‘Talk’ by Linda Rosenkrantz
Talk is a slender novel narrowly focused on three friends slowly embracing adulthood as the nation prepares to lose much of its innocence. It’s blazingly witty, unexpectedly touching, and note-perfect.
‘Let Me Explain You’ by Annie Liontas
Let Me Explain You is a story about relationships—between sisters, between countrymen, between people and place, between food and memory, between languages, between time and space
Blacklight: Commentary on the Past, Present, and Future of LGBTQ Crime Fiction
“My hope is that this column will promote quality crime stories written by or about our community…”
‘Skyscraping’ by Cordelia Jensen
Captivating you in the first few pages, visionary author Cordelia Jensen has put forth Skyscraping, a semi-autobiographical novel in verse for young readers
Author Quintan Ana Wikswo on the Limitations and Power of Labels
“Primarily, I wanted to see if I could write a book in which issues of love, erotics, desire, and sex could be momentarily liberated from conventional categorizations of gender identity.”
A Poem by Diana Hamilton
This week, a poem by
New in August: James Sie, David Levithan, Casey McKittrick, and Kim van Alkemade
New month, new books
‘The Small Backs of Children’ by Lidia Yuknavitch
The plot centers on an orphaned child from a war torn Eastern European country, and how her life captivates and unsettles a group of western artists
Personal Advice from Author Dale Peck: Help, I am an Overly Jealous Boyfriend!
“Is there a way to deal with sexual jealousy?”
“All Losses Are the Same” But Every Rediscovery of a Lesbian Poet Gives Us New Life
Catherine Breese Davis’ poems are taut and formal, with close attention to the power of compressed language
