NON-FICTION BOOK
by Jack Fritscher
The Life and Times of the Legendary
LARRY TOWNSEND
Saluting the 50th Anniversary of
The Leatherman's Handbook
by JACK FRITSCHER
Independent Press Award - Gold
Independent Publisher Book Award - Bronze
216 pages
82 Illustrations
ISBN Print: 9781890834999
ISBN Epub: 9781890834531
LCCN: 2021939197
Publication Date: July 29, 2022
Review Comments: Dave Rhodes, Durk Dehner, Peter Fiske, Owen Keehnen, Thor Stockman, Ian Young, Nayland Blake, Hank Trout, Lester Strong, Ron Suresha, August Bernadicou
Full Reviews
| Frontis | |||
| 1. Thirteen Years after Larry | Text | Flip | |
| 2. An Origin Story | Text | Flip | |
| 3. Preppie, Sergeant, Sex Tourist, Leatherman | Text | Flip | |
| 4. First Gay Writers Summit, San Francisco 1970 | Text | Flip | |
| 5. The Name Game | Text | Flip | |
| 6. Coming Out Twice | Text | Flip | |
| 7. Larry’s Golden Age: Stonewall to AIDS | Text | Flip | |
| 8. Loud Gay Silence | Text | Flip | |
| 9. One-Handed Reading: Erotica or Porn? | Text | Flip | |
| 10. A 10-Inch Pound of Flesh | Text | Flip | |
| 11. Blacklists and Grudge Matches to the Death | Text | Flip | |
| 12. The Conservative Dilemma | Text | Flip | |
| 13. Hanged, Drawn, and (French) Quartered | Text | Flip | |
| 14. Jeanne Barney | Text | Flip | |
| 15. Larry’s “Leather Wife” | Text | Flip | |
| 16. Litigious Larry: Is a Lawsuit Harassment? | Text | Flip | |
| 17. Coming Out in 1950s Los Angeles | Text | Flip | |
| 18. Townsend and Embry Rivalry | Text | Flip | |
| 19. Sex Perversion, Fellatio, and Entrapment | Text | Flip | |
| 20. Lifelong Community Volunteer | Text | Flip | |
| 21. He Who Dies with the Most Column Inches Wins! | Text | Flip | |
| 22. The King Lear of Leather | Text | Flip | |
| 23. Author Declares War on Bookstores | Text | Flip | |
| 24. Suddenly That Summer: June and July 2008 | Text | Flip | |
| 25. Last Brunch at Casa Del Mar Santa Monica | Text | Flip | |
| 26. The Email Letter: Drop That Lawsuit! | Text | Flip | |
| 27. The Passion and Death of Larry Townsend | Text | Flip | |
| 28. From The Drummer Salon to Honcho | Text | Flip | |
| 29. A Montage Recap | Text | Flip | |
| 30. The Townsend-Yerkes House | Text | Flip | |
| Illustrations | Flip | ||
| FULL BOOK | Flip |