A Reading At St Marks Bookstore: Parasite by Stephen Boyer
Channel: Stephen Boyer
Date: 2013-02-01

Stephen Boyer reads from Parasite at St Marks Bookstore (1/30/2013). Parasite was published by Publication Studios, January 2013. It's available at independent bookstores and online here:

http://www.publicationstudio.biz/books/212

Parasite, Stephen Boyer's debut novel is about a young 17 year old boy, Joshua Boyer, who runs away from his unaccepting Christian parents. Josh finds himself in San Francisco as a sex slave to an older man, but quickly tires of the abuse. He turns to working in the sex industry and searches for true love as he tries to figure out his new life. 

"If you're looking for a raw and slightly surreal missive from the land of poetic hustlers (and, really, who isn't?) Parasite is your book. Josh, the protagonist, is a queer teen with tranny tendencies and a psychedelic sensibility." —Alvin Orloff

"Josh is the sort of boy who experiences nearly everything through his ass, so he's not your usual sort of narrator, but if you've ever sat on anything weird, or anything splendid, this book will get to you just as it got to me." —Kevin Killian

Publication Studio's Fellow Travelers series extends the pioneering work of Paris-based Olympia Press's Traveller's Companion series of the 1950s and '60s, which published work that had been banned or censored through moralistic prohibition. Our series presents great new work that has been effectively "censored" by the market. In our day, the market is the definitive censor. The Fellow Travelers series proudly presents great work that the market has not endorsed, but that we believe in.

Stephen Boyer's reading was followed by a reading by Rami Shamir which is available here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-qQa23w6ns