New in September: Sarah Schulman, Gengoroh Tagame, Olivia Laing, and Eileen Myles

Author: Edit Team

September 4, 2018

It’s September, and you know what that means… a batch of new LGBTQ books for your reading list!

This month brings a mystery from Sarah Schulman, Maggie Terry (Feminist Press).

From the publisher:

Maggie wants nothing more than to slowly rebuild her life in hopes of being reunited with her daughter. But her first day on the job as a private investigator lands her in the middle of a sensational new case: actress strangled. If Maggie is going to solve this mystery, she’ll have to shake the ghosts—dead NYPD partner, vindictive ex, steadfast drug habit—that have long ruled her life.

Also coming this month is the conclusion of Gengoroh Tagame’s two-part graphic novel, My Brother’s Husband (Pantheon), “the story of Yaichi, his daughter Kana, and how their meeting Mike Flanagan—Yaichi’s brother-in-law—changes their lives and their perceptions of acceptance of homosexuality in their contemporary Japanese culture.”

(If you haven’t read Volume 1 yet, check out our review.)

For those who’ve been jealous of everyone already reading it in the UK, September also brings the US publication of Olivia Laing’s first work of fiction, Crudo (W.W. Norton):

From a Tuscan hotel for the superrich to a Brexit-paralyzed United Kingdom, Kathy spends the first summer of her forties adjusting to the idea of a lifelong commitment. But it’s not only Kathy who’s changing. Fascism is on the rise, truth is dead, the planet is heating up, and Trump is tweeting the world ever-closer to nuclear war. How do you make art, let alone a life, when one rogue tweet could end it all?

In poetry news, Eileen Myles has a new collection out this month. Evolution (Grove Atlantic), “with its channeling of Quakers, Fresca, and cell phones, radiates vital insight, purpose, and risk,” and is their first all-new collection since Snowflake/different streets.

If it’s short stories you’re looking for, check out Lucy Jane Bledsoe’s new collection, Lava Falls (University of Wisconsin Press):

Refusing to buckle under the pressures of family and political traumas, the sojourners in this collection are unified by themes of creative expression and of love―how we define it, how we are impelled by it, and how we are lifted by it.

For younger readers (or the young at heart), this month also brings Nate Expectations (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers), the third—and final—novel in Tim Federle’s teen series about high school theater kid Nate Foster. (Federle won a Lammy for the second book in the series, Five, Six, Seven, Nate!, in 2015.) From the publisher:

When the news hits that E.T.: The Musical wasn’t nominated for a single Tony Award—not one!—the show closes, leaving Nate both out of luck and out of a job. And while Nate’s cast mates are eager to move on (the boy he understudies already landed a role on a TV show!), Nate knows it’s back to square one, also known as Jankburg, Pennsylvania. Where horror (read: high school) awaits.

Or maybe you want to savor that last blast of summer heat with something hot? Check out the new romances below, with titles from Missouri Vaun, Rhys Ford, and Radclyffe.

As always, if we missed an author or book, or if you have a book coming out next month, please email us.

Fiction

• Crudo by Olivia Laing, W. W. Norton & Company
• Lava Falls by Lucy Jane Bledsoe, University of Wisconsin Press
• Juno’s Swans by Tamsen Wolff, Europa Editions
• The Parting Gift by Evan Fallenberg, Other Press
• Mussolini’s Island by Sarah Day, Tinder Press
• In the Spider’s Room by Muhammad Abdelnabi, Hoopoe
• North Facing by Tony Peake, Myriad Editions
• Blindsided by Chelsea Catherine, Texas Review Press
• Accidental Warlocks by Jeff Leavell, Lethe Press

Nonfiction

• Semi Queer: Inside the World of Gay, Trans, and Black Truck Drivers by Anne Balay, University of North Carolina Press
• Buffalo Trace: A Threefold Vibration by Mary Cappello, James Morrison & Jean Walton, Spuyten Duyvil
• Good As You: From Prejudice to Pride – 30 Years of Gay Britain by Paul Flynn, Ebury Press
• Tongue Tied: Untangling Communication in Sex, Kink, and Relationships by Stella Harris, Cleis Press

LGBT Studies

• No Sanctuary: Teachers and the School Reform That Brought Gay Rights to the Masses by Stephen Lane, ForeEdge
• Old Futures: Speculative Fiction and Queer Possibility by Alexis Lothian, NYU Press
• Queer People of Color: Connected but Not Comfortable by Angelique Harris, Juan Battle & Antonio (Jay) Pastrana Jr., FirstForumPress
• She Called Me Woman: Nigeria’s Queer Women Speak edited by Azeenarh Mohammed, Chitra Nagarajan & Rafeeat Aliyu, Cassava Republic Press

Young Adult and Children’s Literature

• Nate Expectations by Tim Federle, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
• Rabbit & Robot by Andrew Smith, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
• Black Wings Beating by Alex London, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Kens by Raziel Reid, Penguin Teen
• Now I’m Here by Jim Provenzano, Beautiful Dreamer Press
• Changers Book Four: Forever by T Cooper & Allison Glock-Cooper, Black Sheep
• The Navigator’s Touch by Julia Ember, Duet
• Trans Teen Survival Guide by Fox Fisher & Owl Fisher, Jessica Kingsley Publishers
• The Sisters from the Stars by Amy Heart, Heartspark Press
• My Life as a Diamond by Jenny Manzer, Orca Book Publishers
• For a Muse of Fire by Heidi Heilig, Greenwillow Books

Romance

• Proxima Five by Missouri Vaun, Bold Strokes Books
• Fate’s Instruments by H. Nigel Thomas, Guernica Editions
• Passionate Rivals by Radclyffe, Bold Strokes Books
• Savior by Rhys Ford, Dreamspinner Press
• Saddle Up by A.M. Arthur, Carina Press
• Jacob’s Grace by C.P. Rowlands, Bold Strokes Books
• Queen of Hearts by Sheryl Wright, Bella Books
• Shadowboxer by Jessica L. Webb, Bold Strokes Books
• Racing Hearts by Dena Blake, Bold Strokes Books
• On the Fly by PJ Trebelhorn, Bold Strokes Books
• Three Reasons to Say Yes by Jaime Clevenger, Bella Books
• Drumbeat by A.M. Liebowitz, Supposed Crimes
• The Second Time Around by Rowan McAllister, Dreamspinner Press
• A Fighting Chance by T L Hayes, Bold Strokes Books
• The Nerd and the Prince by B.G. Thomas, Dreamspinner Press
• The Academy by Quinn Anderson, Riptide Publishing
• Love at First Hate by Jl Merrow, Riptide Publishing
• Chosen by Brey Willows, Bold Strokes Books

Graphic Novels/Illustrated Books

• Home After Dark by David Small, Liveright
• My Brother’s Husband, Volume 2 by Gengoroh Tagame and Anne Ishii, Pantheon
• Check, Please!: #Hockey by Ngozi Ukazu, First Second
• Escape Journey, Vol. 1 by Ogeretsu Tanaka, VIZ Media: SuBLime
• Flocks by L. Nichols, Secret Acres

Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror

• Mother of Invention edited by Rivqa Rafael & Tansy Rayner Roberts, Twelfth Planet Press
• The Dreaming Stars by Tim Pratt, Angry Robot
• 2 Degrees by Bev Prescott, Bywater Books
• The Tattered Lands by Barbara Ann Wright, Bold Strokes Books
• Straight Men by Jonathan W. Thurston, Black Rose Writing
• Gnarled Hollow by Charlotte Greene, Bold Strokes Books

Mystery/Thriller

• Idyll Hands by Stephanie Gayle, Seventh Street Books
• Maggie Terry by Sarah Schulman, Feminist Press
• Black Diamond Fall by Joseph Olshan, Polis Books
• The Mystery of the Moving Image by C.S. Poe, DSP Publications
• FlabberGassed by Michael Craft, Questover Press
• Justice Calls by Ann Roberts, Bella Books
• Death Checks In by David S. Pederson, Bold Strokes Books

Bio/Memoir

• Trans Figured: My Journey from Boy to Girl to Woman to Man by Brian Belovitch, Skyhorse Publishing
• Looking for Lorraine: The Radiant and Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry by Imani Perry, Beacon Press
• Fashion Climbing: A Memoir with Photographs by Bill Cunningham, Penguin Press
• Flipping the Script: Bouncing Back From Life’s Rock Bottom Moments by AJ Gibson, Mango
• Perfectly Clear: Escaping Scientology and Fighting for the Woman I Love by Michelle LeClair, Berkley
• Flat: Reclaiming My Body from Breast Cancer by Catherine Guthrie, Skyhorse Publishing
• A Certain Loneliness by Sandra Gail Lambert, University of Nebraska Press
• Becoming Hope: Removing the Disguise by Hope Giselle, BookBaby
• Pink Ink by Harry Cook, Finch Publishing

Poetry

• Evolution by Eileen Myles, Grove Press
• On My Way To Liberation by H. Melt, Haymarket Books
• My Girl’s Green Jacket by Mary Meriam, Headmistress Press
• Black Queer Hoe by Britteney Black Rose Kapri, Haymarket Books
• Comfort Measures Only: New and Selected Poems, 1994–2016 by Rafael Campo, Duke University Press
• Not Everything Thrown Starts a Revolution by Stephen S. Mills, Sibling Rivalry Press
• The Small Way by Onjana Yawnghwe, Caitlin Press
• Red Channel in the Rupture by Amber Flora Thomas, Red Hen Press
• Love Dream With Television by Hannah Ensor, Noemi Press
• The Rise of Genderqueer by Wren Hanks, Brain Mill Press
• Justice Piece // Transmission by Lauren Levin, Timeless, Infinite Light
• Refuse by Julian Randall, University of Pittsburgh Press
• Who Is Trixie the Trasher? and Other Questions by Jane Miller, Copper Canyon Press
• Holy Wild by Gwen Benaway, Bookthug
• Drive Here and Devastate Me by Megan Falley, Write Bloody Publishing
• Another Phase by Eloise Klein Healy, Red Hen Press
• Othered by Randi M Romo, Sibling Rivalry Press
• Modern Love by Thomas Mayer, Verge Books
• High Line Scavenger Hunt by Lucas Crawford, University of Calgary Press