NAKED AND ISOLATED
An Aggregated Reading List
Here in London, where Naked Boys Reading began, we’re ALREADY bored of washing our hands 10000x a day, and our premium PornHub subscription feels LACKING in textuality. The Covid-19 Emergency has meant that we have to rethink modes of sociality and offer other means of connection (we aren’t up for this “social distancing” rhetoric!).
We have decided to aggregate a list of Top 5 Things to Read While Naked and Isolated.
We’ve asked our friends, lovers, and enemies to offer a top 5 that might ease you through your self-isolation.
The engagement requirements are simple:
- Pick a text (order it and support literary economy),
- Get naked (you’re alone, go on!),
- Read (that’s an order, Nerd).
Brian | @bamullinspeaks
NBR Curator and Reader, Lover
- “How to Have Promiscuity in an Epidemic,” Douglas Crimp (from Melancholia & Moralism)
- Cloud Nine, Caryl Churchill
- Weight of the Earth: The Tape Journals of David Wojnarowicz
- Don’t Call Us Dead: Poems, Danez Smith
- The (New) Joy of Gay Sex, Dr. Charles Silverstein & Felice Picano
Dr Sharon Husbands | @drsharonhusbands
Founding Host of Naked Boys Reading, Enemy
A. House | @house_ap / @aho
NBR Reader, Lover
- Homosexuality, Power and Politics, ed. by The Gay Left Collective
- Sexual Outlaw, John Rechy
- The Farewell Symphony, Edmund White
- How to Survive a Plague, David France
- Upstream, Mary Oliver
MJ Lyons | @queer_mikey
Producer of Naked Boys Reading Toronto, author of “Murder at the World’s Fair”, Lover
Adam Zmith |@AdamZmith
NBR Reader, Lover
Sebastian | @historical.homos
NBR Curator, Lover
- The Persian Boy, Mary Renault
- Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf
- The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why it Matters, Priya Parker
- Selfie: How the West Became Self-Obsessed, Will Storr
- Homintern: How Gay Culture Liberated the Modern World, Gregory Woods
Chris | @cmccrudden
NBR reader, author, Lover
Support your local bookshop in these times of isolation. You can find all these titles and more on www.hive.co.uk
- A Suitable Boy, Vikram Seth
- Good Behaviour, Mollie Keane
- The Abbess of Crewe, Muriel Spark
- Sorcerer to the Crown, Zen Cho
- Battlestar Suburbia, Chris McCrudden (a cheeky plug)
Josh Cheon | @darkentriesrecords
Owner of Dark Entries Records & NBR Curator, Lover
- No Ashes in the Fire: Coming of Age Black and Free in America, Darnell L Moore
- I Remember, Joe Brainard
- Mechanical Fantasy Box: The Homoerotic Journals of Patrick Cowley,
- Patrick Cowley
- The Lost Autobiography of Samuel Steward, Samuel Steward
- Walking Through Clear Water in a Pool Painted Black, Cookie Mueller
Patrick Cash
NBR Curator & Reader, Lover
