Debut novel in ongoing 25th Anniversary Edition Series
LOS ANGELES—March 17, 2020—ReQueered Tales is honored to return Stan Leventhal’s remarkable debut novel “MOUNTAIN CLIMBING IN SHERIDAN SQUARE” – a slice of New York life in the 1980s – to print.
“Stan Leventhal instantly transported me back to 1980s Manhattan. I was there too. His brilliantly captured story was like dipping madeleine into a teacup.” – Joseph Yvon, Goodreads
A series of discrete episodes among friends provide snapshots of one gay man’s life. There are parties, concerts, dinners with everyday life – and death – interwoven in the rich story-telling. An actress, a painter, a set designer, a writer – all sweating and surviving in Manhattan, all scoring their first successes. Part autobiography and part documentary, artfully written, it details the lives of these creative people. Young and professional, they know there is more to life than money. There is trust and the sort of love that trades in deeds of kindness.
“Stan Leventhal was wonderful company: warm, honest, curious,
engaging, and human. Mountain Climbing in Sheridan Square is the next best thing to hanging out with him.” – Christopher Bram, Gods and Monsters
“Stan was a literary activist who always gave to, built and endorsed literature and writers. On this Sunday morning, all these years later, I can see still see Stan in his apartment window on Christopher Street, next door to the Stonewall Inn, overlooking Sheridan Square as he typed away.” – Michele Karlsberg, LGBTQ publicist and friend
Stan Leventhal, author, editor, and publisher, lived in New York City in the 1980s through 1995 where he died of AIDS. Fondly remembered as a generous, genuine and passionate advocate for social causes and other writers, he was nominated for a Lambda Literary Award three times. Stan’s message to his readers: “Literature is crucial to our lives; reading is fun.”
Leventhal’s debut novel was a Lambda Literary Awards Finalist in 1988. This new edition features a 2020 foreword by Christopher Bram.
MOUNTAIN CLIMBING IN SHERIDAN SQUARE ebook:
Amazon: https://amzn.to/3926ir4
Kobo: https://bit.ly/3auAhc1
Nook: https://bit.ly/3bsPNFw
Apple: https://apple.co/2Uppudw
US $5.95 • CAN $7.95 • UK £4.95 • EU €5.95 • AU $8.95
Quality Trade Paperback, 196 pgs:
ISBN 978-1-951092-21-4
https://amzn.to/2ULZ8RZ
US $16.95 • CAN $21.95 • UK £13.95
