JD Doyle Returns to Houston's LGBTQ+ Indie Author Fair, August 1

From JD Doyle:

Yay, it's time for the Houston LGBTQ+ Book Fair. It was organized by author John Merullo, who did a great job last year. I admit last year I was skeptical of whether it would bring people out. Well, I was surprised and impressed. I sold out of all the books I brought by 2:30pm, so I was delighted. Bravo, John!

The Second Annual Houston LGBTQ+ Independent Author Fair will be held at The Montrose Center, 401 Branard Street in Houston on Saturday, August 1, from 10 am to 3 pm.

Since JD sold through his stock of books so quickly last time, we recommend you drop by early!

JD Doyle's 1981—My Gay American Road Trip is available now from QMH Press/New Texture. To purchased the softcover or deluxe hardcover edition from Amazon, click HERE.

Josh Alan Friedman Returns to KNON Dallas on Friday

Josh Alan Friedman plays live and brings All Roads Lead to Great Neck back to KNON, this time for Texas Blues Radio Friday with host Don O!  

Tune in to KNON 89.3 in Dallas, Friday July 17th after at 6:30 pm CDT. 

Or stream the show LIVE via the KNON site, HERE. 

Photo by Wyatt Doyle

All Roads Lead to Great Neck by Josh Alan Friedman is available in softcover and hardcover editions from Wyatt Doyle Books/New Texture. Cover art by Bruce Carleton. Get copies from Amazon HERE.

PopCult Blog on Gil Cohen's ARCHIVE COLLECTION

Longtime pop culture critic Rudy Panucci of PopCult Blog goes Inside/Out over Gil Cohen's Archive Collection:

"This is work that was created under intense deadline pressure. Yet Cohen’s artistic ability and professionalism shine through. He managed to take deliberately sensational stories, filled with lurid details and PG-rated prurient interests, and illustrate them with beautifully-composed and expertly-delineated flash."

Read his full comments (and 20 years of archived reviews!) on the PopCult site HERE.

Buy the SIGNED edition of the Archive Collection with FREE SHIPPING from New Texture HERE.

Buy the trade hardcover of the Archive Collection with FREE SHIPPING from New Texture HERE.

Josh Alan Friedman Plays Live on KNON Dallas TONIGHT

Josh Alan Friedman plays live and brings All Roads Lead to Great Neck to KNON's "Who Cares?" show with DJ Charlie Don't Park! 

Tune in to KNON 89.3 in Dallas, TONIGHT, Tuesday July 14th, at 10 pm CDT.

Or stream the show LIVE via the KNON site, HERE.

Photo by Wyatt Doyle

All Roads Lead to Great Neck by Josh Alan Friedman is available in softcover and hardcover editions from Wyatt Doyle Books/New Texture. Cover art by Bruce Carleton. Get copies from Amazon HERE.

New Poem by Eric Reymond

When There Was Still Time 

before we pulled the membranes off
the grapes, our eyeballs were still tight
in our faces. We looked silently 
at each other and pondered our moms
one of whom had asked the other 
for a quarter ounce of oregano
in a sandwich bag — then she handed 
it to us. Did they know about our 
seasoning hobby? Really, how could
they not? Was this a joke, a test 
of some sort? It was summer.
We were going out soon to explore
the park across the street and look
at things through our new pair 
of green eyeballs — but at that moment
at the kitchen table, with the oregano 
in the sandwich bag, and the grapes 
still membraned, the air conditioner 
weeping was something we couldn’t 
understand or perceive. The air —
even existence itself — smelled
to us green, green, green

—Eric Reymond

© 2026 Eric Reymond, all rights reserved

Eric Reymond's poetry collections are available from New Texture. Click their titles to purchase copies from Amazon: Nimrodia and Sub-Sub Librarian, Extracts on a

All Roads Lead to...Dallas! Josh Alan Friedman at Kettle Art, July 18

Save the date! Mark your calendar! Hire a sitter and give those shoes a shine: 

Saturday, July 18th, at 5 pm, Josh Alan Friedman reads and signs copies of his new novel, All Roads Lead to Great Neck, and will play a short (and rare) guitar set. 

At Kettle Art Gallery, 2650-B Main St., Deep Ellum, Dallas. 

Josh's books and CDs will be available (cash or check only, no plastic).

All Roads Lead to Great Neck by Josh Alan Friedman is available in softcover and hardcover editions from Wyatt Doyle Books/New Texture. Cover art by Bruce Carleton. Get copies from Amazon HERE.

Geeks Love Dogs' Paul Harmon Grabs A HANDFUL OF HELL

"This is, of course, fantastic..."

Thanks to BookTuber Paul Harmon of Geeks Love Dogs, who gets a grip on the Men's Adventure Library's collection of MAM fiction by the late Robert F. Dorr, A Handful of Hell.

This book is differs from some of our other MAM collections in that Dorr's specialty was recounting authentic accounts of battlefield heroism, managing to balance the kind of wild, explosive action the mags' readers demanded with the respect his subjects warranted. While Dorr could write big action and adventure with the very best of his contemporaries (and would go on to a storied career as a writer under his own steam following the MAM era), what sets so much of his work in MAMs apart is not only the writer's gifts for nail-biting adventure storytelling, but his stories' realism and humanity—something not lost on Harmon:

"What's very cool about these is that a lot of them are based on true stories... So if you're a fan of history (and) WWII / Vietnam War-era non-fiction, you get that—with the action told in a way that makes it fun and exciting... It gives you the best of both worlds: history and adventure. Fun to read, and even now, they don't feel dated."

Watch the full review below. Dorr talk begins around 24 minutes in:

 

Expanded hardcover (left) and softcover (right) editions.

A Handful of Hell: Classic War and Adventure Stories by Robert F. Dorr is edited by Robert Deis and Wyatt Doyle. It is available in softcover, expanded hardcover, and ebook editions. Buy them from Amazon HERE.

Great Neck's Own Trav SD on ALL ROADS LEAD TO GREAT NECK

"Much of what he describes is long gone, not just the hippie teenagers cluttering local diners, coffee shops, and pizza parlors, but the businesses themselves. While there is much nostalgia in Friedman’s portrait, there is also something of regret and sadness."

Actor, author, comedian, critic, director, humorist, journalist, m.c., performance artist, playwright, producer, publicist, public speaker, songwriter, variety booker (and Great Neck resident!) Trav S.D. offers a local perspective on Josh Alan Friedman's All Roads Lead to Great Neck.

Trav S.D. in Great Neck

"Great Neck is a 'burb, inhabited by people whose parents and grandparents lived in Manhattan’s immigrant-clogged precincts, some of the very neighborhoods where the book’s teenage characters like to visit to attend rock concerts and cop dope. Philip Roth meets the Beats meets Hunter S. Thompson, with references to Irving Berlin’s 'Yiddle on the Fiddle,' the Electric Flag, and Floyd Patterson? It’s not a bed of roses."

Read his review in its entirety on Trav's site, HERE.

All Roads Lead to Great Neck by Josh Alan Friedman is available in softcover and hardcover editions from Wyatt Doyle Books/New Texture. Cover art by Bruce Carleton. Get copies from Amazon HERE.