‘I Left It on the Mountain’ by Kevin Sessums
I Left It On the Mountain is a spiritual page-turner.
Mark Merlis: On His New Novel ‘JD,’ His Writing Process, and the Autobiographical Details in His Work
“I don’t know how other people work, but all my work is trial and error. You start out on the path to the book you think you want to write, and you may run into a dead end—like the dumbest rat in the maze—or you may find an opening to a vista you never imagined.”
‘Daydreamers’ by Jonathan Harper
Jonathan Harper’s debut collection Daydreamers is aptly named: each story contains the ruminations of young men drifting through their lives, either making bad choices or failing to choose
‘Call Me Home’ by Megan Kruse
Call Me Home, as the title implies, focuses very strongly on the idea of home. It’s place-based for sure, but in this novel, who we call home is even more important.
Pioneering Religious Leader and Writer Malcolm Boyd, 91, Has Died
Malcolm Boyd, a noted gay spiritual leader, activist and writer, has died
‘Don’t Let Him Know’ by Sandip Roy
Sandip Roy’s Don’t Let Him Know is a multi-generational story venturing deep into the hidden pasts of a single family over the course of decades.
‘The Autumn Balloon’ by Kenny Porpora
Porpora deploys a deft hand and straightforward tone that lifts what could have easily been a maudlin, self-pitying—or, in the opposite direction, self-congratulatory—narrative into a memoir that should be moved to the top of everyone’s to-read list immediately.
‘Gay Berlin: Birthplace of a Modern Identity’ by Robert Beachy
This is an important book, and an impressive feat of scholarship drawing on nearly five hundred sources, with twenty-two pages of notes and sixteen pages of photographs.
‘The God of Longing’ by Brent Calderwood
Understated, ironic and occasionally playful, Brent Calderwood’s poems in The God of Longing are vivid and calm
Author Craig Gidney on Illuminating Race and Diversity in Speculative Fiction
“‘Death and Two Maidens’ was my response to my research on African-descended Victorians. I wanted to write a penny dreadful story that went beyond the usual (pale-skinned) cast.”
