‘Love Slaves of Helen Hadley Hall’ by James Magruder
This sparkling novel owes much of its success to Magruder’s remarkable ability to manipulate words to get to the heart of all matters, especially matters of the heart
Adam Haslett: On Masculinity, Being Fearless, and the Power of Ambiguity
“Imagine Me Gone is the most personal book I’ve written, since I used the fact there is mental illness in my own family more directly than I have in anything else.”
‘Arcade’ by Drew Nellins Smith
In Drew Nellins Smith’s debut novel, Arcade, Sam, an awkward, likable late 20-something, guides us through a XXX video store on the outskirts of a Texas town
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
‘The Halo’ by C. Dale Young
In a mythic landscape populated by Greek gods, wolfish men and flightless angels, C. Dale Young’s The Halo, the poet’s fourth and latest collection, explores intersecting mandalas of memory, legend and the quest for self-actualization
Garrard Conley: On Surviving Ex-Gay Therapy, Writing His Memoir, and the Year in Queer Lit
“I remember in the 90s and even early 00s, the idea was still prevalent in popular culture and the media that gay sex equaled death. When you’re in this religious environment, it complicates it even further.”
‘Say Bye to Reason and Hi to Everything’ Edited by Andrew Durbin
With Say Bye to Reason and Hi to Everything, Andrew Durbin collects five individual chapbooks spanning poetic and essayistic forms, by five writers, all women: Dodie Bellamy, Cecilia Corrigan, Amy De’Ath, Lynne Tillman, and Jackie Wang
‘Infidels’ by Abdellah Taïa
Abdellah Taïa’s Infidels is a story about the protagonist Jallal’s fall–out of boyhood, into love, out of innocence, into Jihad.
‘Imagine Me Gone’ by Adam Haslett
Adam Haslett immerses his novel of familial strife in contemporary ideas about racial and economic justice in America
Nicole Dennis-Benn, Marlon James, Queer Robin Hood, and More LGBT News
Being queer and Jamaican, same gender loving Robin Hood, and more lgbt news…
