Manuel Betancourt
@bmanuel.bsky.social
Assistant Editor, Documentary magazine
Writer/critic for hire 📍LA
📚 Hello Stranger (OUT NOW!)
📚 The Male Gazed (2023)
📚 Judy at Carnegie Hall (2020)
🏰 Writer on The Cardboard Kingdom series (2018, 2021, 2023)
www.mbetancourt.com
Writer/critic for hire 📍LA
📚 Hello Stranger (OUT NOW!)
📚 The Male Gazed (2023)
📚 Judy at Carnegie Hall (2020)
🏰 Writer on The Cardboard Kingdom series (2018, 2021, 2023)
www.mbetancourt.com
A highlight of my visit to Bend, OR for their fab film festival was time traveling to the early 2000s inside the very last Blockbuster.
October 13, 2025 at 12:16 AM
A highlight of my visit to Bend, OR for their fab film festival was time traveling to the early 2000s inside the very last Blockbuster.
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Posing with my book, HELLO STRANGER which came out six months ago today!
Get it wherever books are sold (namely, your favorite indie bookstore!); and yes, you can even get it on audiobook (read by yours truly).
Posing with my book, HELLO STRANGER which came out six months ago today!
Get it wherever books are sold (namely, your favorite indie bookstore!); and yes, you can even get it on audiobook (read by yours truly).
July 14, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Category is:
Posing with my book, HELLO STRANGER which came out six months ago today!
Get it wherever books are sold (namely, your favorite indie bookstore!); and yes, you can even get it on audiobook (read by yours truly).
Posing with my book, HELLO STRANGER which came out six months ago today!
Get it wherever books are sold (namely, your favorite indie bookstore!); and yes, you can even get it on audiobook (read by yours truly).
Angels in America remains my go-to work whenever I feel despondent and sink into despair.
July 3, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Angels in America remains my go-to work whenever I feel despondent and sink into despair.
So many faves I left off.
June 23, 2025 at 11:42 PM
So many faves I left off.
Happy Pride! 🏳️🌈
If you’re going to buy gay books this summer, may I recommend two that make for excellent poolside/beach reads?
If you’re going to buy gay books this summer, may I recommend two that make for excellent poolside/beach reads?
June 1, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Happy Pride! 🏳️🌈
If you’re going to buy gay books this summer, may I recommend two that make for excellent poolside/beach reads?
If you’re going to buy gay books this summer, may I recommend two that make for excellent poolside/beach reads?
May the 4th content.
May 4, 2025 at 7:29 PM
May the 4th content.
Caught TRAPEZE this weekend and boy was I not prepared for what’s ostensibly a film about watching Burt Lancaster & Tony Curtis mosey around in tights on any given shot.
May 4, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Caught TRAPEZE this weekend and boy was I not prepared for what’s ostensibly a film about watching Burt Lancaster & Tony Curtis mosey around in tights on any given shot.
I see we’re having interactions with strangers discourse…
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/757080...
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/757080...
April 27, 2025 at 4:56 PM
I see we’re having interactions with strangers discourse…
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/757080...
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/757080...
Very excited to be part of two panels at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books this weekend with a fabulous all around cohort of queer folks!
April 24, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Very excited to be part of two panels at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books this weekend with a fabulous all around cohort of queer folks!
I suffered through its cloying ways (moreover, I also watched the similarly themed, MY PENGUIN FRIEND, which is just as baffling a proposition)
April 24, 2025 at 5:16 PM
I suffered through its cloying ways (moreover, I also watched the similarly themed, MY PENGUIN FRIEND, which is just as baffling a proposition)
Yes to all of these summers.
April 20, 2025 at 3:50 AM
Yes to all of these summers.
Headed to San Francisco tomorrow for my next HELLO STRANGER book tour stop!
Tuesday March 18
FABULOSA BOOKS @ 7pm
Tuesday March 18
FABULOSA BOOKS @ 7pm
March 17, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Headed to San Francisco tomorrow for my next HELLO STRANGER book tour stop!
Tuesday March 18
FABULOSA BOOKS @ 7pm
Tuesday March 18
FABULOSA BOOKS @ 7pm
March 12, 2025 at 3:29 PM
My favorite Dawn moment.
February 26, 2025 at 6:25 PM
My favorite Dawn moment.
It’s been one month since HELLO STRANGER was published and no better reason to celebrate that than Valentine’s Day!
If you love Before Sunrise, Closer, Take This Waltz, Weekend and the like, you’re bound to enjoy these “musings on modern intimacy.”
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/757080...
If you love Before Sunrise, Closer, Take This Waltz, Weekend and the like, you’re bound to enjoy these “musings on modern intimacy.”
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/757080...
February 14, 2025 at 4:31 PM
It’s been one month since HELLO STRANGER was published and no better reason to celebrate that than Valentine’s Day!
If you love Before Sunrise, Closer, Take This Waltz, Weekend and the like, you’re bound to enjoy these “musings on modern intimacy.”
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/757080...
If you love Before Sunrise, Closer, Take This Waltz, Weekend and the like, you’re bound to enjoy these “musings on modern intimacy.”
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/757080...
A joy to chat with @fakedansavage.bsky.social about flirting & Hello Stranger.
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February 5, 2025 at 7:32 PM
A joy to chat with @fakedansavage.bsky.social about flirting & Hello Stranger.
savage.love/subscribe (Use promo code HELLO to subscribe & listen to the full Magnum episode)
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New author headshots, courtesy of the talented John Lagucki. 💕
January 31, 2025 at 8:37 PM
New author headshots, courtesy of the talented John Lagucki. 💕
If you see this, post a fictional artist/band that you would love to see live.
January 27, 2025 at 12:20 AM
If you see this, post a fictional artist/band that you would love to see live.
DC! I’m coming your way today!
January 24, 2025 at 2:01 PM
DC! I’m coming your way today!
To think you could make just as fabulous a category lineup with those who didn’t get in (MJB, Kidman, Jolie, Anderson, Ronan)
January 23, 2025 at 1:55 PM
To think you could make just as fabulous a category lineup with those who didn’t get in (MJB, Kidman, Jolie, Anderson, Ronan)
Finding some joy today in anticipation of my LA book launch, tonight at Skylight Books!
January 20, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Finding some joy today in anticipation of my LA book launch, tonight at Skylight Books!
