Lambda Literary Award Finalist How were women’s relationships depicted in plays, dramas, poetry, and novels before the 21st Century? In Inseparable: Desire Between Women in Literature (Knopf), Emma ...
From Shakespeare to Sarah Waters Emma Donoghue launched her writing career (after she was fired from her job as a chambermaid) at 23 with a two-book deal with Penguin. She’s since written more than ...
Thalia Book Club: Emma Donoghue’s ROOM In her only New York City appearance, Emma Donoghue discusses her extraordinary new novel with author Michael Cunningham. Monday, December 6 @ 7:30PM Symph...
Yesterday, the industry pub, Library Journal announced their first ever “Top Ten Best Books List.” And we weren’t surprised to see two Lambda favorites on this list — Michael Cunni...
Author Lucy Jane Bledsoe speaks on using fiction to explore a hidden queer history: "As I dug and wrote, dug and wrote, I wanted, most of all, to find evidence that Aunt Lucybelle had lived a happy li...
"Just as the world of publishing seemed a little toy-like to me after my brush with cancer, my self-importance as a writer, the hallmark of my thirties, seems a little silly to me right now."...
The power of The Evening Chorus is accumulation: a plot that unfolds at a comfortable pace, characters that feel usual, even ordinary, and thus interesting in their familiarity, and exquisite...
Blackmail, My Love is a book to read for the page-turning mystery, but to savor for the nuance and detail and heart-breaking reality of what it was to be a lesbian or a gay man in 1951 ...