‘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
A Poem by Lisa Summe
This week, a poem by
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
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
28th Annual Lambda Literary Awards, Monday, June 6th
The Lambda Literary Awards celebrate excellence in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender literature
‘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.
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.”
‘Queering Sexual Violence: Radical Voices from Within the Anti-Sexual Violence Movement’ Edited by Jennifer Patterson
Queering Sexual Violence is something of a collectively written open letter to what Patterson refers to as “the non-profit industrial complex,” which has consistently overlooked and undervalued the experiences and insights of queer survivors of sexual violence
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.'”
