Manuel Betancourt
@bmanuel
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Writer/critic for hire 📚 Hello Stranger (OUT NOW!) 📚 The Male Gazed (2023) 📚 Judy at Carnegie Hall (2020) 🏰 Writer on @thecardboardk Rep @MichaelBourret
He/Him Los Angeles, CA
Joined June 2009
It’s finally here! My new book HELLO STRANGER is out today. You can get it wherever books are sold (you can even get it as an e-book and as an audiobook as well, narrated by yours truly!) Get your copy here!
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RT @CinemaTropical: “A dazzling, daring provocation... with her Sundance debut, writer-director Gala del Sol announces herself as a fabulou…
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RT @CatapultStory: HELLO STRANGER author @bmanuel shares some of the books that shaped his adolescence, helped inspire his latest novel, an…
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RT @foglifterpress: "What would it mean to live – instead of in a short story – to live in a lyric?" — @bmanuel interviewed by Dez Deshaies…
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RT @CatapultStory: NY Times (@nytimesbooks) calls @bmanuel's HELLO STRANGER "a persuasive and well-researched disquisition on the edifying…
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RT @ruthmadievsky: MOVED TO @ChevaliersBooks at 6pm tomorrow LA, see you tomorrow💋📺 @___adorn @bmanuel @EmmaSpecter @ElizabethTeets https…
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I am so proud of these two books, one on intimacy, one on masculinity, which have helped me grow as a writer and a critic. On days when I feel like I should be doing more, writing more, making more… I’m happy I can turn to my shelf and beam at these accomplishments, at least.
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Loved chatting about flirting & all things Hello Stranger with @robsalerno.
Also, @bmanuel's new book "Hello Stranger" is out today. Check out my interview with him for the @LosAngelesBlade:
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My Reading Life: Hello Stranger author Manuel Betancourt needed more books about queer desire in his teens Thanks @debutiful for the fun Q&A.
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RT @debutiful: We asked @bmanuel about the books that shaped his life! Discover what books the HELLO STRANGER writer was obsessed with as…
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RT @ElectricLit: In this excerpt from “Hello Stranger,” Manuel Betancourt (@bmanuel) explores cruising as a queer practice that requires dr…
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Chapter 10 Stranger We come full circle with Closer once more, but not without some much needed detours into Shortbus, Larry Mitchell's The Faggots & Their Friends Between Revolutions, and the work Salman Toor to dissect cuddling as a fruitful image of contemporary intimacies.
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I’M STILL HERE is a near perfect movie anchored by a wonderfully restrained performance from Golden Globe winner Fernanda Torres. My review for @TheAVClub
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RT @robsalerno: My feature interview with @bmanuel about his new book, Hello Stranger: Musings on Modern Intimacy, is up at the @WashBlade:…
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