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Charlie Jensen deftly examines a handful of our most celebrated films--some of them amongst my faves of all time, like Fatal Attraction, Scream, The Descent, Black Swan--and draws parallels to his life as a young gay man coming out, falling in and out of love, stumbling on the path, righting himself, being tripped up again, and ultimately discovering himself.
The juxtapositions between the fictional narratives and the autobiographical confessions, revelations, and declarations are insightful and sobering, ironic and humorous, and deeply poetic. I loved this book. I especially appreciated the chapter on The Descent, how Jensen hunts the darkness of a brutal traumatic event alongside the characters of that astonishingly visceral and blood-soaked ordeal. His takedown of Dan and toxic masculinity (and how far we have come [or not??] in our understanding of it since 1987) in the Fatal Attraction chapter is as badass as Ellen Ripely taking down the…
"A brilliantly clever and original autobiography/film dissection." —Deven Green, Comedic Chanteuse and LBGTQI+ advocate
"A bruising chronicle of coming of age, coming out, and coming into one's own." —Manuel Betancourt, author of The Male Gazed
"A must read for anyone who understands how it feels to be on the outside, looking in." — Monica Holloway, author of Driving with Dead People
"Splice of Life is brilliantly clever and teeming with ingenious wordplay, well-crafted characters, and intricate plot developments." —Deven Green, Comedic Chanteuse and LBGTQI+ advocate
Recipient of a City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs Cultural Trailblazer Award. Essays…
The dragons of Yuro have been hunted to extinction.
On a small, isolated island, in a reclusive forest, lives bandit leader Marani and her brother Jacks. With their outlaw band they rob from the rich to feed themselves, raiding carriages and dodging the occasional vindictive…
A collective of mercurial personalities, all seeking faith, meaning, sanctuary or peace--some simply seeking their own sense of self--gather for the creation of a lay community in the English countryside beside an epic Benedictine convent where the nuns are forbidden to be seen and the Abbess is as elusive as the Wizard of Oz, and arguably just as questionable.
The story is told primarily through the eyes of a free-spirited, quietly rebellious, naive young woman named Dora Greenfield who arrives at Imber Abbey to reconcile with her hot-headed and ridiculously misogynistic husband who has been assigned the reparation of ancient texts. Their relationship is laughable at best, maddening, but it gives the book most of its tension; it causes her to make decisions that have detrimental effects on the community. Likewise, the leader of Imber, Michael Meade, a closeted homosexual whose innocent advances result in drastic consequences, some from the…
A motley assortment of characters seek peace and salvation in this early masterpiece by the Booker Prize-winning author of The Sea, The Sea
A lay community of thoroughly mixed-up people is encamped outside Imber Abbey, home of an order of sequestered nuns. A new bell is being installed when suddenly the old bell, a legendary symbol of religion and magic, is rediscovered. And then things begin to change. Meanwhile the wise old Abbess watches and prays and exercises discreet authority. And everyone, or almost everyone, hopes to be saved, whatever that may mean. Originally published in 1958, this funny, sad,…
