Böcker av Tobias Maxwell

Jed Springs's high school production of the once controversial play The Children's Hour was a total success in late June 1997; the talk of the community for all the right reasons. But frustrated with America's puritanical roots and its skewed take on human sexuality-and goaded by his lover, Matt, to put up or shut up about it-Jed decides to workshop a radical idea, The Sex Show. By day, he teaches AP language courses and rehearses a production of Cabaret with his students. By night, his new play, The Sex Show, begins to take shape with a cast of fifteen eccentric LA actors. When Steve Paliri, a born-again Christian, is hired to helm Jefferson High School at the start of the new academic year, it becomes quite clear that the Christian right has gained a foothold. Jed and Matt's dream of growing old together, having children, and living happily ever after begins to crumble.From the improvisational to the absurd, The Sex and Dope Show Saga unwinds like a finely tuned timepiece, calibrated to explode at any minute.

A fluke meeting in Paris brings the past into focus for two very different strangers. Gary Silverman, whose encounter with Rafael Jerome in 1949 led to a lifelong sense of loss, and Jeremy Jerome, clueless about his father's misadventure in flashy Hollywood, circa '49, who must deal with the consequences once Gary discloses misalliances.Always the dutiful son, Jeremy is determined to unearth his father's true legacy. He follows his intuition that takes him to Ottawa then Calgary to find decades-old answers to a family secret.Rafael Jerome plumbs the depths of unrequited love along with the deficits that so often unfurl moving forward.

1976 was a productive year for me. I landed small roles in film and television, appeared in a national commercial that brought in decent money, and garnered nothing but positive reviews as I went from one stage contract to another. With such strong momentum behind it, 1977 was sure to bring even more success.Just one thing threatened to derail me: the man I affectionately called Monsieur. The one-year anniversary of our official breakup had come and gone but this breakup looked a lot like a relationship -- a relationship always on the verge of becoming something again, fed by the crazy hope that Monsieur would come to his senses and realize his true love before him.1977: The Year of Leaving Monsieur chronicles the coming to terms with a loss ... the gradual letting go of an obsession.From the author of Thomas (semifinalist, Lambda Awards 2003), The Sex and Dope Show Saga, 1983 -- The Unknown Season, and Homogium.

It was June of 1982. Our apartment on the Upper West Side of Manhattan was converting to co-op apartments. Our fifth-floor walk-up was suddenly the perfect pied-a-terre, with its wooden floors, exposed brick walls and exclusive roof rights. But what to do with our windfall once we flipped the apartment? We were eating breakfast when Coo passed me a copy of Smithsonian Magazine. "Look, Doc, isn''t Santa Fe beautiful?" That was it. The decision to move there was made over bagels and cream cheese. Four months later, on Halloween, we drove out of Manhattan at 2 a.m., our twelve-foot rental truck stuffed to the brim with all of our earthly possessions, heading due west for Santa Fe, New Mexico. Giddy with more hope and excitement than should have been legal, we couldn''t have imagined what lay ahead for us in 1983.About the AuthorTobias Maxwell is the author of two novels: The Sex and Dope Show Saga and Thomas. His undergraduate alma maters include St. John''s College in Annapolis, Maryland and the University of California at Riverside. He has a Master of Science in Counseling from California State University, Sacramento.His articles have appeared in Mom Guess What Newspaper, Art & Understanding and LA Edge magazines.

The breadth of Homogium speaks for itself. From "Homage to Comrades," written for the third LGBT March on Washington, to "Archetypes of War," penned in Europe in 1995 as a witness to the flood of refugees from the Bosnian conflict, to "Dec. 14th, 1980," commemorating John Lennon's Central Park memorial, this poetry collection broaches imagery with skilled language. From the depths of the Grand Canyon to the visceral cold of Toronto winters homage is paid to the anarchy of time, the passing of one's parents, the struggles for identity and the pangs of requited and unrequited love.Tobias Maxwell is the author of two novels, The Sex and Dope Show Saga and Thomas, and a memoir, 1983: The Unknown Season. His undergraduate alma maters include St. John's College in Annapolis, Maryland, and the University of California at Riverside. He has a master of science in counseling from California State University, Sacramento.