On the heels of his Emmy-winning It Gets Better campaign, Dan Savage delivers “powerful messages for both the head and heart” (Entertainment Weekly) From the moment he began writing his syndicated sex-advice column, Savage Love, Dan Savage has never been shy about expressing his opinion on controversial topics—political or otherwise. Now, he addresses issues ranging from parenting and the gay agenda to the Catholic Church and health care. Among them: • Why straight people should have straight “pride” parades, too • Why Obamacare, as good as it is, is “still kinda evil” • Why what passes for sex-ed in America is more like “sex dread” • Why the Bible is “only as good and decent as the person reading it” Speaking to a broad range of subjects with brutal honesty and irreverent humor, American Savage cements Dan Savage’s place as a provocative and insightful voice in American culture.

American Savage: Insights, Slights, and Fights on Faith, Sex, Love, and Politics

Biographies & Memoirs

Savage, Dan

Professionals & Academics

Penguin Publishing Group

Welcome to the hot new wave of writing about sex: Savage Love. Columnist Dan Savage has hand-picked over 300 letters from six years worth of "Savage Love," a no-holds-barred syndicated sex-advice column which runs in 16 papers in the United States and Canada, including The Village Voice and the San Francisco Weekly. An original and funny thinker, thrashing around in the playground of human sexuality, Savage advises on a wide range of titillating topics:* What is the best seduction music?* How do I come out to my fundamentalist parents?* What is so wonderful about intercourse, anyway?Forget Anka Radakovich and Isadora Altman. Tune in to Dan Savage as he answers these questions and much more in his own uniquely irreverent and sexually spunky style.

Savage Love: Straight Answers from America's Most Popular Sex Columnist

Parenting & Relationships

Dan Savage's nationally syndicated sex advice column, "Savage Love," enrages and excites more than four million people each week. In The Kid, Savage tells a no-holds-barred, high-energy story of an ordinary American couple who wants to have a baby. Except that in this case the couple happens to be Dan and his boyfriend. That fact, in the face of a society enormously uneasy with gay adoption, makes for an edgy, entertaining, and illuminating read. When Dan and his boyfriend are finally presented with an infant badly in need of parenting, they find themselves caught up in a drama that extends well beyond the confines of their immediate world. A story about confronting homophobia, falling in love, getting older, and getting a little bit smarter, The Kid is a book about the very human desire to have a family.

The Kid: What Happened After My Boyfriend and I Decided to Go Get Pregnant

Humor & Entertainment

In Skipping Towards Gomorrah, Dan Savage eviscerates the right-wing conservatives as he commits each of the Seven Deadly Sins himself (or tries to) and finds those everyday Americans who take particular delight in their sinful pursuits. Among them:
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<li>Greed: Gamblers reveal secrets behind outrageous fortune.</li>
<li>Lust: "We're swingers!"-you won't believe who's doing it.</li>
<li>Anger: Texans shoot off some rounds and then listen to Dan fire off on his own about guns, gun control, and the Second Amendment.</li>
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Combine a unique history of the Seven Deadly Sins, a new interpretation of the biblical stories of Sodom and Gomorrah, and enough Bill Bennett, Robert Bork, Pat Buchanan, Dr. Laura, and Bill O'Reilly bashing to more than make up for their incessant carping, and you've got the most provocative book of the fall.

Skipping Towards Gomorrah: The Seven Deadly Sins and the Pursuit of Happiness in America

Literature & Fiction

Short Stories & Anthologies

Dan Savage’s mother wants him to get married. His boyfriend, Terry, says “no thanks” because he doesn’t want to act like a straight person. Their six-year-old son DJ says his two dads aren’t “allowed” to get married, but that he’d like to come to the reception and eat cake. Throw into the mix Dan’s straight siblings, whose varied choices form a microcosm of how Americans are approaching marriage these days, and you get a rollicking family memoir that will have everyone—gay or straight, right or left, single or married—howling with laughter and rethinking their notions of marriage and all it entails.

The Commitment: Love, Sex, Marriage, and My Family

A popular sex-advice columnist offers a celebratory and incisive memoir discussing his decision, as a gay man in a long-term relationship, to adopt a child, creating problems with conservative groups, his own friends, adoption agencies, and a drug-addicted birth mother. 15,000 first printing.

Dutton Adult

An irreverent, opinionated columnist eviscerates conservative critics to celebrate the Seven Deadly Sins--Greed, Lust, Gluttony, Sloth, Anger, Envy, and Pride--and those who delight in their sinful pursuits. 25,000 first printing.

Humor

A syndicated sex-advice columnist and the editor of Seattle's The Stranger shares his coming-to-terms with the public act of marriage and how it affects the gay community, in a memoir that describes the legal and personal ramifications stemming from his own efforts to pursue a faithful relationship. 40,000 first printing.

LGBTQ+ Books

On the heels of his Emmy-winning It Gets Better campaign, columnist and provocateur Dan Savage weighs in on such diverse issues as healthcare, gun control, and marriage equality with characteristic straight talk and humor. Dan Savage has always had a loyal audience, thanks to his syndicated sex-advice column “Savage Love,” but since the incredible global success of his It Gets Better project—his book of the same name was a New York Times bestseller—his profile has skyrocketed. In addition, he’s written for The New York Times, Rolling Stone, The Onion, GQ, The Guardian, Salon.com, and countless other widely read publications. Savage is recognized as someone whose opinions about our culture, politics, and society should not only be listened to but taken seriously. Now, in American Savage, he writes on topics ranging from marriage, parenting, and the gay agenda to the Catholic Church and sex education.

Dutton

From Dan Savage, Lindy West, and The Stranger staff comes this hilarious guide to life for college students and beyond. Here is all the information you actually need to know that no one else will tell you including: which majors to avoid, how to not get a STD, everything there is to know about philosophy (in a single paragraph!), what the music you like says about you, how to turn a crush into something more, how to come out (should you happen to be gay), how to binge drink and not die, how do laundry, how to do drugs (and which ones you should never do), good manners, tips on flirting with film nerds, how to write a great sentence, and a state-by-state guide to the U.S. of A. It's all here, along with Dan Savage's very best advice about sex and love. Hi!

How to Be a Person: The Stranger's Guide to College, Sex, Intoxicants, Tacos, and Life Itself

West, Lindy

Frizzelle, Christopher

Clement, Bethany Jean

The Staff of The Stranger

Sasquatch Books

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American Savage: Insights, Slights, and Fights on Faith, Sex, Love, and Politics

Savage Love: Straight Answers from America's Most Popular Sex Columnist

The Kid: What Happened After My Boyfriend and I Decided to Go Get Pregnant

Skipping Towards Gomorrah: The Seven Deadly Sins and the Pursuit of Happiness in America

The Commitment: Love, Sex, Marriage, and My Family

The Kid: What Happened After My Boyfriend and I Decided to Go Get Pregnant

Skipping Towards Gomorrah: The Seven Deadly Sins and the Pursuit of Happiness in America

The Commitment: Love, Sex, Marriage, and My Family

American Savage: Insights, Slights, and Fights on Faith, Sex, Love, and Politics

How to Be a Person: The Stranger's Guide to College, Sex, Intoxicants, Tacos, and Life Itself