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‘Sex Terror’ Now Available on Kindle — Sweet Dreams.

SEX TERROR Erotic Misadventures in Pop Culture Mark Simpson This book will change the way you think about sex. It may even put you off it altogether. NOW AVAILABLE ON KINDLE In his full-frontal follow-up to his widely acclaimed It’s a Queer World, Mark Simpson dispenses with the monkey business of sexuality and gets to …

January 26, 2013 – 12:26 pm | By Mark Simpson | Posted in announcement, comedy, journalism, Sex Terror | Tagged kindle, Sex Terror | Comments (2)

Gratuitous Simpson

If you’re a member of Amazon Prime in the US, UK, France or Germany and own a Kindle you can e-borrow Metrosexy, Saint Morrissey and Male Impersonators for nowt. (Though Amazon promises to bung me a couple of dollars for each lend.)

October 28, 2012 – 2:07 pm | By Mark Simpson | Posted in announcement | Tagged Amazon Kindle, Male Impersonators, Metrosexy, Saint Morrissey | Comments (1)

Today’s men are obsessed with their bodies — but is that so bad?

Yours truly in today’s Guardian.

January 31, 2012 – 9:20 am | By Mark Simpson | Posted in announcement, metrosexual, metrosexy | Tagged male objectification, Metrosexy, The Guardian | Comments Off

Gifting ‘Metrosexy’, ‘St Moz’ or ‘Male Impersonators’ on Kindle

If you have their email address you can gift a friend — or an enemy — a copy of a Simpson Kindle book. (At the moment this service is only available from Amazon.com. Gift vouchers are currently the only way to gift a Kindle book at Amazon.co.uk.)

January 3, 2012 – 4:48 pm | By Mark Simpson | Posted in announcement | Tagged Gifting Kindle books, Metrosexy | Comments Off

‘Male Impersonators’ Gets Digitally Dressed Up: now available on Kindle

Tom Cruise is reportedly working on a script for a sequel to Top Gun. In case he’s mislaid his well-thumbed original copy of Male Impersonators: Men Performing Masculinity, the book that outed the flaming queerness of the original movie, he needn’t worry. Tom can now download it in an instant as a Kindle eBook, in …

December 15, 2011 – 5:22 pm | By Mark Simpson | Posted in announcement, Male Impersonators | Tagged e-book, Male Impersonators, male objectification, tom cruise, Top Gun | Comments (5)

A Taste of Honey is still sweet half a century on

Hard to believe, but this year Tony Richardson’s wide-eyed 1961 ‘neo-realist’ masterpiece A Taste of Honey, based on a play by Salford playwright prodigy Shelagh Delaney is half a century old. Filmed on location in lyrical black and white when Manchester was still connected to its chimney-stacked ‘dark Satanic’ past, it tells the story of …

November 1, 2011 – 1:55 pm | By Mark Simpson | Posted in announcement | Tagged A Taste of Honey, homotopia, Saint Morrissey, Tony Richardson, Victim | Comments (3)

Out magazine’s tribute to Mark Simpson

Out magazine have run a tribute to my work for them over the years here. I’m very touched. And it’s richly deserved, of course. But I can’t help but wonder: did I die?

October 22, 2011 – 6:01 pm | By Mark Simpson | Posted in announcement | Tagged Mark Simpson, out magazine | Comments Off

Idling into the Future

Almost hidden in a forest of glossy beards, the brand spanking new issue of UK GQ Style (not available, I think, online) carries a feature by yours truly on the increasing popularity of the micro-blogging site Tumblr — which today officially overhauled Wikipedia in terms of page-views — and the idle rise of the ‘e-flaneur’. …