C&R Press selected Dale Corvino's AFTERLIFE OF A KEPT BOY as their 2023 Nonfiction Prize winner; it’s scheduled for publication on March 15, 2025.

"In the making since my time at CU, the first half is a fairly linear presentation of my entanglement with a British society decorator. It's told in solar time—regular, relentless, like the fixated gaze of the decorator. The second half chronicles the aftermath and how I dismantled that kept label. Recounted in phases, it holds to lunar time. This memoir opens the door to important conversations about agency, queer longing, and representations of sex work in culture."

Praise for AFTERLIFE OF A KEPT BOY:

"A vivid, fast-moving account, both opulent and gloriously sleazy, of how one supremely endowed Sicilian stud from Long Island made a living in a New York City evolving from pre-Y2K indie grit to a booming post-9/11 metropolis where so many transactions moved from streets to screens–including those of desire. Power and submission, privilege and precarity, abasement and redemption reside in these pages, packed to the gills with sex, drugs, dance music, and raunchy gay misadventure. But the book is also a tender elegy to fascinating and complicated friends and lovers the author has since lost." 
-Tim Murphy, author of Christodora

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