Overview
Boyd McDonald had the makings of a successful career in the 1950s but after 20 years of resentful conformity and worsening alcoholism, McDonald dried out, pawned all of his suits and went on welfare. It was then that his life truly began. From a tiny room in a New York hotel, McDonald published Straight to Hell, a series of chapbooks collecting readers' 'true homosexual experiences'. Through interviews and images, this book tells McDonald's story as a key figure in gay underground history and pioneer of the queer zine scene.
Full Product Details
Author: William E. Jones
Publisher: We Heard You Like Books
Imprint: We Heard You Like Books
Dimensions:
Width: 15.80cm
, Height: 2.00cm
, Length: 23.80cm
Weight: 0.499kg
ISBN: 9780996421812
ISBN 10: 0996421815
Pages: 200
Publication Date: 22 September 2016
Audience:
General/trade
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General
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Available To Order
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Reviews
Move over Maxwell Perkins, here s another editor who deserves to be more famous than you. Boyd McDonald may have been an alcoholic lunatic who masturbated chronically while encouraging readers to send in endless descriptions of their sex lives, but he remained pure in spirit. -- John Waters Move over Maxwell Perkins, here s another editor who deserves to be more famous than you. Boyd McDonald may have been an alcoholic lunatic who masturbated chronically while encouraging readers to send in endless descriptions of their sex lives but he remained pure in spirit. -John Waters
Move over Maxwell Perkins, here s another editor who deserves to be more famous than you. Boyd McDonald may have been an alcoholic lunatic who masturbated chronically while encouraging readers to send in endless descriptions of their sex lives but he remained pure in spirit. -John Waters
Move over Maxwell Perkins, here s another editor who deserves to be more famous than you. Boyd McDonald may have been an alcoholic lunatic who masturbated chronically while encouraging readers to send in endless descriptions of their sex lives, but he remained pure in spirit. -- John Waters
Author Information
William E. Jones is an artist, filmmaker, and writer who was born in Ohio and now lives in Los Angeles. He has made two feature length films, Massillon (1991) and Finished (1997) which won a Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award, the documentary Is It Really So Strange? (2004). His work has been the subject of retrospectives at Tate Modern and Anthology Film Archives, and has been included in the 1993 and 2008 Whitney Biennials. His writing has appeared in Artforum, Bidoun, Frieze and Little Joe. His book Imitation of Christ was named one of the best photo books of 2013 by Time magazine.
