Bruce LaBruce Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
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Bruce LaBruce is a filmmaker, writer, photographer and artist living in Toronto. Instagram: @brucelabruce

Coal Miner's Daughter
Loretta Lynn
RIP country and western superstar Loretta Lynn, dead at 90, played so winningly by Sissy Spacek in Michael Apted's great 1980 film "Coal Miner's Daughter," for which she won best actress Oscar https://t.co/N5oV3YbRpy
Paperback, 2021
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Blab! Vol. 17
Monte Beauchamp
The hardcore version of my new feature porn film "The Affairs of Lidia" for @lust_cinema starring Skye Blue @skyebluewantsu arrives this Friday April 8th at the Lust website #lustcinema Photo by BLAB https://t.co/6tSZVX8reH
Paperback, 2006
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Silence: Lectures and Writings, 50th Anniversary Edition
John Cage
Composer, writer, artist, and Zen Buddhist John Cage, who pioneered the aesthetics of silence, was BOTD in 1912 and died in 1992 at the age of 79. He was in a longterm lesbian relationship with the famous dancer and choreographer Merce Cunningham https://t.co/EiV4CGhvqh
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The Night of the Iguana
Tennessee Williams
Genius gay playwright Tennessee Williams was BOTD in 1911 & died of a Seconal overdose in 1983 at 71. Besides Joseph Losey's "Boom," two of my fave screen adaptations of his plays are Peter Glenville's "Summer and Smoke" (1961) & John Huston's "The Night of the Iguana" (1964) https://t.co/4pza6kkLoW
Paperback, 2009
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Last Supper
Libby Howard
Genius photographer Diane (Dee-Anne) Arbus was BOTD in 1923 & died in 1971 at 48 by ingesting barbiturates & cutting her wrists. She wrote "Last Supper" in her diary and placed her appointment book on the stairs leading up to the bathroom. Pictured w/ husband actor Allan Arbus https://t.co/xZ6fNusq1o
Paperback, 2019
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12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos
Jordan B. Peterson
Forget Jordan Peterson's "12 Rules for Life." Here are my 23 Rules for Mens: https://t.co/LSXYAfnp3C
Hardcover, 2018
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Goodbye, Columbus: And Five Short Stories
Philip Roth
Philip Roth was BOTD in 1933 & died in 2018 at 85. I read "Goodbye, Columbus" & "Portnoy's Complaint" in high school (as the closest thing i could get to what might approximate pornography, along w/ Henry Miller & William Burroughs), but never saw the 1972 movie until now 1/2 https://t.co/0zCgnq95B9
Paperback, 1994
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Scum Manifesto
Valerie Solanas
The great Lebanese-French actor, feminist & activist Delphine Seyrig was BOTD in 1932 & died in 1990 of ovarian cancer at 58. In this 1976 film she recites an excerpt from Valerie Solanas' "SCUM Manifesto" as it had gone out of print https://t.co/cCaXdTWgbM
Paperback, 2013
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Who's Afraid of Virginia
Edward Albee
The brilliant gay playwright Edward Albee was BOTD in 1928 and died in 2016 at the age of 88. "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" remains one of the great sacred texts of the 20th Century Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf (1966) - Boxing Story https://t.co/tXLo5k9MY9 via @YouTube
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Bent: The Play
Martin Sherman
HBD USA sexpot movie star Richard Gere who was BOTD in 1949, turning 73 today. Another thing that sparked my sexual imagination was seeing him on Broadway in the original production of Martin Sherman's "Bent," a play revolving around the persecution of gays under the Third Reich https://t.co/qat7wPAiIk
Paperback, 2000
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