback, 174 full color pages
Retails for $33
 

  
Hard

Wayne Hoffman
 

It's New York City in the late 1990s. There's an ongoing public campaign to close down adult businesses. And gay men are deeply involved in the crackdown--on both sides. Moe Pearlman's sex life is under attack. A conservative mayor is closing down bathhouses, sex clubs and adult theaters--with the secret cooperation of Frank DeSoto, publisher of the only gay newspaper in town. As the crackdown escalates, the tensions between Moe and Frank boil over into a full-scale battle--and, eventually, a personal tug-of-war--between two people with opposing ideas of what it means to be a gay man in the age of AIDS. Moe thinks he might have accidentally stumbled upon romance when he meets Max Milano, but after Max walks in on Moe and several buddies during a steamy scene, Moe finds that the man of his dreams might not be able to handle such a promiscuous boyfriend. And Frank, after a decade-long drought, is enjoying a sexual rebirth as his 50th birthday approaches, but he's not sure if he can find a partner without having to pay for it. Added to this mix is Aaron Chiles, Moe's best friend, who's having trouble accepting the fact that his new boyfriend is a hustler. Meanwhile, Gene Macintosh, Moe's HIV-positive ex-lover, is delighted to find that his viral load is undetectable, but his obsessive partner still treats him like a health risk. From backrooms to newsrooms, the Meatrack to City Hall,  Hard  explores a world where sex is a matter of life or death, and politics make the strangest bedfellows.
 
ISBN 978-1-59021-290-5
Paperback, 364 pages
Retails for $20
 

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