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In this unique oral biography, Bachardy recounts his astonishing story, providing illuminating recollections of celebrity portrait sittings and revelations about his thirty-year relationship with Christopher Isherwood. From their meeting in the 1950s until Isherwood's death in 1986, theirs was a legendary love story, courageous and uncompromising for its time, and remarkable in any era for the creative collaborations and art it continues to inspire.

In this funny and poignant memoir and cultural history, the television personality, columnist, and author of Drag pays homage to Lou Reed’s groundbreaking album Transformer on its fiftieth anniversary and recalls its influence on his coming of age and coming out through glam rock. In November...

Este libro reúne los mejores y más celebrados escritos de Simón Elías: piezas breves y bravas, escritas, en muchos casos, a veinte grados bajo cero, y que dan cuenta de sus pareceres sobre la vida en general y de sus andanzas por los caminos en particular. A medio camino entre la crónica de viaje, la reflexión sobre la escalada, el golferío nocturno, la filosofía básica y la épica del deporte de nulo rendimiento estos textos harán las delicias no solo de aficionados a la montaña, sino de cualquier aficionado a pasar un buen rato con un libro.