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FUR a featured holiday book selection in DNA Magazine

FUR a featured holiday book selection in DNA Magazine

This brief but positive review (see inset) by Graeme Aitkin just appeared at the (more-than-)half top of page 87 in the new issue of the popular Australian magazine, DNA. I’m puzzled as to why they didn’t include in their list of contributors the name of the illustrator for the image they used, Rafael Lopez. But otherwise it’s a lovely piece.

FUR: THE LOVE OF HAIR in DNA

 FUR: THE LOVE OF HAIR

By Ron J Suresha and Scott McGillivray

This book is more substantial than Bruno Gmunder‘s usual photo book anthologies. It’s a larger format to begin with and also runs to 255 pages. But also the photographs and art are complemented by well-written essays, which introduce the various sections, Famous And Familiar Fur, The Politics Of Fur and Fur As Fetish. The photographer and artists contributors include the likes of Exterface, Gengorah Tagame, Bearfighter, Blade T Bannon, Patrick Mettraux, and Jack Fritcher.

Published by Ron Suresha

Ron Jackson Suresha is an editor, anthologist, and writer. He is considered an authority on emergent queer masculinities, in particular the subcultures of gay and bi male Bears and of male bisexuality. For Ron's service to the bear community, he was named "Bear of the Year" 2008. Born in Detroit, Michigan, Suresha attended the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, 1976-8), where he studied creative writing, and Vista College (Berkeley, Cal., 1989-92), where he studied American Sign Language. For more than two decades, he has worked as a freelance proofreader for trade book publishers such as Shambhala Publications. He was married in October 2004 to Rocco Russo. He is also a licensed Justice of the Peace in Connecticut, an ordained minister, ULC, and a member of the New London Green Party. Nonfiction works include Bears on Bears: Interviews & Discussions; Bi Men: Coming Out (coeditor, with Pete Chvany); Bisexual Perspectives on the Life and Work of Alfred C. Kinsey (editor). His latest book is The Uncommon Sense of the Immortal Mullah Nasruddin: Stories, jests, and donkey tales of the beloved Persian folk hero, published by Lethe Press.