Hello Stranger: Musings on Modern Intimacies by Betancourt, Manuel

Hello Stranger: Musings on Modern Intimacies

Witty and winkingly playful, Manuel Betancourt's Hello Stranger explores modern queer romance and the expansive possibilities of...
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Author: Manuel Betancourt
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Language: English
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Hello Stranger: Musings on Modern Intimacies by Betancourt, Manuel

Hello Stranger: Musings on Modern Intimacies

$41.06

Hello Stranger: Musings on Modern Intimacies

$41.06
Author: Manuel Betancourt
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Witty and winkingly playful, Manuel Betancourt's Hello Stranger explores modern queer romance and the expansive possibilities of ephemeral intimacies

"Hello stranger." As an opening line, you really can't ask for better.

Hello Stranger is a book about chance encounters--at a bar, through social media, in a bathhouse--and what a stranger can reveal about who we are and who we could still yet be. A stranger, after all, is a site of endless possibilities.

As Manuel Betancourt looks back on his past relationships, he turns to characters and narratives that helped him question notions of what monogamy and coupledom (and relationships and marriage) can and should look like. From films like Before Sunrise and Cruising to the poetry of Frank O'Hara and the musicals of Stephen Sondheim, Betancourt uses pop culture to make sense of the alluring prospect of forging intimacies with strangers--even, or especially, the strangers within ourselves.

At once a personal excavation and a broad cultural critique, Betancourt grapples with everything from online sexting and real-life cruising to divorces and throuples. Hello Stranger examines the intimacies we crave, value, and oftentimes destroy with rote familiarity.

Author: Manuel Betancourt
Publisher: Catapult
Published: 01/14/2025
Pages: 240
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 9.70h x 6.40w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9781646222292


Review Citation(s):
Booklist 11/01/2024 pg. 8
Publishers Weekly 11/18/2024
Kirkus Reviews 12/01/2024
Library Journal 01/31/2025 pg. 1

About the Author
MANUEL BETANCOURT is a queer Colombian culture writer and film critic. His work has been featured in The New York Times, BuzzFeed Reader, Los Angeles Times, Film Quarterly, Los Angeles Review of Books and GQ Style, among others. Manuel is the author of The Male Gazed (Catapult, 2023), Judy Garland's Judy at Carnegie Hall (Bloomsbury Press, 2020), and a contributing writer to the Eisner Award-nominated graphic novel series, The Cardboard Kingdom (Knopf Books for Young Readers, 2018 & 2021).

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