"Midnight at the Cinema Palace is a funny, sensual coming-of-age novel, double-exposing the voyeuristic pleasures of an artist's life with the sorrowful wisdom that originates within creation." —KYLE DILLON HERTZ, author of The Lookback Window

"How do you come to life as the city of your dreams disappears, person by person, around you? In Midnight at the Cinema Palace, you make art, fall in love with your friends, make each other laugh, and do what you can to keep the inevitable away. This is a brisk, animated novel about LGBTQ+ life in San Francisco in the late days before the internet changed everything. More than nostalgia, it speaks to this moment: Who might we envision ourselves to be?" —PAUL LISICKY, author of Song So Wild and Blue: A Life with the Music of Joni Mitchell

"Christopher Tradowsky writes gorgeous, melodious sentences. He also brings mid-90s San Francisco to glimmering life so vividly, you'd think he built its streets and hills and shops and theaters himself. But best of all, Tradowsky creates unforgettable characters. Film-obsessed protagonist Walter, the flamboyant Sasha and Cary, all the friends and lovers within their orbit--everyone absolutely blazes with life and emotion, making us laugh and swoon and, by the book's bittersweet finale, even cry. I love these characters, and I love this book." —SCOTT HEIM, author of Mysterious Skin and We Disappear