Dominick Reading for Filth

Dominick Reading for Filth is an illustrated chapbook, a collection of transcripts from staged public readings performed by a former kept boy and escort. The readings took place in New York City beginning in 2007 at the now-defunct Rapture Caf#65533;. His appearances were part of the weekly series "Dean Johnson's Reading for Filth: Queer Writers Reading about Sex" with contributors Edmund White, Eileen Myles, Craig Seymour, and Mike Albo. The readings are tales from the life,...
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Dominick Reading for Filth is an illustrated chapbook, a collection of transcripts from staged public readings performed by a former kept boy and escort. The readings took place in New York City beginning in 2007 at the now-defunct Rapture Caf#65533;. His appearances were part of the weekly series "Dean Johnson's Reading for Filth: Queer Writers Reading about Sex" with contributors Edmund White, Eileen Myles, Craig Seymour, and Mike Albo. The readings are tales from the life, drawn from the diaries he kept while serving the greater NYC metropolitan area. There's also a reminiscence of Dominick's kept boy existence with his Sugar Daddy, the late English society decorator Stuart Greet, and a tribute, on the occasion of his untimely death under mysterious circumstances, to downtown legend and queercore rocker Dean Johnson, the founder of the series. The readings are lurid and frank confessions of a sexual outlaw, and trace a heat map of desire through the vast field of longing that is New York City. The cover art is by Gio Black Peter, and other artists contributed works that appear interspersed with the texts: Alice O'Malley, Scott Hug, Carlo Quispe AKA Uranus, Damani Moyd, Brett Lindell, Miguel Libarnes, and Paul Gellman.