Author: Peter Ackroyd File Type: epub In Queer City Peter Ackroyd looks at London in a whole new way - through the history and experiences of its gay population. In Roman Londinium the city was dotted with lupanaria (wolf dens or public pleasure houses), fornices (brothels) and thermiae (hot baths). Then came the Emperor Constantine, with his bishops, monks and missionaries. And so began an endless loop of alternating permissiveness and censure. Ackroyd takes us right into the hidden history of the city from the notorious Normans to the frenzy of executions for sodomy in the early nineteenth. He journeys through the coffee bars of sixties Soho to Gay Liberation, disco music and the horror of AIDS. Today, we live in an era of openness and tolerance and Queer London has become part of the new norm. Ackroyd tells us the hidden story of how it got there, celebrating its diversity, thrills and energy on the one hand but reminding us of its very real terrors, dangers and risks on the other. Peter Ackroyd is the greatest living chronicler of London. (Independent). **Review After his mammoth, shamanic aria London the Biography, the remarkable writer Peter Ackroyd has produced a nimble, uproarious pocket history of sex in his beloved metropolis -- Alasdair Lees Independent Ackroyd has an encyclopaedic knowledge of London, and a poets instinct for its strange, mesmerising drives and urges ... Queer City contains something to alarm or fascinate on every page -- Craig Brown The Mail on Sunday If there was a prize for the most evocative or salacious chapter headings, then Peter Ackroyds new book, Queer City, would be the undisputed victor. They capture the rudery and naughtiness, although not the erudition of this entertaining history of the queer experience in London -- Robbie Millen The Times Succinct, perceptive and robust -- Rupert Christiansen Daily Telegraph The kind of screed a queer person would be remiss if they did not pick up. This is a call to arms... Throughout the book it is made clear that for every halcyon day, there was a dystopia that preceded and followed. The one great progress Ackroyd highlights is that we have one thing in the 21st century that the other eras did not an attempt a gay community ... London relies on queerness as much as queers have relied on the labyrinth and the bacchanal of the Big Smoke. Now, it seems, we have a chance to change it in the open -- David Levesley i About the Author Peter Ackroyd is an award-winning historian, biographer, novelist, poet and broadcaster. He is the author of the acclaimed non-fiction bestsellers London The Biography, Thames Sacred River and London Under **biographies of figures including Charles Dickens, William Blake, Charlie Chaplin and Alfred Hitchcock and a multi-volume history of England. He has won the Whitbread Biography Award, the Royal Society of Literatures William Heinemann Award, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, the Guardian Fiction Prize, the Somerset Maugham Award and the South Bank Prize for Literature. He holds a CBE for services to literature.

Author: Matthías Þórðarson File Type: pdf font face=DejaVu Sans, serifspan 14pxhttpwww.archive.orgdetailsvinlandvoyages00mattspanfont

Author: Armando File Type: epub Over de gelijkenis tussen een vogel en een man, over een mooi uitzicht, over doof zijn. Flarden van gesprekken en reflecties, door Armando opgetekend, vormen een valkuil voor de lezer bijna onmerkbaar verandert het alledaagse van karakter en wordt het absurde blootgelegd. Of hij nu naar bomen kijkt, sprookjes vertelt of het kunstenaarschap overpeinst, Armandos visie verrast telkens weer en geeft de werkelijkheid een inspirerende tik.Over SomsArmando hanteert niet alleen een prachtig precieze stijl, [...] ook weet hij de werkelijkheid te peilen, zonder dat altijd expliciet te benoemen, zonder dat omstandig uit te leggen. In alle verhalen blijkt de schrijver messcherp te observeren.NEDERLANDS DAGBLADOver Gedoe[Armando] gaat zijn gang, en laat niet met zich sollen. Net als de zee. Daarom schildert hij haar, zou het niet het zijn sprekende zelfportretten. Arjan Peters in DE VOLKSKRANTHet zijn 109 korte gedachten 109 inkijkjes in het afgesloten leven van Armando. Ze prikkelen de verbeelding, maken nieuwsgierig naar deze oerkunstenaar, nodigen uit tot diep nadenken over wat Armando bedoelt en hoe hij tot zijn overpeinzing is gekomen. En bovenal smeken ze om meer.NOORDHOLLANDS DAGBLAD

Author: James A. Crutchfield File Type: pdf First Published in 2015. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an Informa company.