From the critically acclaimed author of Fire Island: A Queer History, comes an effervescent exploration of the concept of flamboyance that weaves compelling personal memoir and cultural criticism.
Jack Parlett is the author of three books: The Poetics of Cruising: Queer Visual Culture from Whitman to Grindr (a monograph with University of Minnesota Press), Same Blue, Different You (a poetry pamphlet with Broken Sleep Books), and Fire Island: A Queer History (Granta), which was named one of the Best Books of 2022 by the New Yorker and shortlisted for the Polari Book Prize 2023. His writing has appeared in the New Yorker, Document Journal, BBC Culture, Boston Review, Literary Hub and Poetry London. He is currently working on a new non-fiction book about flamboyance.
