Thank you @rollinscollege.bsky.social, and especially Dr. Matt Nichter, for opening your doors so generously to the history of AMERICAN SCARE. What a visit, and so glad we skirted Fox Day (a Rollins tradition for those in the know)!
Orlando folks, I’ll be giving a talk this week on my latest book AMERICAN SCARE at Rollins College in Winter Park. Deets on flyer #booksky
Secret Project Reveal: TINDERBOX now has a Japanese translation, courtesy of Kokusho Kankokai publishers. Surprise! I've long been fascinated with the cultural dialogue between Japan (Tokyo, in particular) and New Orleans, and this project in my mind only strengths that link.
Back to the scene of the crime: Gainesville, FL! Honored to be exposing the history Florida tried to hide from its people at the Matheson Museum this Weds 3/25 at 7pm. Event free with registration, tickets still avail mathesonmuseum.networkforgood.com/events/95896...
Deeply, deeply honored that AMERICAN SCARE has been named a finalist for the Randy Shilts Award for Gay Nonfiction by @publishingtriangle.bsky.social. Doubly proud to be in that number with my buddy Daniel Brook and his stellar biography The Einstein of Sex!!
“I kept wondering why it felt like we were all living in the United States of Florida.”
—Robert Fieseler discussing his latest book, American Scare, with Katelyn Kimberlin.
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Great talk with @publicseminar.bsky.social on the Floridafication of America publicseminar.org/2026/03/inte...
One more celebratory post: My book AMERICAN SCARE has been named a Finalist for the American Bar Association’s Silver Gavel Awards! #booksky
HUGE
Congratulations, Bobby!!!
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Delighted to announce that my book AMERICAN SCARE has been named a Finalist for the American Bar Association’s Silver Gavel Awards for Media and the Arts. My father was and is an attorney, so this is an especially moving honor. www.americanbar.org/news/abanews...
Some literary meetups truly shine a light forward. Honored by this free-speech collab in Miami Beach with @penamerica.bsky.social for American Scare. Thank you William Johnson for organizing this Cocktails and Conversation salon!
Great time dishing historical queerness on Ivory Tower Boiler Room podcast www.youtube.com/watch?v=FucC...
And now your Sunday morning message from Mo the Cat Lady, the authentic New Orleans eccentric
Proud to be collabing with PEN America @penamerica.bsky.social March 7! #booksky
And now your Sunday morning message from Mo the Cat Lady, the authentic New Orleans eccentric
2025 will be remembered as the year of widespread erasure for queer programming, and so it was a supreme honor to travel to Broward County, Florida last September to share my book AMERICAN SCARE as part of the festival Pride in Progress. This is the talk I gave www.youtube.com/watch?v=BsOs...
Special news. American Scare has been named an American Library Association Stonewall Honor Book in Nonfiction for 2026.
I’ve been working on several secret projects, and a big one is nearing its premiere. For the past 5 years, I’ve been working as co-directer on a feature-length documentary called By George: A Life. It’s about a Holocaust liberator who became a Civil Rights activist. Trailer: youtu.be/I5mUMQvYV2g
Thank you Queer News Tonight for all the love and featuring my work youtu.be/MQLhEIBYtsM?...
Sunset, windswept, Mallory Square, Key West.
It ain’t a Key West pitstop until you’ve tried to pet a rooster or had the pork at El Siboney! Here for a reading at Key West Library
How cool! Folks at the journal Southern Cultures named my story “Throwaway Boy,” about an HIV-positive New Orleans street kid who confronted outgoing President Ronald Reagan at the 1988 Republican National Convention, one of their “favorite reads from 2025.”
And now your Thursday morning message from Mo the Cat Lady, the authentic New Orleans eccentric
Now reading @wordbobby.bsky.social's deeply researched AMERICAN SCARE (2025).
Looking forward to my first queer event of 2026. See you in Key West on MLK Day, Jan 19 friendsofthekeywestlibrary.org/event/speake...
Well, this is incredible. My story “King of Olympus,” about a forgotten New Orleans AIDS activist whose name is framed in pink triangles on the AIDS Quilt, is a GLAAD Media Award nominee!
