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Ken Shakin
Ken Shakin (born 1959 in New York City) is an American writer of underground transgressive fiction. "Love Sucks" was first published in 1997 by Gay Men's Press, a pioneer in LGBT fiction, and "The Cure For Sodomy" in 2006 by Haworth Press. "Grandma Gets Laid" (The Permanent Press 2008) was translated into Russian (Centrepolygraf 2009). Stories from "Real Men Ride Horses" (Gay Men's Press 1999) appear in the anthologies "All Boys Together" (Millivres-Prowler 2000) and "Latter Gay Saints" (Lethe Press 2013). Shakin graduated from the Juilliard School in 1981 with a degree in piano. His vocal compositions have been performed in a variety of venues. The Wandering, an opera based on James Joyce's Ulysses (novel), Ulysses, was first presented by the Irish Embassy in Berlin for Bloomsday 2017. In 2018 the opera was staged at the Ehemaliges Stummfilmkino Delphi, with art direction by Tim Roeloffs. Notes and references "Shakin's darkly humorous and perverse works have earned him an underg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New York City
New York, often called New York City or NYC, is the List of United States cities by population, most populous city in the United States. With a 2020 population of 8,804,190 distributed over , New York City is also the List of United States cities by population density, most densely populated major city in the United States, and is more than twice as populous as second-place Los Angeles. New York City lies at the southern tip of New York (state), New York State, and constitutes the geographical and demographic center of both the Northeast megalopolis and the New York metropolitan area, the largest metropolitan area in the world by urban area, urban landmass. With over 20.1 million people in its metropolitan statistical area and 23.5 million in its combined statistical area as of 2020, New York is one of the world's most populous Megacity, megacities, and over 58 million people live within of the city. New York City is a global city, global Culture of New ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
