The gay subculture of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century New York City is revealed in a bawdy look at the underside of the Harlem Renaissance, as seen through the eyes of gay Harlem's most famous diva, A'Lelia Walker. 20,000 first printing.

Product Description: Drew Burke is twenty--a working-class college student in Baltimore. Seduced by the wealth that surrounds him, Drew finds himself drawn into a complex and sensually charged freindship with Bahar RTichards and her brother, Jake. Then, over an intimate long weekend at the Richards family home, certain shocking details about Jake's past come to light, and the more Drew learns, the more he suspects he hasn't heard the whole story...read more

A debut novel starring Joe Keith, originally introduced in The New Yorker, finds the young man coming of age amidst the bawdy splendor of New Orleans, where his entire life changes in one night. Reprint. NYT.

A gay teenager looking for love in Louisiana stumbles into a conspiracy to tamper with a verdict, in an atmospheric novel about New Orleans nightlife by an up-and-coming writer for The New Yorker. A first novel. 15,000 first printing.