There's Only One Sin in Hollywood
A Novel
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Rasheed Newson
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A cinematic, razor-sharp novel following a backlot fixer’s daring investigation into the suspicious death of a closeted Black actor within the glamorous world of Hollywood, from the bestselling author of My Government Means to Kill Me
Xavier C. Barlow, one of Hollywood’s young Black stars taking the industry by storm in the late 1950s, is Skyline Studios’s ambitious attempt to rival Sidney Poitier's burgeoning success. His arrival into the industry is calculated, his charm is magnetic, and his seductive screen presence appeals to both audiences and celebrities across generations.
But years later, after Xavier dies at the height of his fame, Aaron Touissant—Skyline’s designated backlot fixer who helps the studio’s stars stay as deep in the closet as humanly possible—is finally ready to expose the powerful culprits responsible for his untimely death.
Written as part-confessional, part-cris de coeur from Aaron's panoramic lens, There’s Only One Sin in Hollywood is a searing portrait of the movie industry as a manicured minefield and a compelling journey into the queer history of Los Angeles.
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"Deliciously witty and packing enough erotic heat to make sensitive souls clutch their pearls, Rasheed Newson’s superb second novel brings us Xavier, a rising superstar determined to liberate queer Hollywood from a culture that demands silence and acquiescence. In studio boardrooms and backlots twinkling with VIPs named Poitier and Belafonte, unknowns try to become legends and heroes struggle to be heroic. Newson writes in technicolor—wow, are these pages alive!—and knows where the bodies are buried. Love, fame, war, religion, political freedom, big dreams and big money—There’s Only One Sin in Hollywood is a quintessential Hollywood novel and an LA classic for our times." —Laura Warrell, author of Sweet, Soft, Plenty, Rhythm
“In Rasheed Newson's There’s Only One Sin in Hollywood, inhumane history snares all lovelorn seekers, transforming fixers and actors into potent dreamers who frequent and abandon their fates with disastrous and extraordinary resolve. Propelled by a haunted jaunty narration that makes a lively case for the necessity of memory, There’s Only One Sin in Hollywood illustrates and innervates the queer midcentury. This novel is an erotically-charged, violent masterpiece of love.” —Kyle Dillon Hertz, author of The Lookback Window
"Living up to its provocative title, Rasheed Newson's There's Only One Sin in Hollywood offers a deft and deliciously decadent excavation of Black queer history. Sexy, sly, and with a piquant sense of humor, Newson's prose handily shuttles you between glittering post-war Hollywood backlots and dimly-lit lurid cruising spots in Griffith Park—all while making a period piece about a fixer stuck between two worlds feel impossibly urgent and fresh." —Manuel Betancourt, author of Hello Stranger