Showing posts with label BOOKS. Show all posts
Showing posts with label BOOKS. Show all posts

6/3/20

VIRTUAL BOOK CLUB WILL MEET- JUNE 28th- 1pm PST on zoom- reserve now

 presents: 
 FETISH BOOK CLUB  virtual edition  
  our book this month 

The Atrocity Exhibition


 june 28th
1pm PST    

  please donate to attend 

or

  please log in ahead of time to work out all the bugs.  
 rick castro is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting. 
 Topic: virtual book club 
 Time: june 28th, 2020 01:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada) 

 Meeting ID: 817 4259 1902 
 Find your local number: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/knpAbaKVz 

The Atrocity Exhibition

Easily one of the 20th century's most visionary writers, J. G. Ballard lived far ahead of his time. 
Called his "prophetic masterpiece" by many, The Atrocity Exhibition practically lies outside of any literary tradition. Part science fiction, part eerie historical fiction, part pornography,
 its characters adhere to no rules of linearity or stability. 
reissued edition features an introduction by William S. Burroughs.
 

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2/6/20

CHECK OUT-RICK CASTRO: ZONO MACO- MEXICO CITY



 Librería El Insulto, (The Insult Library) is an art collective dedicated to the recovery, conservation, and promotion of an archive on sexual culture in Mexico. It is a political and intellectual response to the absence of a public archive on sexual culture in Mexico where one can go to encounter the erotic past and reactivate emotional relationships with the materials.

Archivo El Insulto focuses its collection on printed material from the twentieth century within Mexican circulation. It currently holds approximately 4,000 publications –books, magazines, and other ephemera–, 500 photographs and postcards, a dozen three-dimensional objects, and it continues to grow.
ZONAMACO ART WEEK
FEBRUARY 5-9, 2020
CENTRO CITIBANAMEX
MEXICO CITY
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8/20/19

FETISH BOOK CLUB- PASOLINI

 PRESENTS 
      FETISH BOOK CLUB 
      HOSTED BY RICK CASTRO   

    THIS MONTH'S SELECTION
PASOLINI
SEPTEMBER 22ND  
1PM 
      $15 COVER 
   
          TOM OF FINLAND HOUSE
       1421 LAVETA TERRACE 
       ECHO PARK CA 90026 
Pier Paolo Pasolini
 (5 March 1922 – 2 November 1975)
 an Italian film director, poet, writer, and intellectual, who also distinguished himself as an actor, journalist, novelist, playwright, and political figure.
 He remains a controversial personality in Italy due to his blunt style and the focus of some of his works on taboo sexual matters, but he is an established major figure in European literature and cinematic arts. His murder prompted an outcry in Italy and its circumstances continue to be a matter of heated debate.
For this month's book club we encourge members to reserch Pasolini and choose any book about 
 his life, films, writings or art.
We will discuss our various findings!
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6/3/19

BOOK CLUB- GHOSTS OF ST. VINCENTS


 PRESENTS   
  FETISH BOOK CLUB 
    HOSTED BY RICK CASTRO  

       THIS MONTH'S SELECTION
GHOSTS OF ST. VINCENT'S
TOM EUBANKS
JULY 14TH
1PM 
         TOM OF FINLAND HOUSE    
 1421 LAVETA TERRACE   
   ECHO PARK CA 90026
     INFO- antebellum@earthlink.net 
In 1849, during a devastating cholera epidemic, 
the Sisters of Charity founded St. Vincent’s Hospital to care
 for the indigent immigrants of Greenwich Village.

     In its 161 years, the hospital played many historical cameos. 
Its staff treated Civil War soldiers and Bohemian poets, survivors of the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire and the Titanic. 

More recently, the hospital’s ER took in victims of the 9/11 attacks and the soaking survivors of “Sully” Sullenberger’s “Miracle on the Hudson.”

     Despite all of this, St. Vincent’s most memorable role may be as
 Ground Zero of the AIDS Crisis.
    
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2/17/19

FETISH BOOK CLUB WILL MEET MARCH 31ST- SPECIAL ADDRESS!

PRESENTS  
   FETISH BOOK CLUB  
  HOSTED BY RICK CASTRO 

        THIS MONTH'S SELECTION
LOST PROPHET: 
THE LIFE & TIMES OF BAYARD RUSTIN
 APRIL 7TH- 1PM 

   
      CROCKER ESTATE
1329 LUCILE AVE
      ECHO PARK CA 90026  
   antebellumgallery.blogspot.com 

One of the most important figures of the American civil rights movement, 
Bayard Rustin taught Martin Luther King Jr. the methods of Gandhi,
 spearheaded the 1963 March on Washington,
 and helped bring the struggle of African Americans to the forefront
 of a nation's consciousness. 
But despite his incontrovertibly integral role in the movement, 
the openly gay Rustin is not the household name 
that many of his activist contemporaries are.
 In exploring history's Lost Prophet, acclaimed historian John D'Emilio 
explains why Rustin's influence was minimized by his peers and
 why his brilliant strategies were not followed, 
or were followed by those he never meant to help.


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1/21/19

FETISH BOOK CLUB FOR FEBRUARY

  
PRESENTS  
  FETISH BOOK CLUB  
  HOSTED BY RICK CASTRO 

      THIS MONTH'S SELECTION
 CALYPSO
FEBRUARY 17TH, 2019
   1PM

        TOM OF FINLAND HOUSE 
   1421 LAVETA TERRACE 
    ECHO PARK CA 90026  

CALYPSO
 a collection of 21 semi-autobiographical essays by David Sedaris.
14 of the 21 essays were previously published in a magazine or newspaper;
 some of these were published under a different title or in a different form.
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12/2/18

FETISH BOOK CLUB WILL MEET JANUARY 20TH, 2019!

 PRESENTS 
  FETISH BOOK CLUB  
 HOSTED BY RICK CASTRO

     THIS MONTH'S SELECTION 
MAKING OSCAR WILDE
BY MICHELE MENDELSSOHN
JANUARY 20, 2019 
 1PM 
  $15 COVER 

     TOM OF FINLAND HOUSE
   1421 LAVETA TERRACE   
 ECHO PARK CA 90026 
In January 1882, Oscar Wilde, an ambitious and highly educated young man with one terrible book of poems and a pretty much unstageable tragedy to his name, landed in America for a 50-date lecture tour.  Not only the smartest universities, but the midwest and the deep south, too: Americans everywhere would have the chance to see a real-life fop. “Anything is better than virtuous obscurity,” Wilde noted on accepting this unlikely gig. Anything? It wouldn’t be long before he had cause to regret these words.
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10/21/18

FETISH BOOK CLUB WILL MEET DECEMBER 2ND

 PRESENTS 
  FETISH BOOK CLUB  
 HOSTED BY RICK CASTRO

     THIS MONTH'S SELECTION 
LA'~BAS
(DOWN THERE)
BY J.K. HUYSMANS

DECEMBER 2ND, 2018 
 1PM 
  $15 COVER 

     TOM OF FINLAND HOUSE
   1421 LAVETA TERRACE   
 ECHO PARK CA 90026 

Là-Bas
 translated as Down There or The Damned,
 is a novel by the French writer Joris-Karl Huysmans, first published in 1891.
 It is Huysmans' most famous work after Ã€ rebours. 
Là-Bas deals with the subject of Satanism in contemporary France,
 and the novel stirred a certain amount of controversy on its first appearance.
 It is the first of Huysmans' books to feature the character Durtal,
 a thinly disguised portrait of the author himself, who would go on to be the protagonist 
of all of Huysmans' subsequent novels: En route, La cathédrale and L'oblat.
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