Here are some of the books I’ve edited. For a full list of my acquisitions, please consult Publishers Marketplace.
2024
Dead in Long Beach, California: A Novel by Venita Blackburn (01/23/24)
Ten Bridges I've Burnt: A Memoir in Verse by Brontez Burnell (02/13/24)
Who's Afraid of Gender? by Judith Butler (03/19/24)
In Tongues: A Novel by Thomas Grattan (05/21/24)
The Other Olympians: Fascism, Queerness, and the Making of Modern Sports by Michael Waters (06/04/24)
State of Paradise: A Novel by Laura van den Berg (07/09/24)
Napalm in the Heart: A Novel by Pol Guasch (07/23/24)
Published titles
Comedy Book: How Comedy Conquered Culture–and the Magic That Makes It Work by Jesse David Fox (11/07/23)
Open Throat: A Novel by Henry Hoke (06/06/23)
Cosmic Scholar: The Life and Times of Harry Smith by John Szwed (08/22/23)
Biography of X: A Novel by Catherine Lacey (03/21/23)
If I Survive You by Jonathan Escoffery (09/06/22)
A Divine Language: Learning Algebra, Geometry, and Calculus at the Edge of Old Age by Alec Wilkinson (07/12/22)
Everything I Need I Get from You: How Fangirls Created the Internet as We Know It by Kaitlin Tiffany (06/14/22)
Nevada: A Novel by Imogen Binnie (06/07/22)
Valleyesque: Stories by Fernando A. Flores (05/03/22)
Mecca: A Novel by Susan Straight (03/15/22)
The Doloriad: A Novel by Missouri Williams (03/01/22)
Manywhere: Stories by Morgan Thomas (01/27/22)
The Uninnocent: Notes on Violence and Mercy by Katharine Blake (11/2/2021)
How to Wrestle a Girl: Stories by Venita Blackburn (9/7/2021)
Field Study by Chet'la Sebree (6/1/2021)
Let the Record Show: A Political History of ACT UP New York, 1987-1993 by Sarah Schulman (5/18/2021)
The Recent East: A Novel by Thomas Grattan (3/9/2021)
100 Boyfriends by Brontez Purnell (2/2/2021)
Blockchain Chicken Farm: And Other Stories of Tech in China's Countryside by Xiaowei Wang (10/13/2020)
What Tech Calls Thinking: An Inquiry into the Intellectual Bedrock of Silicon Valley by Adrian Daub (10/13/2020)
The Pink Line: Journeys Across the World's Queer Frontiers by Mark Gevisser (7/28/2020)
Tears of the Trufflepig: A Novel by Fernando A. Flores (5/14/2019)
Here are a few exciting acquisitions of mine that are in progress.
Saving Five by Amanda Nguyen
From Amanda Nguyen, 2019 Nobel Peace Prize nominee, 2022 TIME Woman of the Year, and astronaut candidate at the International Institute of Astronautical Sciences, the story of her fight to create and successfully pass the Sexual Assault Survivors' Bill of Rights in the aftermath of her rape at Harvard, a journey of survival tracing her childhood and the against-all-odds effort to pass one of the only unanimous laws in the history of the United States and, later, the United Nations.
Love in Exile by Shon Faye
From Shon Faye, author of the Sunday Times bestseller The Transgender Issue and columnist at American Vogue, a meditation on love, fulfillment, and connection in a lonely age that uses queerness as a lens to explore heterosexual society's rigid rules for women, and the freedom that comes with escaping them.
Waiting for Britney Spears by Jeff Weiss
From freelance writer/LA-icon Jeff Weiss, a multifaceted portrait of the beloved, embattled pop star, tracing the singer's meteoric rise and tragic fall alongside America's own peak and decline in the 2000s, combining cultural criticism and history along with the Jeff’s early experience as a tabloid writer shadowing Spears, resulting in an exploration of America's last great pop star and the world that exploited her.
Fear of a Female Genius by Lindsay Zoladz
From Lindsay Zoladz, New York Times critic and cultural critic, a feminist history of the idea of artistic genius and a critical journey through the lives and work of many female artists, writers, and musicians who transformed male-dominated fields, including Joni Mitchell, Yoko Ono, Elaine May, Hilma af Klint, and Mary Shelley, as well as several previously unsung female artists, all of whom inspire and argument for a new and more expansive understanding of genius itself.
Speed of Life by Andrew Durbin
From Andrew Durbin, editor-in-chief of frieze, an exploration of three foundational, transgressive, and intimately connected gay artists—Paul Thek, Peter Hujar, and David Wojnarowicz—who defined New York's storied downtown scene and later the international art world, and who ultimately changed contemporary art forever; a book about friendship and death, queerness and community, and the complicated meanings of "legacy."
Play the Tape by Rembert Browne
From Rembert Browne, former writer-at-large at New York magazine and staff writer at Grantland, a cultural history tracing the last 20 years of the American experiment—from Black culture and domestic politics to an Internet that suddenly made everything possible—alongside a generation's coming-of-age and the author's own stories of success, setback, and survival, to interrogate how we got to this unprecedented point, so the past can inform our future.
Tramps Like Us by Joe Westmoreland, introduction by Eileen Myles
Originally published in 2001, a classic gay novel set across America in the 1970s and '80s and following a young gay man as he traverses a changing country, finding and losing friends and lovers, and coming to terms with his sexuality and identity through his travels and, eventually, through the start of the HIV/AIDS epidemic.
The Wickedest by Caleb Femi
From Caleb Femi, poet, multi-hyphenate artist, and author of Poor, an epic that narrates a single night within South London's longest-running house party, simulating the minute-by-minute reveries of nightlife through the lenses of class, language, technology, and community.
Caring at the End of the World by Xiaowei Wang
From Xiaowei Wang, author of Blockchain Chicken Farm and 2023 National Book Foundation Science + Literature Award winner, a chronicle of the entanglement of technology and care in America—in particular the way in which quick-fix technology has transformed our beliefs about what it means to be healthy, and how to care for ourselves and our communities.
Here are some book-related chats.
Barnes & Noble’s Poured Over podcast: An interview with Miwa Messer, host of the podcast, alongside Henry Hoke, author of Open Throat (June 2023)
Gagosian magazine: A profile in Gagosian alongside some amazing editors (summer 2022).
St. Henri Books podcast Weird Era: A discussion about publishing and my career (July 2022).
Vogue: An interview with Vogue about the state of queer publishing (June 2022).
Lehman College, CUNY: A talk with Lehman College’s Writing Queer Literature course (February 2022).
FSG x LitHub podcast Well-Versed: In conversation with Eric Cervini, author of The Deviant’s War, and Mark Gevisser, author of The Pink Line, about queer rights, past and present (June 2020).
FSG x LitHub podcast Well-Versed: In conversation with Thomas Grattan, author of The Recent East, about the genesis of his debut novel (February 2021).