I joined Vivian Manning-Schaffel (whose riotous essay on Nonnacore excoriates current values around aging), Elena Sheppard, and host Elyssa Maxx Goodman at September's Miss Manhattan, Elyssa's long-running monthly series featuring nonfiction. Read from chapter 8 of AFTERLIFE OF A KEPT BOY, "Are U Available?" which covers my friendship with Dean Johnson. About Dean's core grievance with the music industry: I later attended a screening of the film Mondo New York in which he appeared with his first band, the Weenies. I found the film’s wide-eyed, sensationalist framing of New York’s underground scene tiresome freak-gawking, but Dean’s incendiary performance of the song “Fuck You” woke me right up.

Fun times in the rain! From the alley to the store interior of Book Row. Heard some great pieces from Emily Mitchell, Goeff Dembricki, Kevin Gonzalez, and Mani Mekala, who all appear in the inaugural issue of the New York Review of Smut. From the reading: I developed a baseline identity, a bisexual Italian guy from either Brooklyn or Long Island. The customers, locals and tourists alike, ate it up. I modeled my speech on blue-collar types, mechanics who drive in early from Long Island in their vans and go from one job to the next, men who fixed things, men who had the right tools for the job.

I had a really enjoyable convo with Lou Barrett of Purple Palm Press, who hosts the Queer Discourse podcast. QD also has stellar episodes with authors Torrey Peters and Jason Yamas, check them out too. Lou & I discussed some major themes of AFTERLIFE OF A KEPT BOY: agency, solitude, the Italian-American condition–and got into the Yoko Ono of it all.

Discussing agency, Italian-American identity, and the Yoko Ono of it all w/ Lou Barrett.

from ch. 9 of AFTERLIFE OF A KEPT BOY (C&R Press, 2025)

A twink-death-forward review of my memoir AFTERLIFE OF A KEPT BOY appears in Issue 005 of The Whitney Review of New Writing. I also appear in the issue as a contributor, reviewing a memoir by the late Felice Picano, whose death in March came while we were actively corresponding. Despite health challenges, Felice was gracious enough to provide me with a blurb for my memoir: Afterlife of a Kept Boy is a sensational read, immediate, engrossing, frank and at times way out there. Corvino's detailing in at least the first part is so intricate and accurate one could reproduce the upper-upper's lunch and dining…

Only days after its publication, the first review of AFTERLIFE OF A KEPT BOY is out. More than feeling seen I'm feeling clocked! Writing in the Whitney Review of New Writing Issue 005, Journey Streams gets into the twink death narrative of it all. Full transcript of the review: When a twink dies, what else fades? Maybe it's that certain combination of gumption, magnetism, and fear—the fear that one's worth can't be extricated from the body, or the belief in someone else's power to will one into being. But what remains?

Presale Available Now, Afterlife of a Kept Boy will ship on or around March 1, 2025! C&R Press Nonfiction 2023 Award Winner ABOUT Fifth Avenue, New York City, 1986: a sexually confused college kid is ...