Some Styles of Masculinity by Gregg Bordowitz & Hua Hsu

Some Styles of Masculinity By Gregg Bordowitz Introduction by Hua Hsu Published by Triple Canopy, October 2021 Perfect-bound, 256 pp, 4.33" × 7" One-color offset printed ISBN 978-0-9978524-5-5 Some Styles of Masculinity is an intimate, urgent, and rollicking account of thinking and enduring through upheaval and plague. Prompted by the surge of white nationalism in the United States, Gregg Bordowitz reflects on his experience of assimilation and marginalization as a Yinglish-speaking child of outer-borough Jews and a queer person who has been living with AIDS since his twenties. He tells his own story by considering three totems of masculinity that were formative to him as he came of age in New York City in the 1970s and ’80s: the rock star, the rabbi, and the comedian. These figures taught Bordowitz how to balance reinvention and tradition, and how to be different even as difference is under assault. In establishing his own rebellious masculinity, Bordowitz embraces outcasts, o