Resultados Editorial "Audible Studios" en Literatura y ficción

«Una notte ho sognato un demone che mangiava i libri di casa mia.» E al risveglio, questo sogno diventa per l'autore un rovello: un ipotetico demone come sceglierebbe i titoli da aggredire? E quali sarebbe necessario salvare? Ma la cosa più importante che fanno i classici è renderci la vita insieme più intensa e più semplice, insegnandoci senza averne l'aria lezioni importantissime: cos'è l'identità, cos'è la politica, come si forma la coscienza di un popolo – e come esplode la sua ribellione.

In between the space of time when Ezra lights themself on fire and when Ezra dies, the world of this book flashes before their eyes. Everyone Ezra’s ever loved, every place they’ve felt queer and at home, or queer and out of place, reveals itself in an instant. Unfolding in fragments of memory, Ezra dissolves into the family, religion, desire, losses, pains, and joys that made them into the person that’s decided on this final act of protest.

Everything in Edith’s life is approaching disaster. Her writing career is stagnant. Her love life is a mess. Her ex, Tessa, is marrying a man. Her teeth are rotting in her skull. And her best friend, Val, is dead. Still Life volleys between the present and recent past, chronicling the lives of three women—one cis, two trans, all forever entwined.

Der neue Roman von Hengameh Yaghoobifarah. Freitagabend, ein Hochhaus, 15. Stock. Avas Date mit Robin läuft perfekt. Bis es klingelt und zwei unerwartete Gäste vor der Tür stehen: Delia hat das Handy in Avas Schlafzimmer liegen lassen und will es abholen kommen. Silvia möchte Ava zur Rede stellen, denn seit einer Weile wird sie geghostet. In Avas Flur begegnen sich die drei Liebhaber_innen nun zum ersten Mal. Überfordert flüchtet Ava auf das Dach des Hochhauses, die anderen laufen ihr hinterher. In der Eile bringt niemand den Schlüssel oder ein Handy mit.

In the summer of 2020, with a heat wave bearing down and a brood of periodical cicadas climbing into the trees, Husha mourns the recent death of her mother while quarantining with her ailing grandfather, Arthur, at his lakeside cabin in remote Ontario. They’re soon joined by Husha’s ex-lover, Nellie, who arrives without explanation to complete their trio. Also among them is a strange book, discovered by Husha while cleaning out her mother’s house.

A grieving mother calls out to her faraway son. A student forgoes the lurid appeal of dating apps in exchange for a painter’s love. The anonymous voices of queer native men converge amid violent eroticism. A man just out of prison balances the uneasy weight of family and freedom, while a professor returns home to conduct research only to be haunted by a dark specter. The stories and voices in Billy-Ray Belcourt’s debut story collection are buoyed by philosophical undergirding, poetic demand, and the complex relationship between aesthetics and ethics.

It’s the summer of 1984 in Swaffham, Massachusetts, when Mel (short for Melanie) meets Sylvia, a tough-as-nails trans woman whose shameless swagger inspires Mel’s dawning self-awareness. But Sylvia’s presence sparks fury among her neighbors and throws Mel into conflict with her mother and best friend. Decades later, in 2019, Max (formerly Mel) is on probation from his teaching job for, ironically, defying speech codes around trans identity. Back in Swaffham, he must navigate life as part of a fractured family and face his own role in the disasters of the past.

1953: Der junge Journalist Eddy McLaine und sein Fotograf Bruno Matthiesen machen sich mit einem ausgebauten VW-Bus auf die weite Reise von Deutschland in den Iran. Begeistert von der fremden Welt des Orients und der iranischen Gastfreundschaft, gelingt es den aufgeschlossenen jungen Männern schnell, Kontakte zu knüpfen. Doch der Iran steht am Scheideweg zwischen Tradition und Moderne – Teheran ist ein Pulverfass und Eddy und Bruno sind mittendrin. Wenn jetzt noch herauskommt, dass Bruno und er viel mehr sind als nur Kollegen, könnte es für sie beide lebensgefährlich werden.

Ponyboy unravels in his Paris apartment. Cut to the bar. Cut to the back room. Ponyboy is strung out and struggling. He is falling into the widening chasm between who he is—trans, electrically so—and the blank canvas his girlfriend, Baby, wants him to be. Cut to Berlin. Ponyboy sinks deeper into drugs and falls for Gabriel, all the while pursued by a photographer hungry for the next hot thing. As his relationships crumble, he overdoses.

Endlich ist es so weit: Feys Eltern und ihr Bruder Elian reisen nach Piriac-sur-Mer, um sie zu besuchen. Noch weiß ihre Familie nichts von der polyamoren Beziehung und womit Fey, Yanis und Pierre ihr Geld verdienen. Die Karten sollen direkt nach der Ankunft offen auf den Tisch gelegt werden, doch dann bringt ein erschütterndes Ereignis alles durcheinander. Yanis und Pierre lernen die anstrengende Seite von Feys Familie kennen. Elian ist ständig unterwegs und lässt sich auf ein aufregendes Abenteuer mit einer Touristin ein, während die Eltern unentwegt streiten.

Es steht eine Vernissage mit Yanis' erotischen Fotografien in Paris an, weswegen Fey, Pierre und Yanis ihr Liebesnest in Piriac-sur-Mer verlassen müssen. Eine aufregende Zeit steht ihnen bevor. Schon vor der Reise werden ihnen einige Einladungen zu exklusiven Events zugeschickt. Im Anschluss soll es weiter nach Deutschland gehen, damit Fey mit ihren Sachen endgültig zu ihren Partnern ziehen kann. Doch schon bei der Ankunft wird ihr Aufenthalt von einer Intrige überschattet, die Yanis' Karriere zerstören könnte.

Os sentimentos de Paul, tão intensos na adolescência, continuam a atormentá-lo na vida adulta: no sul da Itália, ainda jovem, quando se apaixonou pelo marceneiro de seus pais; em Nova York, onde acredita estar sendo traído pela namorada e se interessa pelo parceiro de tênis nas quadras do Central Park; em um campus coberto de neve em New England. Não importa onde ou quando, suas relações são caóticas, transitórias e marcadas pela força do desejo.

♫ Pom pom pompompompom pompom ♫ (C'est la musique de la marche nuptiale pour les non-mélomanes.) Enfin !! À 26 ans, moi, Hardin Andersen, m'apprête à épouser la femme de ma vie à Las Vegas, devant Elvis et toute ma famille. Alors, oui, c'est vrai, certains diront que je sors avec elle depuis quoi ? Deux semaines ? Ils relèveront notre petite différence d'âge (à peine 24 ans).

In 1990, three boys are born, unrelated but intertwined by circumstance: Dayo, Iseul, and Youssef. They are adopted as infants and share a bedroom perched atop a mosque in one of Staten Island’s most diverse and underserved neighborhoods. The three boys are an inseparable trio but conspicuous: Dayo is of Nigerian origin, Iseul is Korean, and Youssef indeterminately Middle Eastern. Youssef shares everything with his brothers except for one secret: He sees a hallucinatory double, an imaginary friend who seems absolutely real, a shape-shifting familiar he calls Brother.

Feys Leben könnte kaum unbedeutender sein. Ständig wird sie übersehen, und in dem Bretagne-Urlaub mit ihren Freunden ist sie das fünfte Rad am Wagen. Doch als sie am Strand auf einen Fremden trifft, ändert sich ihr Schicksal. Magisch angezogen von dem Fotografen und seinem Model betritt Fey eine sinnliche, erotische Welt, in der sie jegliche Hemmungen fallen lässt, um mit leidenschaftlicher Hingabe sich selbst neu zu entdecken.

David Leavitt's second collection of stories further confirms a talent deep and wonderfully creative in its empathy. A Place I've Never Been explores family relationships, friendships, and romantic relationships, among characters whose sexuality is fluid or uncertain—a barrier or under threat. A real estate agent happily married to a woman finds himself in love with another man in "Houses". A man entering a bold new world of gay hookups feels sheltered from the most intimidating attentions by his more attractive, charismatic friend.

Thirty years ago, David Leavitt first appeared on the literary scene with a gutsy story collection that stunned readers and reviewers. Just 23, he was hailed as a prodigy of sorts: “remarkably gifted” (The Washington Post), with “a genius for empathy” (The New York Times Book Review), and “a knowledge of others' lives...that a writer twice his age might envy” (USA Today). “Regardless of age,” wrote the New York Times, “few writers so effortlessly achieve the sense of maturity and earned compassion so evident in these pages.”

Set against the rise of fascism in 1930s Europe, While England Sleeps tells the story of a love affair between Brian Botsford, an upper-class young English writer, and Edward Phelan, an idealistic employee of the London Underground and member of the Communist Party. Though far better educated than Edward, Brian is also far more callow, convinced that his homosexuality is something he will outgrow. Edward, on the other hand, possesses “an unproblematic capacity to accept” both Brian and the unorthodox nature of their love for each other.

Young is a cynical yet fun-loving Korean student who pinballs from home to class to the beds of recent Tinder matches. He and Jaehee, his female best friend and roommate, frequent nearby bars where they push away their anxieties about their love lives, families, and money with rounds of soju and ice-cold Marlboro Reds that they keep in their freezer. Yet over time, even Jaehee leaves Young to settle down, leaving him alone to care for his ailing mother and to find companionship in his relationships with a series of men.

Witzig, wortgewandt und mit einer geballten Ladung Girlpower: Laura Stevens feministischer Roman um drei Freundinnen, einem coolen Diner und einen frechen, bissigen Blog gegen Sexismus und Diskriminierung. Seit Izzy OʼNeil sich erfolgreich gegen einen sexistischen Shitstorm gewehrt hat, läuft es richtig gut für die 18-Jährige. Mit ihren besten Freundinnen Ajita und Meg trifft sie sich regelmäßig in ihrem Lieblings-Diner, um die Themen für ihren gemeinsamen Blog "Bitches bite back" zu besprechen.