Alan Lessik (Author of Make the Dark Night Shine)

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Alan Lessik

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Alan Lessik is a member of the Berlin Queer Writers Circle, Zen practitioner, amateur figure skater and LGBT activist. His debut novel The Troubleseeker was short-listed for the Publishing Triangle鈥檚 2017 Ferro-Grumley Award for LGBTQ Fiction. His non-fiction works and essays have been published by Lambda Literary (The Importance of Novels in Preserving Queer History), the Bay Area Reporter (Sex in the Time of Covid-19), Advocate (Marching to Pretoria), and, San Francisco Bay Guardian. Recently, he was a guest on Andrew. G. Marshall鈥檚 Podcast, The Meaningful Life, and previously had radio essays on KQED Radio and performed as a storyteller at the Moth. For three years, he moderated or participated in panels on queer fiction at the Associati ...more

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	Make the Dark Night Shine: A Zen Novel 4.12 avg rating — 25 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Troubleseeker 4.12 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 2016 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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On Gaslighting and Seeing

Looking back on my career managing a number of quite different non-profits, I can point with pride to the accomplishments and successes of which I was part. I shy away from saying my accomplishments because virtually all that took place was done by teams of dedicated people most often held together by the desire to create change in our world. But this is not an essay about teambuilding, but ra

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Alan Lessik wrote a new blog post On Gaslighting and Seeing Looking back on my career managing a number of quite different non-profits, I can point with pride to the accomplishments and successes of which I wa Read more of this blog post »
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Alan Lessik made a comment on Book Reviewer鈥檚 review of Make the Dark Night Shine: A Zen Novel " Thanks for the amaying and insightful review! "
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Alan Lessik liked Book Reviewer's review of Make the Dark Night Shine: A Zen Novel: "Make the Dark Night Shine, by Alan Lessik, is an evocative and intricately woven narrative that transports readers to the shores of Constantinople through the eyes of Kenzo Uchida, a Japanese foreign ambassador. Set against the backdrop of the interw" Read more of this review 禄
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Alan Lessik made a comment on Jaidee 鈥檚 review of Make the Dark Night Shine: A Zen Novel " Thanks, Jaidee for the beautiful review. The super-power of an author is that we can affect people far away from us and that we do not know with our w ...more "
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Alan Lessik made a comment in the group LGBTQIAP+ Lit Lovers — January 2024 - Stand Alone Suggestions topic " [image] Make the Dark Night Shine: A Zen Novel by Alan Lessik ...more "
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Alan Lessik made a comment in the group LGBTQIAP+ Lit Lovers — Introduce Yourselves HERE! topic " Hi. I am a member of the Berlin Queer Writers Circle, a Zen practitioner, amateur figure skater and queer activist. Inspired by a family story, my nese ...more "
Oct 28, 2023 10:24AM
Alan Lessik made a comment in the group Gay fiction/non-fiction — A love letter from a father to the daughter he never met topic " Make the Dark Night Shine is a love letter from a father to the daughter he never met and was inspired by my Aunt Nina Friedberg Uchida麓s parents and ...more "
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