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Tinselfish: The scripts from season one, Book 2
This novel is experimental fiction. The experiment is to determine whether the typical gay reader can read a novel written in a script format. Conventional wisdom says he can't; common sense says he can. (I read my first screenplay in 8th grade, how hard can it be?) If the typical reader automatically responds "Oh I don't read scripts," he will miss out on a heartwarming story that is very funny in places and will prove the elite correct in thinking he's too dumb to understand scripts. If the typical reader does read the novel, positive reinforcement will reward him with an entertaining experience and an upgrade in his social status. The experiment has already begun. It isn't timed, so take your time and consider the options carefully.
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(The series continues from Book 1.) A microchip manufacturer from Munich amuses himself by taunting and evading federal agents with his sophisticated hacking skills. A friend of O'Keefe's is killed when he learns too much about the hacker. A handsome Persian-American joins the performers at the supper club where Zeph's housemates perform. He becomes romantically involved with one of them until she finds out about his wife and two children. Another of O'Keefe's friends, a closeted mixed-martial-arts fighter on the pro circuit, is stalked by a special-ops veteran who kills a tabloid photographer to keep him from outing the fighter. Plus-a preview of Season Two.
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Duke University's Rare Book, Manuscript and Special Collections Library in 2008 included Tinselfish in its Drewey Wayne Gunn Collection of Gay Male Mysteries and Police Stories.
The novel offers a look at gay West Hollywood in the early 00s. Cafes, bars, and club nights which no longer exist are mentioned and described.
Book 1 includes a detailed, extensively researched account of a closeted Amish farmer's difficult coming-out process in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, in the 70s and 80s. It also includes a chapter which focuses on the gay scene in Philadelphia around Walnut and 13th in the late 80s.
Both books extensively reference classic films noirs of the 40s and 50s and highlight the encrypted gay subtext of many of those films.
Other chapters explore Hollywood history and examine Intolerance, Clara Bow, Busby Berkeley, and Sunset Blvd. and the different film technologies and styles prevalent in each era.
"A Preview of Season Two," an epilogue echoing the style of Arabian Nights in Book 2, weaves a story of near-future Baghdad and Cairo into the continuing present-day story in West Hollywood.
Together, Books 1 and 2 feature 14 murders, 10 aggravated assaults, 18 sex scenes, 32 hot guys in their 20s, 14 chanteuse performances, 7 conversations about existentialism, 2 Amish weddings, a she-male call girl service, a sophisticated hacker, and a celebrity stalker.
The reader will find Tinselfish an entertaining read, occasionally laugh-out-loud funny, but will also find it educational and enlightening in its exploration of different cultures, regions, time frames, topics, and genres.
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(The series continues from Book 1.) A microchip manufacturer from Munich amuses himself by taunting and evading federal agents with his sophisticated hacking skills. A friend of O'Keefe's is killed when he learns too much about the hacker. A handsome Persian-American joins the performers at the supper club where Zeph's housemates perform. He becomes romantically involved with one of them until she finds out about his wife and two children. Another of O'Keefe's friends, a closeted mixed-martial-arts fighter on the pro circuit, is stalked by a special-ops veteran who kills a tabloid photographer to keep him from outing the fighter. Plus-a preview of Season Two.
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Duke University's Rare Book, Manuscript and Special Collections Library in 2008 included Tinselfish in its Drewey Wayne Gunn Collection of Gay Male Mysteries and Police Stories.
The novel offers a look at gay West Hollywood in the early 00s. Cafes, bars, and club nights which no longer exist are mentioned and described.
Book 1 includes a detailed, extensively researched account of a closeted Amish farmer's difficult coming-out process in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, in the 70s and 80s. It also includes a chapter which focuses on the gay scene in Philadelphia around Walnut and 13th in the late 80s.
Both books extensively reference classic films noirs of the 40s and 50s and highlight the encrypted gay subtext of many of those films.
Other chapters explore Hollywood history and examine Intolerance, Clara Bow, Busby Berkeley, and Sunset Blvd. and the different film technologies and styles prevalent in each era.
"A Preview of Season Two," an epilogue echoing the style of Arabian Nights in Book 2, weaves a story of near-future Baghdad and Cairo into the continuing present-day story in West Hollywood.
Together, Books 1 and 2 feature 14 murders, 10 aggravated assaults, 18 sex scenes, 32 hot guys in their 20s, 14 chanteuse performances, 7 conversations about existentialism, 2 Amish weddings, a she-male call girl service, a sophisticated hacker, and a celebrity stalker.
The reader will find Tinselfish an entertaining read, occasionally laugh-out-loud funny, but will also find it educational and enlightening in its exploration of different cultures, regions, time frames, topics, and genres.
354 pages, Paperback
First published April 28, 2007
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John Evan Garvey
9 booksJohn Evan Garvey is an artisanal publisher who loves the whole process of researching and writing a book, typesetting it with unique touches, designing the covers, and creating promotional materials like video trailers, webpages and ads. It's an artistic process that blends visual arts with creative writing and social-media technology to create a something, a gestaltic virtual 'thing' that traditional publishing can't quite match because traditional publishers leave the artisan's soul out of the corporate process. Each book he creates is a canvas, a sculpture, he's painstakingly worked into its final form.
John, currently living in Burbank, California, is originally from southern New Jersey, a small town named Vineland after the Norse Vikings' name for North America, Vinland, and where the grape-juice company, Welch's, was founded in 1869. His upbringing was conservative evangelical, and his educational background reflects that. In his early 30s, he stepped outside of faith, creating a rift between himself and his family and friends, which is still in place. It's because of this dramatic change in world-view and the resultant separation from his extended family that John's writing so often probes the nature of faith and the unfamiliar realm of non-faith. He has a desire to share what he's learned and to continue learning about the mystifying realms of particle physics and the cosmos.
John, currently living in Burbank, California, is originally from southern New Jersey, a small town named Vineland after the Norse Vikings' name for North America, Vinland, and where the grape-juice company, Welch's, was founded in 1869. His upbringing was conservative evangelical, and his educational background reflects that. In his early 30s, he stepped outside of faith, creating a rift between himself and his family and friends, which is still in place. It's because of this dramatic change in world-view and the resultant separation from his extended family that John's writing so often probes the nature of faith and the unfamiliar realm of non-faith. He has a desire to share what he's learned and to continue learning about the mystifying realms of particle physics and the cosmos.
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