In HaringLand
by Perry Brass
Last week I was lucky enough to go to the Skarstedt Gallery on the very luxe East 79th Street (20 East 79th, to be exact, in the heart of the super-high-rent district; you don’t rent here - you own) to see a Keith Haring show. Not just any Keith Haring show. The [...]

The Porn of Porn
by Perry Brass
Last month I was in a panel discussion at New York’s LGBT Community Center in Greenwich Village on “The Literature of Porn.” The panel came about through an online relationship I had developed with Michael Lucas. Lucas was born in Russia of a Russian-Jewish background, immigrated to Western Europe (notably [...]

Due to a scheduling issue, the next “In the Writer’s World” column will be published Thursday, June 12.

Judging a Book by Its Cover, and Then Some, Part III
by Perry Brass
Her question: “Carnal Sacraments could be marketed as a queer book, or as Science Fiction (SF). The cover makes it pretty clear that the publishers intend to market it as a queer book; there’s hardly any hint that the contents are very much [...]

Judging a Book by Its Cover, and Then Some, Part II
by Perry Brass
I soon learned that even doing a small poetry book was much harder than I had anticipated: choosing which poems to include, their sequence, front and back cover material, and how the design of the book would sell both the book and the [...]

Artist and Audience: 12 “Normal” Responses to Creativity
by Perry Brass
For many people, including artists themselves, art is a mystery; how creativity and its resultant product—art—happens, seems almost impossible to explain outside the realm of magic, and that strange infusion of the Muses called “inspiration.” But after dealing with art for decades, I started to see [...]

We’d like to let you know about two new stellar columnists who’ve just joined the team. And beginning next week you can check out these new columns right here!
LONG STORY SHORT | Every other Tuesday, beginning March 25th
Josh Livingston, a Brooklyn-based design professional and weekly self-documenter, picks at culture like loose threads on a jacket. [...]