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Heated Rivalry Tuxedo kiss: Shane Hollander and Ilya Rozanov, played by Connor Storrie   Hudson Williams . Gay America is having a moment. The Heated Rivalry tidal wave came out of nowhere and hit one second after midnight on Thanksgiving. We've been riveted, obsessed and gutted ever since. Outside of small indie films that never reached a wide audience, we've never existed like this on the screen before. Even Brokeback Mountain* never went for it like this. For a great n

Temporary mockup cover for my gay soldiers book 'Don't Fall in Love." I created this for this site years ago, using rudimentary sw as a placeholder. The HarperCollins art department will have the real one in the next month or two. We have finished the edits to Don't Fall in Love, and it went into production at HarperCollins in December 2025. It will be published this fall, 2026. Publication date coming soon. Harper's art department has begun work on the cover, too.

Hmmmmm. I've rarely been so conflicted in a response. And my 4 stars should be 3.5. And I totally think I need to revisit this in 6...

Slate just set about creating a canon of major nonfiction books, by naming The 50 Best Nonfiction Books of the Last 25 Years. Staggered...

Thanks to everyone who voted Parkland into the semi-finals of the Goodreads Choice Award for Best Nonfiction of 2019. The downside: I ask for you to vote again. I appreciate the votes, shares, tweets, etc. Thanks. This round ends tonight at midnight pacific time. I learned you can vote 3 times: once per round, per category. Please use them all. Thanks! https://www.goodreads.com/choiceawards/best-nonfiction-books-2019

So, good news and bad news, since I've been insanely busy book touring and haven't attended to my blog. The good news: Parkland : Birth of a Movement, was longlisted last month for a really prestigious award: the American Library Association's Andrew Carnegie Medal for best nonfiction book of 2019. How cool was that? The year-end awards are just beginning, and gratifying to see Parkland in the mix. Even more cool: I was nominated alongside Toni Morrison! Unfortunately, th

Parkland: Birth of a Movement was nominated as Best Nonfiction Book of 2019 in the Goodreads Choice Awards . Please help by voting in the first round! And posting on social media, or asking friends, etc. Teachers who have used the book, please consider asking your students. This is a huge thing for books. Goodreads has 90 million users--all book lovers. The voting starts with 15 nominees per category, and 3 rounds of voting. Round 1 runs now through Sunday (Nov 10). Y

Motherless Brooklyn is now one of my four favorite books written in my adult lifetime--joining Jesus' Son, Visit from the Goon Squad, and...

I'm going to keep updating this post as a clearinghouse for many of the best interviews, excerpts, media appearances and reviews. Also: Parkland book tour dates/info . Reviews: Washington Post: ' Why Parkland, a year later, is a story of hope .' This review is my favorite. Amazing. The Atlantic: Dave Cullen's New Book on the Parkland Shooting Is Surprisingly Illuminating Chicago Tribune: Parkland changed everything Meeting 9-year-old Matheo in Tucson: Arizona Daily

The Washington Post somehow burrowed into my head, rooted around for all the things I was trying to accomplish in Parkland: Birth of a Movement, and published it as a review this weekend. And the writer, Jill Filipovic , did it in such gorgeous, eloquent prose, I was stunned. Her opening sentence: Here is a sentence you would not expect in a review of a book on one of the country’s most notorious school shootings: “ Parkland ” by Dave Cullen is one of the most uplifting