Published in 2025, Disco Witches of Fire Island is the first [*] novel featuring a gay Armenian-American leading character as written by a gay Armenian-American. In the novel, it’s 1989, and Joe Agabian and his best friend Ronnie set out to spend their first summer working in the hedonistic gay paradise of Fire Island Pines.
Blair Fell is the author of The Sign for Home, which was long-listed for the Center for Fiction’s First Book Prize, was the winner of the Doris Lippman Prize, and was selected as both an Indies Introduce and Indies Next pick. He’s written dozens of plays that have been performed all over NYC’s downtown as well as in cities across the country and around the world. His TV work as a writer includes Queer as Folk (Showtime) and California Connected (public TV). His first-person essays have appeared in Out Magazine, NY Daily News, Huffington Post, and more. He was also once a bartender for the summer on Fire Island, an experience that greatly informed this novel.
[Joe and Ronnie] are quickly taken in by a pair of quirky, older house cleaners. But something seems off, and Joe starts to suspect the two older men of being up to something otherworldly. In truth, Howie and Lenny are members of a secret disco witch coven tasked with protecting the island—and young men like Joe—from the relentless tragedies ravaging their community. The only problem is, having lost too many of their fellow witches to the epidemic, the coven’s protective powers have been seriously damaged.
From the book description
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ISBN electronic: 9798892420341. Published by Alcove Press.
