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memoir: AFTERLIFE OF A KEPT BOY http://bit.ly/AfterKept SW-informed advocate for body autonomy & decrim. Queer lit for your nerves ๐Ÿณ๏ธโ€๐ŸŒˆ

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ยกNUEVA YOL!

12.02.2026 04:46 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
QLP Live Substack (It's 2026, but I'm catching up on 2025 stuff after experiencing the hallucinatory magic of the Rรฉveillon in Rio de Janiero 🇧🇷) Back in September, I had a great talk with Jerry Portwood of the Queer Love Project Substack Live. We discussed the launch of AFTERLIFE OF A KEPT BOY, staying creative and engaged under the reactionary thrall we are living through, and other themes. A bite from the convo about drift in the online environment discussed in the book: I don't remember asking for this digital world. And whether you're from my generationโ€“like Gen Xโ€“or from another generation, we're all figuring it out as we go along.

QLP Live Substack

(It's 2026, but I'm catching up on 2025 stuff after experiencing the hallucinatory magic of the Rรฉveillon in Rio de Janiero ๐Ÿ‡ง๐Ÿ‡ท) Back in September, I had a great talk with Jerry Portwood of the Queer Love Project Substack Live. We discussed the launch of AFTERLIFE OF A KEPT BOY,โ€ฆ

03.01.2026 14:12 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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What queer books deserved more love? Amelia Possanza and Michael Narkunski joined me to talk about the reading we enjoyed this past year and what we're excited about in 2026.

Thank you queer lovers ๐Ÿซถ๐Ÿฝ

Read from s*x workers in the literary space, not just about them (โ€œTrick Litโ€).

Whatโ€™s kept me together this year are those allies who agree that our voices matter, and that maybe even I have a place in the canon ๐Ÿ“š

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22.12.2025 16:29 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

NYPD so corrupt they canโ€™t imagine functioning without a simp mayor.

29.10.2025 00:48 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Miss Manhattan @ย Niagara I joined Vivian Manning-Schaffel (whose riotous essay on Nonnacore excoriates current values around aging), Elena Sheppard, and host Elyssa Maxx Goodman at September's Miss Manhattan, Elyssa's long-running monthly series featuring nonfiction. Read from chapter 8 of AFTERLIFE OF A KEPT BOY, "Are U Available?" which covers my friendship with Dean Johnson. About Dean's core grievance with the music industry: I later attended a screening of the filmย Mondo New Yorkย in which he appeared with his first band, the Weenies.ย I found the filmโ€™s wide-eyed, sensationalist framing of New Yorkโ€™s underground scene tiresome freak-gawking, but Deanโ€™s incendiary performance of the song โ€œFuck Youโ€ woke me right up.

Miss Manhattan @ย Niagara

I joined Vivian Manning-Schaffel (whose riotous essay on Nonnacore excoriates current values around aging), Elena Sheppard, and host Elyssa Maxx Goodman at September's Miss Manhattan, Elyssa's long-running monthly series featuring nonfiction. Read from chapter 8 ofโ€ฆ

29.09.2025 19:50 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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SW was my only redemption- โœ‚๏ธ from my convo w Jerry Portwood of the Queer Love Project ๐Ÿ’“

27.09.2025 20:29 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
NYRS Launch @ Bookย Row Fun times in the rain! From the alley to the store interior of Book Row. Heard some great pieces from Emily Mitchell, Goeff Dembricki, Kevin Gonzalez, and Mani Mekala, who all appear in the inaugural issue of the New York Review of Smut. From the reading: I developed a baseline identity, a bisexual Italian guy from either Brooklyn or Long Island. The customers, locals and tourists alike, ate it up. I modeled my speech on blue-collar types, mechanics who drive in early from Long Island in their vans and go from one job to the next, men who fixed things, men who had the right tools for the job.

NYRS Launch @ Bookย Row

Fun times in the rain! From the alley to the store interior of Book Row. Heard some great pieces from Emily Mitchell, Goeff Dembricki, Kevin Gonzalez, and Mani Mekala, who all appear in the inaugural issue of the New York Review of Smut. From the reading: I developed aโ€ฆ

23.09.2025 02:17 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Toggle between both maybe?

10.09.2025 14:04 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Epic trolling ๐Ÿง‘๐Ÿฝโ€๐Ÿณ๐Ÿ’‹

09.09.2025 01:32 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Queer Discourse Podcast I had a really enjoyable convo with Lou Barrett of Purple Palm Press, who hosts the Queer Discourse podcast. QD also has stellar episodes with authors Torrey Peters and Jason Yamas, check them out too. Lou & I discussed some major themes of AFTERLIFE OF A KEPT BOY: agency, solitude, the Italian-American conditionโ€“and got into the Yoko Ono of it all.

Queer Discourse Podcast

I had a really enjoyable convo with Lou Barrett of Purple Palm Press, who hosts the Queer Discourse podcast. QD also has stellar episodes with authors Torrey Peters and Jason Yamas, check them out too. Lou & I discussed some major themes of AFTERLIFE OF A KEPT BOY: agency,โ€ฆ

08.09.2025 15:56 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Queer Discourse S3 E5 Discussing agency, Italian-American identity, and the Yoko Ono of it all w/ Lou Barrett.

Season 3 Episode 5 of Queer Discourse podcast. Thanks to Lou Barrett for the convo about such major themes as agency, solitude, the Italian-American condition, and the Yoko Ono of it all:

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27.08.2025 23:00 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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"ANDRร‰S" excerpts from ch. 9 of AFTERLIFE OF A KEPT BOY (C&R Press, 2025)

"ANDRร‰S" excerpts from AFTERLIFE OF A KEPT BOY appearing @ The Memoirist: open.substack.com/pub/thememoi...

27.07.2025 02:41 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

The shade at the end, no notes

26.06.2025 22:15 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Felice Picanoโ€™s AMBIDEXTROUSย reviewed A twink-death-forward review of my memoir AFTERLIFE OF A KEPT BOY appears in Issue 005 of The Whitney Review of New Writing. I also appear in the issue as a contributor, reviewing a memoir by the late Felice Picano, whose death in March came while we were actively corresponding. Despite health challenges, Felice was gracious enough to provide me with a blurb for my memoir: Afterlife of a Kept Boy is a sensational read, immediate, engrossing, frank and at times way out there. Corvino's detailing in at least the first part is so intricate and accurate one could reproduce the upper-upper's lunch and dining…

Felice Picanoโ€™s AMBIDEXTROUSย reviewed

A twink-death-forward review of my memoir AFTERLIFE OF A KEPT BOY appears in Issue 005 of The Whitney Review of New Writing. I also appear in the issue as a contributor, reviewing a memoir by the late Felice Picano, whose death in March came while we wereโ€ฆ

15.06.2025 21:22 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

You should be absolutely ashamed of yourself for polishing Torresโ€™ balls like this. Him being an AIPAC shill instead of representing his Bx district is an ongoing betrayal of his constituents. No mention of his spotty record or his controversies in all those words.

12.06.2025 01:43 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
The Twink Death of itย all Only days after its publication, the first review of AFTERLIFE OF A KEPT BOY is out. More than feeling seen I'm feeling clocked! Writing in the Whitney Review of New Writing Issue 005, Journey Streams gets into the twink death narrative of it all. Full transcript of the review: When a twink dies, what else fades? Maybe it's that certain combination of gumption, magnetism, and fearโ€”the fear that one's worth can't be extricated from the body, or the belief in someone else's power to will one into being. But what remains?

The Twink Death of itย all

Only days after its publication, the first review of AFTERLIFE OF A KEPT BOY is out. More than feeling seen I'm feeling clocked! Writing in the Whitney Review of New Writing Issue 005, Journey Streams gets into the twink death narrative of it all. Full transcript of theโ€ฆ

10.06.2025 00:00 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Blueskies! My memoir which just dropped has its 1st review and I swoon ๐Ÿฅน For The Whitney Review, Journey Streams writes, โ€œhis writing is as sumptuous as his story is steeped in turmoilโ€ฆโ€

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bit.ly/AfterKept

21.05.2025 00:39 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Reported for harmful bigotry ;

17.05.2025 00:47 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

โ€œScortโ€ has been used by male s*x workers instead of โ€œescortโ€ to avoid scrutiny so with thereโ€™s that. Seeing as the men on the Sโ€™court are bought and paid for.

10.05.2025 01:20 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Happy Indy Bookshop Day! Advance copies of AFTERLIFE OF A KEPT BOY available at @bgsqd.bsky.social (photo) and Fabulosa In SF
Or walk into your fav queer Indy & order:
Stories LA
@nonbinarian.bsky.social
@hivemindbookstore.bsky.social
@tubbyandcoos.com
@thelittlegayshop.bsky.social

26.04.2025 21:00 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Saw him there too and had me wondering about his put-on bro energyโ€ฆ

19.04.2025 17:31 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Looking forward to it!

20.03.2025 17:18 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Starting tonight Iโ€™m taking my queer liberation memoir AFTERLIFE OF A KEPT BOY on the road.
Now shipping:
www.crpress.org/shop/afterli...

07.03.2025 21:57 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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From the carpet for the LA Premiere of THE BIG JOHNSON, Lola Rocknrollaโ€™s doc feature about QueerCore Party King Drag Queen, my hustler brother Dean Johnson.
@slamdance954.bsky.social

23.02.2025 22:24 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Yea the state is crumbling, but Iโ€™ve got a ๐Ÿณ๏ธโ€๐ŸŒˆ, s*X affirming memoir to launch in 1 MONTH! Pre-order: bit.ly/AfterKept

The gorg @otroedgargomez.bsky.social called it โ€œโ€ฆnothing short of a masterpiece. I swear this book activated something ancient and homosexual in me.โ€ ๐Ÿ™ˆ

15.02.2025 19:05 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
A starry field, an intrusive crow over the full text of Picanoโ€™s blurb. Starts: โ€œAn engrossing read, immediate, engrossing, frank and at times way out thereโ€ฆโ€

A starry field, an intrusive crow over the full text of Picanoโ€™s blurb. Starts: โ€œAn engrossing read, immediate, engrossing, frank and at times way out thereโ€ฆโ€

Heyyyy just got this blurb from #queerlit legend Felice Picano. His 1979 thriller the Lure was the first novel I read w a nuanced ๐Ÿณ๏ธโ€๐ŸŒˆprotagonist, Noel, the titular lure.
FPโ€™s kind words are for my SW memoir, AFTERLIFE OF A KEPT BOY from C&R Press
bit.ly/AfterKept

#writingcommunity #memoir

20.01.2025 20:28 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Real-time queer relationship advice from your fav married x hustler:

19.01.2025 21:44 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

This was the highlight of my mini-tour ๐Ÿ˜ป

02.01.2025 01:17 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

TY TY opening my eyes to your comment = an awesome way to herald a new year!

01.01.2025 17:53 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Against a photo of meteor showers, the authors recaps the year supporting his short story collection and preparing his memoir for publication.

Against a photo of meteor showers, the authors recaps the year supporting his short story collection and preparing his memoir for publication.

Against a photo of a meteor, the author cites his essay included in an issue of Fruitslice magazine.

Against a photo of a meteor, the author cites his essay included in an issue of Fruitslice magazine.

Against a photo of meteor showers, the authors cites two published reviews of other works.

Against a photo of meteor showers, the authors cites two published reviews of other works.

Full wrap cover art for the authorโ€™s upcoming memoir.

Full wrap cover art for the authorโ€™s upcoming memoir.

โ€˜24 Writing Year in Review:
Much ๐Ÿ’“ to the queer venues, bookshops, reviews, and readers.

28.12.2024 17:30 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0