“I’D LIKE TO DROP MY TROUSERS TO THE QUEEN/ EVERY SENSIBLE CHILD WILL KNOW WHAT THIS MEANS…” (Morrissey) THE QUEEN IS DEAD: JARHEADS, EGGHEADS, SERIAL KILLERS & BAD SEX is a collection of letters between British writer Mark Simpson and me published last year by Arcadia Books, UK. I haven’t read it. Not out of […]
“I’m disputing the bill / I will sleep in my clothes . . . “
But you know, I wasn’t always a writer whose slim claim to global sub-cult fame rests on the odd offhand mention of his name in The Manila Times; on page 197 of a novel by James McCourt; in a newsgroup list of “all-time favorite characters in Momus songs” (#10, “Steven Zeeland,” #9, a monkey that […]
Postcard from Zeeland: November 2001
“WHAT’S NEW?” “I’ve lived through worse times,” I told a friend last week. “But I was younger then.” FLASHBACK The second week of September 2001 marked the 10 year anniversary of my relationship with THE HAWORTH PRESS. TRAUMA Probably I don’t need to explain how it happened that celebration of this anniversary was preempted by […]
Tanz den Alfred Kinsey
My late friend and mentor David Lloyd, the San Diego beefcake photographer, liked to tell me that I should author a play based on the life of Dr. Alfred Kinsey. On the other side of the Atlantic, Mark Simpson had an idea of his own for a musical based on The Kinsey Report itself! There’s […]
A Night in the Barracks
A NIGHT IN THE BARRACKS — AUTHENTIC ACCOUNTS OF SEX IN THE ARMED FORCES Alex Buchman, Editor A NIGHT IN THE BARRACKS is at last off press. This is a collection of non-fiction erotic stories, most of them set on base, presented by my former Marine pal young Mr. Buchman (that guy pictured on the […]
Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell
Also, hot off the press, the import-only THE QUEEN IS DEAD: JARHEADS, EGGHEADS, SERIAL KILLERS & BAD SEX This experimental epistolary collaboration between Mark Simpson and me has, if nothing else, violated convention. Heinously. As one reviewer put it, kindly: “Quite why a pair of armchair philosophers writing about trannies, military men’s bottoms, and cats […]
Military Trade
Later this year Haworth will be issuing an enhanced version of MILITARY TRADE. Whether or not you opt to buy a copy, be sure to check out the newly expanded photo section, which features some choice military erotica images collected by Kinsey himself. “Steven Zeeland does for gender study what others have to settle for […]
A Night in the Barracks – Coming Late December
COMING LATE DECEMBER 2000 FROM SOUTHERN TIER EDITIONS: A NIGHT IN THE BARRACKS AUTHENTIC ACCOUNTS OF SEX IN THE ARMED FORCES Alex Buchman, Editor A Night in the Barracks is at last nearing publication. This “erotica” book is edited by my friend young Mr. Buchman (that guy pictured on the cover of The Masculine Marine). […]
