Tag: Excerpts

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 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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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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Read an Excerpt from Jeanette Winterson’s New Novel ‘The Gap of Time’

The Gap of Time is a decidedly queer “remix” of William Shakespeare’s Winter’s Tale, from celebrated author Jeanette Winterson.

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A Look at LGBTQ Homeless Teens: Read an Excerpt from Ryan Berg’s ‘No House To Call My Home’

The book is an illuminating account of the lives of a group of New York City LGBTQ homeless youth

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Read an Excerpt from ‘The Right Side of History: 100 Years or LGBTQI Activism’: Miss Major Griffin-Gracy’s Reflections on the Stonewall Riots

“The night of Stonewall, two friends and I sat in Sheridan Square talking with the boys, trying to have a good time.”

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Read Jericho Brown’s Introduction to ‘Prime: Poetry & Conversation’

“For a poem to coalesce, for a character or an action to take shape, there has to be an imaginative transformation of reality which is in no way passive.”

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Read an Excerpt from Alexis De Veaux’s New Book ‘Yabo’

Yabo lyrically maps the spiritual and physical borders between love, passion, sexuality, and gender.

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