Hugh Ryan 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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Hugh Ryan is a writer, historian, and curator. Find me elsewhere: @hughryan@mastodon.lol Order your copy today: "THE WOMEN'S HOUSE OF DETENTION: A Queer History of a Forgotten Prison" https://t.co/FMpk48K5P5
Maurice
E. M. ForsterHugh RyanDo you love Downton Abbey? How about EM Forster's MAURICE? If so, this one is for you: A close consideration for @TandCmag of why Thomas Barrow is an unlikely queer character, and what it meant for the show's overall treatment of modernity and sexuality https://t.co/psWZHQewCZ
Paperback, 2005
$15.95$7.97 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals
Saidiya HartmanHugh Ryan@HermioneClone @tainab Thank you! And some that I love include WAYWARD LIVES, BEAUTIFUL EXPERIMENTS (by Saidiya Hartman), LET THE RECORD SHOW (Sarah Schulman), BUTCH QUEEN UP IN PUMPS (Marlon Bailey), FIGHT LIKE HELL (Kim Kelley)
Paperback, 2020
$17.95$8.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Trials of Nina McCall: Sex, Surveillance, and the Decades-Long Government Plan to Imprison Promiscuous Women
Scott W. SternHugh RyanIf folks want to know more about the American Plan, I highly recommend @ScottWStern ‘s THE TRIALS OF NINA MCCALL https://t.co/R1eZRwuxnD
Paperback, 2019
$19.00$9.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Frighten the Horses
Oliver RadclyffeHugh RyanJust finished this phenomenal book. It is so honest, ethical, and thoughtful - while also being loving, open-minded, and funny - and wonderfully written. Just great from start to finish!
Hardcover, 2024
$28.00$14.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Town of Babylon
Alejandro VarelaHugh RyanTomorrow! Hear @drovarela read from his magnificent new book THE TOWN OF BABYLON! https://twitter.com/drovarela/status/1524757537857458176
Hardcover, 2022
$27.00$13.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Hail Mary...
Bright InspiredHugh RyanJust pre-ordered HAIL MARY (by @britnidlc and @darcangel21) and DEEP SNIFF (by @AdamZmith)! Can't wait for the day when they suddenly arrive like gifts from my past self https://t.co/LfBsZNyncX
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How You Get Famous: Ten Years of Drag Madness in Brooklyn
Nicole PasulkaHugh RyanRead this and then pre-order HOW YOU GET FAMOUS here: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/How-You-Get-Famous/Nicole-Pasulka/9781982115791 https://twitter.com/nicolepasulka/status/1533086369316327429
Paperback, 2023
$18.99$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Saint of Bright Doors
Vajra ChandrasekeraHugh RyanFun, beautiful, queer, unexpected, silly, serious - I loved it
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Leaves of Grass
Walt WhitmanHugh RyanToday, Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass turns 166! He wrote the book (in part) to define and commemorate love between men (made possible for him by urban life), and I love the way he writes that intention into the 3rd stanza of "In Cabin'd Ships at Sea" https://t.co/9LkxgePCyD https://t.co/Jzz0Me6XOU
Leather / Fine Binding, 2018
$24.99$12.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Reconstruction
Frederick DouglassHugh RyanRT @DominiqueJL15: Our Composite Nation: Frederick Douglass’ America uses a Reconstruction-Era speech of Frederick Douglass, and his advoca…
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