"I met him at a party and I said, 'Why'd you stop?', and he said, 'My life was threatened, and I'm just a gossip columnist, not an investigative reporter.' So, I said, 'Would you give me your source material?' And he said, 'No, I'm afraid to, don't go anywhere near it. "Arthur Bell, a columnist for The Voice, did a series of articles in the mid-1970s about gay murders in New York City, and then he stopped," says Picano, now 74. Picano believed the NYPD might have been involved in a real-life series of killings that had been covered in The Village Voice, and which served as inspiration for his book. Unsurprisingly, the cops do not come out of it well. People who viewed this item also viewed Wild Animals: Alligators by Shannon Jade (English) Paperback Book Yudi: Jade Emperor by Samantha S.
While writing it, Felice Picano had solicited the help of a mole in the city police force to corroborate his suspicions and conjectures. A deliciously lurid tale of a serial killer stalking the gay nightclubs of New York City, 1979's The Lure - published hard on the heels of Faggots, Dancer From the Dance, and Edmund White's Nocturnes for the King of Naples - was the first queer novel to make the popular Book of the Month Club, and its success may have rattled the NYPD. 10 likes, 2 comments - Spicy Book Club for Lonely Readers (lonelysmutsluts) on Instagram: 'Another delicious recommendation for you Bait by Jade West ‘A.
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