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Read This! An Excerpt From Patrick Nathan’s ‘Some Hell’

Some Hell is a harrowing novel about a gay teen’s coming of age

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Author Michael Nava on Creating the Iconic Gay Character Henry Rios

This month, Korima Press is releasing Lay Your Sleeping Head, an imaginative reworking of writer Michael Nava’s classic mystery novel The Little Death. Nava’s introduction for the new novel reveals the history behind the creation of the protagonist Henry Rios

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Read an Excerpt from Nicole Dennis-Benn’s Stunning New Novel ‘Here Comes The Sun’

Here Comes The Sun  maps a family’s struggle to gain independence and freedom in a world where both don’t come easy

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Read an Excerpt From Joe Okonkwo’s New Novel ‘Jazz Moon’

Jazz Moon is an evocative novel that maps one character’s journey of self-discovery during the height of the Jazz Age

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Read Jewelle Gomez’s New Foreword for ‘The Gilda Stories: Expanded 25th Anniversary Edition’

“There were those who didn’t think a black lesbian vampire story—benevolent or not—was such a good idea politically.”

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Read an Excerpt from Edmund White’s New Novel ‘Our Young Man’

“Although Guy was thirty-five he was still working as a model, and certain of his more ironic and cultured friends called him, as the dying Proust had been called by Colette, ‘our young man.'”

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Read an Excerpt from Ann McMan’s New Novel ’Backcast’

Humor and heart go hand in hand in Backcast, a new novel from writer Ann McMan

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Burn, Bodice, Burn

The following excerpt is from The State of Our Union: A Collage, an essay collection from Julie Marie Wade

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Read an Excerpt from Michael Cunningham’s New Collection ’A Wild Swan and Other Tales’

A Wild Swan and Other Tales is a short story collection that offers contemporary renditions of popular fairy tales

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