Description
In June of 2023, Black Lawrence Press welcomed numerous existing and forthcoming Nomadic Press titles to our catalogue. Encounters with Men was originally selected for publication by Nomadic.
Encounters with Men is a memoir of a lifetime of, as the title suggests, encounters with men: fathers and teachers, friends and lovers, soldiers and cops and criminals, and even a mass murderer. In fact, one of the great mass murderers of the late twentieth century. The stories are shot through with deep love and deep violence, the worst of the AIDS epidemic and the best of human behavior. Like encounters with bears, except with men. Fittingly, the final encounter occurs exclusively online, a stark yet compelling portrait of the new sex work in the digital age.