December 13, 2024
It gives us great pleasure to present Season 9, Episode 48: Dale Corvino!
Dale Corvino returns to share his memoir: Afterlife of a Kept Boy. We discuss the nuance of being a kept boy and how one untangles their emotions and learns to live after that relationship ends. We also touch on using different writing styles to highlight new phases of life, de-stigmatizing sex work, and finding closure.
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Recipient of the 2023 C&R Press Nonfiction Award, and a 2021 Lambda Literary Emerging Fellow, Dale Corvino found his voice at the underground literary salon “Dean Johnson’s Reading for Filth.” In 2018, he won the Gertrude Press Fiction contest, judged by Whiting Award recipient Brontez Purnell. Recent nonfiction includes a profile of Chilean writer Pedro Lemebel for the Gay & Lesbian Review, an essay on queer longing in the digital era for Matt Keegan’s 1996, and a chapter in the Routledge Handbook of Male Sex Work, Culture, and Society. BONDS & BOUNDARIES, his debut short story collection, was released in 2023 from Rebel Satori Press.
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May 3, 2024
It gives us great pleasure to present a Season 9, Episode 17 Interview – Dale Corvino
Dale Corvino joins us to share his book Bonds and Boundaries! We discuss sex work, having beacons on our paths, estrangement, and human connection in this digital age.
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- Bonds and Boundaries at Rebel Satori
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A 2021 Lambda Literary Emerging Fellow in nonfiction, Dale Corvino’s essays have appeared in Salon, the Rumpus, and the Gay & Lesbian Review. Bonds & Boundaries, his debut collection of short stories, was released in 2023 by Rebel Satori Press. His memoir of sex work, Kept Boy in the Afterlife, won the 2023 Nonfiction Prize from C&R Press and will be released in September 2024.
