Regina Marler writes for the Los Angeles Times Book Review, New York Observer, and The Advocate. The author of Bloomsbury Pie: The Making of the Bloomsbury Boom and the editor of Selected Letters of Vanessa Bell, Marler has a terrific talent for writing literary biography and criticism for a general audience. She lives in San Francisco. Queer Beats "Queer Beats [is] popular scholarship at its most relevant and entertaining best." ?San Francisco Chronicle "An essential addition to the Beat oeuvre. Regina Marler's passionate and informed scholarship infuses the entire book. Queer Beats is one of those rare books that takes familiar material and is able to give the reader a fresh look at the Beats." ?Paul Yamazaki, City Lights Books "Queer Beats adds something fresh and vital to the Beat canon. Marler...has compiled a crazy quilt of queer sexual exuberance." ?Books To Watch Out For