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Espinoza candidly inserts himself into this striking examination with memories of his own cruising adventures and segments of stimulating commentary on gay liberation and the tenets of stealthy sexuality. Provocative, curious, and noteworthy. --Kirkus Reviews Praise for Alex Espinoza: Espinoza is certainly a writer worth keeping an eye out for. - San Francisco Chronicle Alex Espinoza is poised to become the Faulkner of his own haunted landscape. - Susan Straight Through it all, hard and soft, Espinoza is unflinching, cool, unsentimental, ...incapable of false or flimsy storytelling. His style is ominous, layered and clean -- reminiscent of a Hieronymus Bosch painting. - Los Angeles Times Alex Espinoza writes in the grand style... There is nowhere this gifted writer can't go. We are lucky to go along with him. -- Luis Alberto Urrea

Praise for Alex Espinoza: Espinoza is certainly a writer worth keeping an eye out for. - San Francisco Chronicle Alex Espinoza is poised to become the Faulkner of his own haunted landscape. - Susan Straight Through it all, hard and soft, Espinoza is unflinching, cool, unsentimental, ...incapable of false or flimsy storytelling. His style is ominous, layered and clean -- reminiscent of a Hieronymus Bosch painting. - Los Angeles Times Alex Espinoza writes in the grand style... There is nowhere this gifted writer can't go. We are lucky to go along with him. -- Luis Alberto Urrea

Espinoza candidly inserts himself into this striking examination with memories of his own cruising adventures and segments of stimulating commentary on gay liberation and the tenets of stealthy sexuality. Provocative, curious, and noteworthy. --Kirkus Reviews What makes this book so appealing is the way Espinoza combines his own experiences of cruising with a cogent analysis of the role of cruising... and he writes beautifully. Recommended for LGBT and contemporary culture collections. --Library Journal Espinoza explores the ways in which men have learned to navigate the strict policing of same-sex intimacy. But woven throughout is a deeply personal account of his own experiences with cruising. The effect is a constant regrounding of a topic that could have otherwise been rendered completely academic, a reminder to readers that this practice is at its core deeply human. --James Feder, Kirkus Reviews Cruising is touching, resonant, and deeply felt... Espinoza's book invites us to think about the right to freedom of sexual expression and where it fits in within the larger aims of the LGBTQ community. --Michael Nava, Los Angeles Review of Books Memoir is the powerful heart of Espinoza's book, the places where he makes us feel the power of cruising as what he calls a 'cultural identifier' of gay experience, the act that marks us as constitutionally different from straight people. --John Birdsall, Los Angeles Times Just in time for Pride Month, this is a fascinating history of cruising as a pillar of gay culture. --Sarah Nielson, The Brooklyn Rail For a raunchier yet no less incisive take on the intricacies of gay sex, romance and search for community, Alex Espinoza's Cruising: An Intimate History of a Radical Pastime takes readers on an inspired, greatest-hits tour of public bathrooms, bathhouses and wooded areas in cities the world over to reveal the scintillating backstory of anonymous gay sex and its evolution, from Greek antiquity to the present. --Alexis BurlingSan Francisco Chronicle

Just in time for Pride Month, this is a fascinating history of cruising as a pillar of gay culture. --The Brooklyn Rail Espinoza candidly inserts himself into this striking examination with memories of his own cruising adventures and segments of stimulating commentary on gay liberation and the tenets of stealthy sexuality. Provocative, curious, and noteworthy. --Kirkus Reviews

For a raunchier yet no less incisive take on the intricacies of gay sex, romance and search for community, Alex Espinoza's Cruising: An Intimate History of a Radical Pastime takes readers on an inspired, greatest-hits tour of public bathrooms, bathhouses and wooded areas in cities the world over to reveal the scintillating backstory of anonymous gay sex and its evolution, from Greek antiquity to the present. --San Francisco Chronicle Espinoza explores the ways in which men have learned to navigate the strict policing of same-sex intimacy. But woven throughout is a deeply personal account of his own experiences with cruising. The effect is a constant regrounding of a topic that could have otherwise been rendered completely academic, a reminder to readers that this practice is at its core deeply human. --James Feder, Kirkus Reviews Cruising is touching, resonant, and deeply felt... Espinoza's book invites us to think about the right to freedom of sexual expression and where it fits in within the larger aims of the LGBTQ community. --Michael Nava, Los Angeles Review of Books What makes this book so appealing is the way Espinoza combines his own experiences of cruising with a cogent analysis of the role of cruising... and he writes beautifully. Recommended for LGBT and contemporary culture collections. --Library Journal Just in time for Pride Month, this is a fascinating history of cruising as a pillar of gay culture. --The Brooklyn Rail Espinoza candidly inserts himself into this striking examination with memories of his own cruising adventures and segments of stimulating commentary on gay liberation and the tenets of stealthy sexuality. Provocative, curious, and noteworthy. --Kirkus Reviews

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Alex Espinoza is the author of the novels The Five Acts of Diego Leónand Still Water Saints, a Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writers Selection. His writing has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, the New York Times Magazine, NPR, Salon, the Los Angeles Review of Books, Virginia Quarterly Review, and elsewhere. His awards include a 2014 Fellowship in Prose from the National Endowment for the Arts and a 2014 American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation for The Five Acts of Diego León. He lives in Los Angeles.

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