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Smile, You're Being Recorded: A Nightlife Empire and the Price of Visibility
Paperback
General FictionGeneral GLBTQIA FictionLiterary Fiction
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jun 7 2026
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.66
Height: 0.54 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Before visibility became a brand, it was a risk.
In 1990s Tuscany, the night was not just music, sweat and desire. It was a secret map of phone calls, coded names, VHS tapes, club lists, glass offices and cameras that could save you-or destroy you.
Smile, You're Being Recorded follows the rise of a nightlife empire through the eyes of a young man caught between queer liberation, business, surveillance and the dangerous hunger to be seen.
From hidden rooms in Pisa to the neon cathedrals of the Tuscan club scene, this is a noir autofiction about bodies, brands, betrayal and visibility: the story of a generation that learned to smile while the camera was still a threat.
A queer nightlife novel about memory, power, desire and the price of becoming visible.
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