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Philip Rappaport on Introducing Quintessential LGBT Books to a New Generation of Readers

Open Road Media, shepherded by Director of Publishing Partnerships Philip Rappaport, has been actively publishing classic LGBT titles in the

This post highlights lgbtq books to which I acquired digital rights for Open Road. Many were titles I had sold their original editions at #Librarie L'Androgyne in Montreal.

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Gordon Merrick (1916–1988) was an actor, television writer, and journalist. Merrick was one of the first authors to write about gay themes for a mass audience. He wrote fourteen books, including the beloved Peter & Charlie Trilogy. The Lord Won’t Mind was the first book i purchased at #Librairie L'Androgyne. It was an accomplishment and a thrill to acquire the digital rights to Merrick's oeuvre.

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Three lyrical and unforgettable novels from the National Book Award–winning author of The Women of Brewster Place. After winning both the National Book Award and the American Book Award for her now iconic debut novel, The Women of Brewster Place, which was later made into a TV miniseries starring Oprah Winfrey, Gloria Naylor continued to garner acclaim as one of the most original voices in twentieth-century American literature with novels such as Mama Day, Linden Hills, and Bailey’s Cafe.

Mama Day is one of Naylor’s “richest and most complex” novels (Providence Journal). “[A] wonderful novel, full of spirit and sass and wisdom, and completely realized.” —The Washington Post

Linden Hills: “Every page contains a brilliant insight, a fine description, some petty and human, some grandiloquent.” —Chicago Tribune

Bailey’s Cafe: This “moving and memorable” national bestseller is set in post–World War II Brooklyn, on a quiet backstreet, where Bailey’s Cafe serves as a crossroads for a broad range of patrons, a place of limbo for tortured souls before they move on—or check out (Boston Globe).

“A virtuoso orchestration of survival, suffering, courage and humor.” —The New York Times Book Review 

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Periodically (though not recently) I'll get questions from students asking about breaking into the publishing industry.

I know next to nothing about breaking into the publishing industry. But I just found a tumblr that does: openroadmedia, a digital publishing company, has done the world of aspiring publishers the kindness of interviewing some of their employees about how they got their starts in publishing (and other cool things about themselves).

So, for you information and enjoyment, I'll be scheduling some of those to post in the coming days.

Cheers!

EMH