His "Tales of The City" series has sold more than 6m copies, been translated into ten languages, spawned three television miniseries and most recently a musical, the score for which was composed by Jake Shears and John Garden. He also wrote the...

"I’m outraged that there are currently major candidates for President of the United States who are using homophobia to rally their base," said the Tales of the City author. "I’m pissed off at my Republican family back in North Carolina, several of whom...

"I’m outraged that there are currently major candidates for President of the United States who are using homophobia to rally their base," said the Tales of the City author. "I’m pissed off at my Republican family back in North Carolina, several of whom...

"I’m outraged that there are currently major candidates for President of the United States who are using homophobia to rally their base. I’m pissed off at my Republican family back in North Carolina, several of whom came to my wedding, but who went...

In the 1950s, James Baldwin and Christopher Isherwood (as well as Williams and Ginsberg) started publishing. Their careers continued to bloom in the 1960s, as playwrights Edward Albee and Mart Crowley added their voices. The 1970s saw a major boom in...

We hosted events with the biggest names in literature such as Edmund White, David Leavitt, Pearl Cleage, Bret Easton Ellis, David Sedaris, Augusten Burroughs, Armistead Maupin, Christopher Rice, Josh Kilmer-Turcell, Jackie Collins, Gregory Maguire and...

At Christmas we treated ourselves to the first two series on DVD - Tales of the City and More Tales of the City - and we've just received from the USA the DVDs of Further Tales of the City which have yet to be watched. Anyway, I've been noticing some...

It’s been a challenging experience – but an enjoyable one. For me, one of the biggest parts of writing fiction is understanding who the characters are. In order to write something interesting about a character, I need to know to at least some level of...

Now the tragedy finds itself at the center of The Hunter, the latest Wyatt Hunt mystery by Davis author John Lescroart. While the first two Hunt books followed the P.I. as he formed his agency and solved other people's whodunits, The Hunter finds him...

Turning for the first time to one of the books between covers, as opposed to reading the original San Francisco Chronicle serial version of Tales of the City, one is struck by the quote with which the book opens. "It's an odd thing, but anyone who...

Creek, as the spaceship flies. But the roadhouse grounds were underwater after torrential rain. Holiday park owner Arc Vanderzalm said 24 rooms were taken for the three-day conference and the camping site would have been full. IT WAS labelled the "pub...

These are a real treat for any reader, I am certainly looking forward to revisitng them next year as some Maupin madness will be occuring I do believe. So what do you have to do in order to win such a collection of joy? Simply tell me you favourite...