https://www.jackparlett.com/home daily 0.75 2025-05-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ffb7da579fb3ffdb7643b8/03c200bf-7348-4003-bb6a-0909cfce13d9/s-l1600-4.jpg HOME - Make it stand out FLAMBOYANCE, coming June 2026 Image: Jean Cocteau, ‘Flamboyant Man’ https://www.jackparlett.com/books daily 0.75 2026-05-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ffb7da579fb3ffdb7643b8/370689ea-56a4-4ea0-8fe8-007f1628ea97/Flamboyance+covers.png Books - Flamboyance Granta/Hanover Square Press, 2026 **Booklist Starred Review** Audible Spring 2026 Highlight The Next Big Idea Club May 2026 Must-Read Book The Telegraph Best Books of 2026 so far A book about flamboyant art and the art of flamboyance, Taking in an eclectic array of examples, from Gothic architecture to the orange flowers of Dungeness, Oscar Wilde, James Baldwin, Amy Winehouse, Chappell Roan, and the author’s personal experiences, the book argues for the value of flamboyance as an empowering and creative force. UK Hardback (pre-order) US Hardback https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ffb7da579fb3ffdb7643b8/f8d60539-d39f-4151-b021-9dce94a13ebb/Screenshot+2023-05-02+at+14.48.53.png Books - Fire Island Granta/Hanover Square Press, 2022 Shortlisted for the Polari Book Prize 2022 Best Books of 2022, New Yorker Best Books of 2022, BBC Culture New York Times "Editor's Pick" An Advocate Best LGBTQ+ Book of 2022 A groundbreaking account of New York's Fire Island, chronicling its influence on art, literature, culture and queer liberation over the past century. PRESS & REVIEWS: New York Times, New Yorker, NBC, Newsday, USA Today, Washington Post, New York Daily News, BBC Culture, TLS, The Observer, AnOther, Esquire, The Advocate, Buzzfeed, Culture Whisper, Jezebel, BookRiot, The Quietus, Autostraddle, Hero, Attitude UK Hardback │ UK Paperback US Hardback │ US Paperback https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ffb7da579fb3ffdb7643b8/527405c7-b678-4f9f-b94d-d88eb6c4394c/FIQpIaSXwAEAXgt.jpeg Books - The Poetics of Cruising University of Minnesota Press, 2022 “A thoughtfully researched and rigorous examination of the literary pleasures of sex in public across two centuries. Jack Parlett explores the poetics and politics of cruising, a queerly ekphrastic practice, at the intersections of gender, race, and class. Moving between past and present, words and images, close reading and close looking, The Poetics of Cruising explores the enduring appeal of cruising without nostalgia.” Fiona Anderson, author of Cruising the Dead River: David Wojnarowicz and New York’s Ruined Waterfront REVIEWS: The Gay and Lesbian Review, Arts Fuse Paperback https://www.jackparlett.com/contact- daily 0.75 2025-05-13 https://www.jackparlett.com/other-writing daily 0.75 2025-05-13 https://www.jackparlett.com/poetry daily 0.75 2025-05-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ffb7da579fb3ffdb7643b8/b2746c5c-98c3-49f1-8eff-8fa695b4601d/SBDY+for+website.jpg Poems - Same Blue, Different You Broken Sleep Books, 2020 “Poetry that is able to exist in the contemporary moment but be alive to its own history, linguistically, culturally, politically; surreal and intellectual, pop-cultural and fun, and always grounded in the vital work of the body — this is a great pamphlet” — Andrew McMillan Order Here https://www.jackparlett.com/home-1 daily 1.0 2026-05-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58ffb7da579fb3ffdb7643b8/cc9ce385-b5cb-4db2-8279-25e5d1e71466/JP+Jacket+cropped+author+photo+2026.jpg Home Credit: Alex Krook