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Great review of New London Voices

Out and Underground: Arts community draws on Boats, Books an Brushes crowd
By Stephen Chupaska, New London Times, 9/23/2005

Paced by the fifth annual Boats, Books and Brushes with Taste festival, cultural life in the city was vibrant.
More than one group piggybacked on the event, which drew crowds to the waterfront.
At Greene's Books and Beans, New London Voices, a literary gathering organized and hosted by local authors Ron Suresha and Susan Munger as an alternative to the weekend's official literary festival, was well attended.
The Saturday morning reading featured 15 authors — mostly professors from Connecticut College or the University of Connecticut at Avery Point — who presented books on topics as varied as gay subcultures, crime fiction, Brazilian drug dealers and gene research in mice.
“Each author is completely different,” Munger said. “There is a tremendous diversity of talent right here in New London.”
Suresha created New London Voices after his book on “masculine” gay men, “Bears on Bears,” was not accepted for the festival because of its content.

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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.