Tag: Christopher Bram

‘The Art of History’ by Christopher Bram

Bram’s The Art of History, Unlocking the Past in Fiction & Nonfiction is a brisk and entertaining jog through 29 great books and how authors grappled with history in their writing

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Bob Smith: On Religion, Life with ALS, His Love of Nature, and His New Book ‘Treehab’

“I want a God who’s not meaner than I am.”

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Philip Clark on Unearthing the Poetry of Donald Britton

“If anything, the poems are testament to an eye and a mind that was looking at the world on a different wavelength: there’s a remarkable particularity of language matched with fresh and jarring images.”

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Yarrott Benz: On Revisiting a Harrowing Adolescence and Writing His New Memoir ‘The Bone Bridge’

“Whether I like it or not, the story of The Bone Bridge is the defining story of my life.”

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John Schuyler Bishop: The Strange Loves of Henry David Thoreau

“In all I read about him, Thoreau never really became more than the wooden icon who tramped the woods and wrote brilliant essays. But he was a living, breathing, gay man who yearned for love…”

A few bold scholars have explored the mystery of Henry David Thoreau’s love life, but author John Schuyler Bishop has now written a novel about it, appropriately titled Thoreau in Love.

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Christopher Bram: LGBT Writers in Schools

“Reading is a very private experience, so private it can seem solipsistic at times. It’s necessary to talk about books now and then, just to get out of our heads and into the world.”

Author Christopher Bram talked with the Lambda Literary Review about his work, his support of the LGBT community, and his participation in the LGBT Writers in Schools program.

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5th Annual Lambda Literary Awards

Children’s/Young Adult Literature WINNER: When Heroes

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