The Short Stacks 13: Robert W. Fieseler//Tinderbox
We're joined today by Robert W. Fieseler author of June The Stacks Book Club Pick, Tinderbox: The Untold Story of the Up Stairs Lounge Fire and the Rise of Gay Liberation. In our conversation we get to know Fieseler, how this tragic event came into his life, where he found his sources, and the toll writing about trauma can have on an author. Our conversation is spoiler free, and serves as a great introduction for our TSBC conversation on Tinderbox, that will air on June 5th.
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Everything we talk about on today’s episode can be found below in the show notes and on Bookshop.org and Amazon
Tinderbox: The Untold Story of the Up Stairs Lounge Fire and the Rise of Gay Liberation by Robert W. Fieseler
The Edgar Awards (Fact Crime Winner)
The Lambda Literary Award (Judith A. Markowitz Award for Emerging LGBTQ Writers)
The Upstairs Lounge Arson by Clayton Delery-Edwards
Titanic (James Cameron, 1997)
The Books of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin
The Hanish Cycle by Ursula K. Le Guin
The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin
The Word for World is Forest by Ursula K. Le Guin
The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin
The Complete Orsinia by Ursula K. Le Guin
The Gay Revolution by Lillian Faderman
The Boys of Fairy Town by Jim Elledge
Gay New York by George Chauncey
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