The Center for LGBTQ Studies (CLAGS) at the City University of New York is the oldest program of its kind in the US. CLAGS convened a conference on the topic of Queer-Class, and a panel discussion I proposed was on the schedule. Burlesque Performer, Educator, and Headmistress Jo Wheldon and I had a free-wheeling discussion… Continue reading Queer SWers on Subverting Class @ CUNY/CLAGS
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AWP ’26 Baltimore
Well my press was a no-show but I was adopted by the good folks at Queer Love Project. I had a book signing at their table (sold out my stock!) and took the stage at the QLP Offsite at The Club Car, a queer bar with a fab crowd. I gave them my sex worker… Continue reading AWP ’26 Baltimore
QLP Live Substack
(It’s 2026, but I’m catching up on 2025 stuff after experiencing the hallucinatory magic of the Réveillon in Rio de Janiero 🇧🇷) Back in September, I had a great talk with Jerry Portwood of the Queer Love Project Substack Live. We discussed the launch of AFTERLIFE OF A KEPT BOY, staying creative and engaged under… Continue reading QLP Live Substack
Miss Manhattan @ Niagara
I joined Vivian Manning-Schaffel (whose riotous essay on Nonnacore excoriates current values around aging), Elena Sheppard, and host Elyssa Maxx Goodman at September’s Miss Manhattan, Elyssa’s long-running monthly series featuring nonfiction. Read from chapter 8 of AFTERLIFE OF A KEPT BOY, “Are U Available?” which covers my friendship with Dean Johnson. About Dean’s core grievance… Continue reading Miss Manhattan @ Niagara
NYRS Launch @ Book Row
Fun times in the rain! From the alley to the store interior of Book Row. Heard some great pieces from Emily Mitchell, Goeff Dembricki, Kevin Gonzalez, and Mani Mekala, who all appear in the inaugural issue of the New York Review of Smut. From the reading: I developed a baseline identity, a bisexual Italian guy… Continue reading NYRS Launch @ Book Row
Queer Discourse Podcast
I had a really enjoyable convo with Lou Barrett of Purple Palm Press, who hosts the Queer Discourse podcast. QD also has stellar episodes with authors Torrey Peters and Jason Yamas, check them out too. Lou & I discussed some major themes of AFTERLIFE OF A KEPT BOY: agency, solitude, the Italian-American condition–and got into… Continue reading Queer Discourse Podcast
The Twink Death of it all
Only days after its publication, the first review of AFTERLIFE OF A KEPT BOY is out. More than feeling seen I’m feeling clocked! Writing in the Whitney Review of New Writing Issue 005, Journey Streams gets into the twink death narrative of it all. Full transcript of the review: When a twink dies, what else… Continue reading The Twink Death of it all
Memoir pub date!
Bruce Benderson suggested inverting the original title to AFTERLIFE OF A KEPT BOY and the amazing folks at C&R Press agreed. He also suggested the 2-part structure, the (solar) kept boy period and the (lunar) afterlife. After some delays we made it to the pub date! The Press is honestly courageous publishing a queer, sex-work… Continue reading Memoir pub date!
Saints + Sinners ’25
This year’s queer lit fest in New Orleans took some unexpected turns. I participated in a lively panel discussion about genre (fiction vs. nonfiction) which was deftly moderated by Doc McLemore and featured my press-mate Brian Alessandro, Bobby Fieseler (whose new book American Scare investigates Florida Red-Scare era politics and draws a through-line to today’s),… Continue reading Saints + Sinners ’25
Reading from AoaKB at Pub Tri
For OUTspoken, the Publishing Triangle‘s monthly reading series at the BGSQD, I field-tested an excerpt from Chapter 1 of AFTERLIFE OF A KEPT BOY (Available for pre-order from C&R Press, the new release date is May 16th, 2025) Thanks for Rob Byrnes for landing all those blurbs! Link to Youtube recording. I go on at… Continue reading Reading from AoaKB at Pub Tri