Legendary author at Glad Day Bookshop and Yorkville Library
Felice Picano has been writing bestsellers since the mid-1970s. His first novel, Smart as a Devil, a horror tale, was nominated for the 1976 PEN/Hemingway Award. Since 1979, he has been writing explicitly gay-themed works – more than thirty books of novels, short stories, anthologies and memoirs. Now in his mid-70s, there seems no stopping him. His 12th novel, Justify My Sins, was released earlier this year.
ReQueered Tales is honoured and delighted to be reissuing four of his most celebrated works: Onyx (2001), Like People in History (1995), The Book of Lies (1999) and the short story collection Slashed to Ribbons in Defense of Love (1983).
In a tour of eastern US states, Quebec and Ontario, Felice has been reading from Justify My Sins in solo and multi-author events. He was been joined by Trebor Healey (A Horse Named Sorrow) on October 30 at the oldest surviving gay book store in North America, Glad Day in Toronto. Trebor read from his latest book of short stories, Falling, and Felice from Onyx.
The next night was a solo gig at Toronto Public Library’s Yorkville branch (one of the original early 1900s Carnegie libraries) which happens to be the city’s largest LGBTQ collection of circulating books. There was a good crowd, despite the rain and it being Hallowe’en. Felice read bits from Justify My Sins and did a powerpoint presentation about gays and lesbians in Hollywood from 1930 to the present day.