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Holiday 1992
1625 Connecticut Avenue, NW, Washington DC 20009 • 202-462-6969
Holiday 1992
Lambda
Rising
gains local,
national
praise!
We knew it all along, but it was good
news when Baltimore's City Paper named
Lambda Rising's Baltimore store the city" s
"Best Alternative Bookstore."
The paper's glowing encomium began
by saluting store manager Jack Garman, not¬
ing that among the locals the store is "also
known affectionately as 'Jack's.'" The kind
of feeling the store evokes was also men¬
tioned: "[Lambda Rising/ Baltimore] also
doubles as an unofficial community center,
providing free newspapers, flyers, a bulletin
board and free phone advice (especially for
visitors and people new to the area).''
The store's readings came in for praise,
too, including "a particularly successful one
(See "Lambda Praised" on page 4)
Jewish Lesbian Fiction,
Jyl Lyn Felman Valerie Miner
remembering, making identity
Siddenly, the bookshelves are filled with Jewish lesbians
exploring their dual identities. For Jyl Lyn Felman, that explo¬
ration begins with food: "Eating chicken is the ritualization of
my identity as a Jew; when I ate only green things from the
earth, I began to forget the smells of my mother" s kitchen and
my grandmother's kitchen. I began to forget that being a Jew
was remembering. Everything."
Felman's first collection of stories, Hot Chicken Wings,
dives deeply into what that Jewish heritage means to her. "Her
language is crisp, vivid, and evocative," wrote Yvonne Zipter
in The Lambda Book Report. Often humorous, they also have an
edge of melancholy. "Jyl Lynn Felman confronts race and
(See "December Readings" on page 4)
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Readings at a Glance
Lambda RIsIng/D.C.
November 17, 6-7:30 p.m.
November 18. 6-7:30 p.m.
November 20. 6-7:30 p.m.
November 21 . 1-3 p.m.
December 5, 7-8:30 p.m.
December 21 . 6-7:30 p.m.
Steve Riel
Neil Miller
Allen Ellenzweig
Charles Silverstein &.
Felice Picano
Jyl Lynn Felman
Valerie Miner
Lambda Rising/ Baltimore
November 20. 6-7:30 p.m. Charles Silverstein 8.
Felice Picano
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Come See Us
Lambda Rising Has Three
Stores to Serve You
Washington D.C.:
1625 Connecticut Ave. NW
10 a.m. — Midnight
Seven Days a Week
(202) 462-6969
Baltimore, MD:
241 W. Chase St.
10 a.m. — 10 p.m.
Seven Days a Week
410-234-0069
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39 Baltimore Ave.
Call for winter hours
302-227-6969
Poet Steve Riel, Homoerotic
Photography editor round out a
busy month
"My friends flow best adlibbing on tiptoe." writes Steve Riel,
"I'm least awkward alone, in a poem." A former Washington,
D.C resident (and Lambda Rising employee). Riel, now with
Amherst University's publications department, has just pub¬
lished his first book of poetry, How to Dream. These are poems of
tenderness and humor, both self-regarding, and fixed on the
world outside, where gay men are guests at weddings, and have
house guests with AIDS. Reviewing How to Dream, Poet Jeffrey
Beam says that "Riel can write a fine line."
Steve Riel will read from and sign How to Dream Tuesday,
November 17, from 6-7:30 p.m. at Lambda
Rising/D.C.
Neil Miller's 1989 book, In Search of
Gay America, was an award winning hit, a
brilliantly humane tour of gay men and les¬
bians changing lives, especially brilliant in
uncovering gay life in small towns and rural
America. Now Miller has taken his journal¬
istic skills out of the country in his new book,
Out in the World: Gay and Lesbian Life
from Buenos Aires to Bangkok.
Miller says that he "didn't start out with
any grand theory I wanted to prove. My
intention was to let my subjects tell their own
stories." While looking at some of the same
topics — sexuality, relationships, politics, so¬
cial patterns, AIDS — Out in the World
demonstra tes that gay and lesbian life abroad
is quite different from these countries. Miller
introduces us to a vivid cast of characters:
lesbian teenagers and gay gold miners in
(See "November Readings" on page
