The Naked Civil Servant
The Naked Civil Servant

Author: Quentin Crisp

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 1997-05-01

Total Pages: 209

ISBN-13: 0593512987

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A comical and poignant memoir of a gay man living life as he pleased in the 1930s In 1931, gay liberation was not a movement—it was simply unthinkable. But in that year, Quentin Crisp made the courageous decision to "come out" as a homosexual. This exhibitionist with the henna-dyed hair was harrassed, ridiculed and beaten. Nevertheless, he claimed his right to be himself—whatever the consequences. The Naked Civil Servant is both a comic masterpiece and a unique testament to the resilience of the human spirit. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

Quentin Crisp's Book of Quotations
Quentin Crisp's Book of Quotations

Author: Amy Appleby

Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers

Published: 1989

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13:

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This book dramatically documents the past century of change in gay life through quotations, arranged by subject, from sources as diverse as Aristotle and Woody Allen.

How to Go to the Movies
How to Go to the Movies

Author: Quentin Crisp

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 2003-12-31

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13: 9780312299941

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Since moving to New York City over a decade ago, Quentin Crisp has brought his love of the cinema and his notorious wit together in a series of essays on films and film stars. A veteran film-goer of seventy years who has kept a vigilant eye on changing Hollywood styles and the public tastes that follow, Mr. Crisp discusses both films and stars with his typical panache and dexterity and leads his readers with polite madness to a clear, straightforward moral, proving himself to be an unexpected champion of good sense. Along the way Mr. Crisp shares his personal encounters with the likes of Lillian Gish, John Hurt, David Hockney, Divine, Sting, and Geraldine Page. Prefaced by longer essays on the essence of stardom, the nature of Hollywood, and the deplorable state of that town today, Mr. Crisp's book is a delight to read.

Quentin Crisp
Quentin Crisp

Author: Nigel Kelly

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2011-10-14

Total Pages: 230

ISBN-13: 0786488417

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English writer and raconteur Quentin Crisp (1908-1999) became a celebrity and gay icon at the age of 60 with the publication and televising of his 1968 memoir, The Naked Civil Servant. Unapologetically unconventional, he filled books and articles with his witticisms and opinions on popular culture, and packed theaters worldwide with his one-man show An Evening with Quentin Crisp. This biography chronicles Crisp's life, including his birth in pre-World War I England; his life as a gay youth on the streets of London; his early attempts at writing and job-seeking; his entry into the world of modeling; and his sudden success late in life. With this definitive chronicle, Quentin Crisp and his unique worldview are once again on display.

God's Boy
God's Boy

Author: Andrew Hahn

Publisher:

Published: 2019-11-14

Total Pages: 40

ISBN-13: 9781943977697

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Andrew Hahn's God's Boy grapples with the fallibility of the body and desire in the ex-Christian tradition. A commentary on the church's toxic masculinity, the speaker reconciles his worship between dad/dy and God, seeking a loving mirror for the queer body. These poems deftly negotiate the cartography of absence; they're at once a primer on both solitude and abundance. Hahn queers the church-indoctrinated masculine, stating, "boys are not born w a bud in one hand & a dick in the other / boys are born crying." He shows us there's a space for these boys and finding it feels like Heaven.

Quentin and Philip
Quentin and Philip

Author: Andrew Barrow

Publisher: Pan Macmillan

Published: 2011-08-19

Total Pages: 651

ISBN-13: 1447210239

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This remarkable double biography celebrates the interlocking lives of two of the greatest eccentrics of the 20th century: the brilliant and bizarre Quentin Crisp and the outlandish Philip O'Connor, whose careers first became entwined in Fitzrovia during the Second World War. This is first authoritative account of the personalities behind their artful facades, told by novelist Andrew Barrow, whose life was profoundly affected by both men. 'It is not often that one comes across a truly original book, but here is one' Independent 'O'Connor was a histronic Withnail to Crisp's Ziggy Stardust...In Barrow's deft and cleverly constructed text, the two dance in and out of each other's lives and his own imagination' Guardian 'Beautifully tuned writing - a work of love' Daily Telegraph 'An affectionate and scrupulous portrait of the kind of lives which will never be seen again' Daily Mail

Morbid Tales
Morbid Tales

Author: Quentin S. Crisp

Publisher: Independently Published

Published: 2018-08-20

Total Pages: 242

ISBN-13: 9781718126596

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In these eight immaculately realised strange stories, Quentin S. Crisp delves deep into the decadence of contemporary life. The fresh originality of the tales and their settings: an English country garden in

Resident Alien
Resident Alien

Author: Quentin Crisp

Publisher:

Published: 1998-04

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781555834661

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This delightful gem is based on Crisp's diary in "The New York Native". His affecting words cover topics from politics to prejudice, from the human spirit to the individual obstacles he faces every day in his solitary life.

Remember You're a One-Ball!
Remember You're a One-Ball!

Author: Quentin S. Crisp

Publisher: Chomu Press

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 9781907681004

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Ramsey Blake's first job as a teacher takes him back to the secluded village where he grew up. There he begins to remember the strange world of childhood and comes to realise that the adult world is equally as strange. At the centre of everyday life he discovers a nightmarish game of power and manipulation and is forced to choose sides. He is about to receive the ultimate object lesson in human cruelty. From the author of Morbid Tales, Shrike, and All God's Angels, Beware!, "Remember You're a One-Ball!" is - in its recognition of the suffering of outcasts, of the ugly and the forgotten - a work of great compassion.