Discover Exciting Reads That Will Make You Fa La La La This Holiday Season!
Discover Exciting Reads That Will Make You Fa La La La This Holiday Season!
By PASSPORT Magazine
"Hit your favorite independent bookshop this season to find the perfect gift for everyone on your list. PASSPORT has assembled an eclectic shelf of suggestions for a range of recipients: Pop culture stans, romantic souls, sophisticated intellectual adventurers, and travel fanatics."
- Jim Gladstone
Disco: Music, Movies, and Mania Under the Mirror Ball
Frank DeCaro
$55.00 $51.15"If the soundtrack of your ideal holiday party evokes silver bells and the Hustle more than silver bells and tinsel, share that hopped up Yuletide vibe with loved ones by giving them Frank DeCaro's throwback opus, Disco: Music, Movies and Mania under the Mirror Ball." Read more of Jim Gladstone, PASSPORT Magazine review of the book: bit.ly/3ZgIlcp
Cher: The Memoir, Part One
Cher
$36.00 $33.48"Not to be out-diva'd by her sister in song and cinema Barbra Streisand, whose Yellow Pages-thick reminiscence weighed down last year's sleigh, the one and only Cher delivers the first installment of a two volume lookback, Cher: The Memoir, Part One." Read more of Jim Gladstone, PASSPORT Magazine review of the book: bit.ly/3ZgIlcp
Showmance
Chad Beguelin
$19.00 $17.67"Six-time Tony nominee Chad Beguelin, best known as a book and lyric writer for musicals including Aladdin, Elf, and The Prom, makes a smooth page-to-stage transition with his first novel, the charming romantic comedy Showmance." Read more of Jim Gladstone, PASSPORT Magazine review of the book: bit.ly/3ZgIlcp
The Loves of My Life: A Sex Memoir
Edmund White
$27.99 $26.03"Here's one for somebody who's naughty and nice. Gay eminence Edmund White, now 84, continues his lifelong streak of prolificity and profligacy with a memoir whose subtitle hits like an undercut, philosophically: The Loves of My Life: A Sex Memoir." Read more of Jim Gladstone, PASSPORT Magazine review of the book: bit.ly/3ZgIlcp
Seeing Through: A Chronicle of Sex, Drugs, and Opera
Ricky Ian Gordon
$32.00 $29.76"You needn't be familiar with the work of composer Ricky Ian Gordon to be drawn in by the gravity of his stunning memoir, Seeing Through: A Chronicle of Sex, Drugs, and Opera. But after reading it, you will be able to listen to his works, among them adaptations of The Grapes of Wrath and Langston Hughes' poetry, and any other music, for that matter, with fresh ears." Read more of Jim Gladstone, PASSPORT Magazine review of the book: bit.ly/3ZgIlcp
A Great Gay Book: Stories of Growth, Belonging & Other Queer Possibilities
Ryan Fitzgibbon
$50.00 $46.50"Rescued from the Don't Judge a Book By its Cover (or even its title) Department comes A Great Gay Book: Stories of Growth, Belonging, and Other Queer Possibilities. This collection, with a studiously plain black-and-white cover design that evokes a bland self-help volume, almost begs you to ignore it at first glance." Read more of Jim Gladstone, PASSPORT Magazine review of the book: bit.ly/3ZgIlcp
Atlas of Forgotten Places: Journeys to Abandoned and Deserted Destinations Around the Globe
Travis Elborough
$15.00 $13.95"Give a bookshelf full of possibilities to the most adventurous explorer in your life. Now in handsome new paperback editions, the Unexpected Atlases series by Travis Elborough introduces readers to some of the world's most offbeat locales. The 40 sites in Atlas of Forgotten Places: Journeys to Abandoned and Deserted Destinations Around the Globe range from the cathedral-like preserved sections of the Crystal Palace subway, a Victorian-era network of pedestrian passageways in London; to the ghost town remains of Santa Claus, Arizona. once a tourist attraction where Christmas was celebrated year round." Read more of Jim Gladstone, PASSPORT Magazine review of the book: bit.ly/3ZgIlcp
Life on Svalbard: Finding Home on a Remote Island Near the North Pole
Cecilia Blomdahl
$32.00 $29.76"After a hectic holiday season, it's not unusual to long for a bit of solitude, a getaway, some peace and quiet. You can briefly simulate all of the above by sinking into a comfortable chair with a copy of Cecilia Blomdahl's Life on Svalbard: Finding Home on a Remote Island Near the North Pole." Read more of Jim Gladstone, PASSPORT Magazine review of the book: bit.ly/3ZgIlcp
Wild Chocolate: Across the Americas in Search of Cacao's Soul
Rowan Jacobsen
$28.99 $26.96" No holiday season would feel complete without sweets, but in lieu of cakes or candies, why not give a bonbon of a book. Rowan Jacobsen's Wild Chocolate: Across the Americas in Search of Cacao's Soul is a fascinating Indiana Jones meets Will Wonka adventure." Read more of Jim Gladstone, PASSPORT Magazine review of the book: bit.ly/3ZgIlcp