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Open Road Integrated Media Launches Ebooks from National Book
Award-Winning Writer Paul Monette
NEW YORK, March 25, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Open Road Integrated Media, a
digital publisher and multimedia content company, announced today that
it will release and market thirteen works by Paul Monette, including
his National Book Award-winning memoir, Becoming a Man, widely praised
as the seminal coming-out story of the twentieth century. Monette's
poetry and nonfiction will be available on March 25:
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-- Becoming a Man
-- Borrowed Time
-- The Carpenter at the Asylum
-- Last Watch of the Night
-- Love Alone
-- No Witnesses
-- West of Yesterday, East of Summer
Open Road will publish Monette's novels on April 22:
-- Afterlife
-- The Gold Diggers
-- Halfway Home
-- Lightfall
-- The Long Shot
-- Taking Care of Mrs. Carroll
"The opportunity to publish Paul Monette digitally and make his work
widely available to new readers-as well as people who discovered him
three decades ago-is really meaningful," says Philip Rappaport,
Monette's ebook editor and the Director of Publishing Partnerships for
Open Road Media. "Becoming a Man was revelatory: It spoke to the
struggle that countless men in his generation and my generation faced.
It is an honor for Open Road Integrated Media to publish his writing."
Paul Monette (1945-1995) was an author, poet, and gay rights activist.
Born in Massachusetts and educated at Yale University, he moved with
his partner Roger Horwitz to Los Angeles in 1978 and became involved
in the gay rights movement. Monette's writing captures the sense of
heartbreak and loss at the center of the AIDS crisis. His first novel,
Taking Care of Mrs. Carroll, was published in 1978, and he went on to
write several more works of fiction, poetry, and memoir. Borrowed
Time: An AIDS Memoir, the tender account of his partner's battle with
the disease, earned him both PEN Center West and Lambda literary
awards. In 1992, Monette won the National Book Award in Nonfiction for
Becoming a Man: Half a Life Story, an autobiography detailing his
early life and his struggle with his sexuality. Written as a classic
coming-of-age story, Becoming a Man became a seminal coming-out story.
In 1995, Monette founded the Monette-Horwitz Trust, which honors
individuals and organizations working to combat homophobia. Monette
died in his home in West Hollywood in 1995 of complications from AIDS.
Visit www.openroadmedia.com/paul-monette for more information, and
watch an exclusive, embeddable mini-documentary video about Paul
Monette.
About Open Road Integrated Media
Open Road Integrated Media is a digital publisher and multimedia
content company. Open Road creates connections between authors and
their audiences by marketing its ebooks through a new proprietary
online platform, which uses premium video content and social media.
Open Road has published ebooks from legendary authors including
William Styron, Pat Conroy, Alice Walker, James Jones and Virginia
Hamilton.
Press Release Contact: Laura De Silva Phone: 917.512.4325 Email
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