These twelve essays span nearly twenty years of research and activism that chronicle one man's search for his family. Together, they explore the concept of personal identity from the perspective of someone who was erased completely by adoption in The State of New York."The Last Invisible Continent is an important book, a superb mixing of the personal and the political." -- The Columbus Free Press

Jesus Christ is Alive and Well and Living in Sweden is an irreverent look at God's new Public Relations Department and the Messiah's latest visitation to a gay couple during a late-night screening of "Forrest Gump" at a SONY® Multiplex in Artificial City, New Jersey.Jesus Christ is Alive and Well and Living in Sweden had its West-Coast premiere during The One-Act Festival at San Francisco State University where it won Highsmith and Theatre Arts Playwriting Awards....

"ANONYMOUS is just terrific." -- Paul RudnickANONYMOUS is a one-act play in which two gay men who have both lost long-time lovers in different ways arrive at mutual attraction in the waiting room of an AIDS clinic. Both have returned for their respective HIV-antibody tests, neither one thinking that he would encounter "someone special" in the midst of such overwhelming personal anxiety and stress.ANONYMOUS had its East-Coast premi...

The story of a guy, a girl, a potato chip truck, and a big country, KEROUWHACKED! is a comedic exultation of the extraordinary friendships that often develop between certain gay men and certain straight women. KEROUWHACKED! is also a celebration of the youthful exuberance that gives us the curiosity, and the freedom, to be lost for days and days and days on the road.KEROUWHACKED! had readings at BUILD, El Teatro de la Esperanza, and The Studio Th...

An exclusive sneak peek inside the creative minds of more than 50 New Yorker cartoonists, celebrating legends and newcomers alike with stunning photography and engaging profiles.For a century, The New Yorker has provided readers with hundreds of thousands of cartoons that humorously (and accurately) encapsulate the cultural happenings in our world. From politics to pop culture, New Yorker cartoonists have found a way to make complex topic...

Examining globally invasive alien birds, the first part of this book provides an account of 32 global avian invasive species (as listed by the Invasive Species Specialist Group, ISSG). It acts as a one stop reference volume; it assesses current invasive status for each bird species, including details of physical description, diet, introduction and invasion pathways, breeding behaviour, natural habitat. It also looks at the environmental impact of each species, as well as current and future...

Seven legendary unproduced screenplays, resurrected and reinvented for BBC Radio 4The annals of movie history are full of lost treasures – spectacular scripts from world-renowned writers that could have been classics, had they only been made. Now, for the first time, some of these forgotten gems have been brought to life, fully realised as vivid, cinematic radio productions. Scripted by major 20th Century writers, they star a host of A-list actors and feature richl...