Manuel Betancourt Hello Stranger review, recensie en informatie memoir van de Colombiaanse schrijver. Op 14 januari 2025 verschijnt bij Catapult de memoir van de queer schrijver uit Colombia, Manuel Betancourt. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de auteur en over de uitgave. Een Nederlandse vertaling van het boek is niet verkrijgbaar.
Manuel Betancourt Hello Stranger review, recensie en informatie
- “Betancourt is funny, warm, and brilliant. Reading this collection of essays is like sitting down with your most well-read friend, firing away with connections that show how much our experiences have in common across time and space.” (Booklist)
- “Betancourt is a fluid stylist, demonstrating his intelligence in investigating subject matter that most readers—queer or otherwise—can relate to. As a witty, intuitive observer of human behavior, he validates rather than demonizes the delicious recklessness of meeting strangers and the intimate thrill of the anonymous encounter . . . A rewarding and insightful exploration of risk, desire, and anonymity.” (Kirkus Reviews)
Hello Stranger
Musings on Modern Intimacies
- Auteur: Manuel Betancourt (Colombia)
- Soort boek: memoir, queer boek
- Taal: Engels
- Uitgever: Catapult
- Verschijnt: 14 januari 2025
- Omvang: 240 pagina’s
- Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook
- Prijs: $ 27,00 / $ 14,99
- Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol
Flaptekst van de memoir van Manuel Betancourt
Hello Stranger is a book about chance encounters—at a bar, through social media, in a bathhouse—and what a stranger can reveal about who we are and who we could still yet be. A stranger, after all, is a site of endless possibilities.
As Manuel Betancourt looks back on his past relationships, he turns to characters and narratives that helped him question notions of what monogamy and coupledom (and relationships and marriage) can and should look like. From films like Before Sunrise and Cruising to the poetry of Frank O’Hara and the musicals of Stephen Sondheim, Betancourt uses pop culture to make sense of the alluring prospect of forging intimacies with strangers—even, or especially, the strangers within ourselves.
At once a personal excavation and a broad cultural critique, Betancourt grapples with everything from online sexting and real-life cruising to divorces and throuples. Hello Stranger examines the intimacies we crave, value, and oftentimes destroy with rote familiarity.
Manuel Betancourt is a queer Colombian culture writer and film critic. His work has been featured in The New York Times, BuzzFeed Reader, Los Angeles Times, Film Quarterly, Los Angeles Review of Books and GQ Style, among others. Manuel is the author of The Male Gazed (Catapult, 2023), Judy Garland’s Judy at Carnegie Hall (Bloomsbury Press, 2020), and a contributing writer to the Eisner Award-nominated graphic novel series, The Cardboard Kingdom.
