Out of the Dungeons and onto the Bookshelf: Leather Writers in a Post-‘Fifty Shades’ Literary World
Authors Sassafras Lowrey, Laura Antoniou, and Cecilia Tan discuss BDSM writing in a post-Fifty Shades literary world
‘The Song in My Heart’ by Tracey Richardson
The Song in My Heart is about finding passion in life. It’s about relationships and how what we may think we want isn’t always what’s best for us.
‘Night at the Fiestas’ by Kirstin Valdez Quade
At its best, Kirstin Valdez Quade’s new collection of stories, Night at the Fiestas, sidesteps cliché but keeps the grandeur of her setting by transposing it to her characters—people big as myth, opaque as Scripture
‘Two Augusts in a Row in a Row’ by Shelley Marlow
Two Augusts in a Row in a Row is a novel about gender, love, grief and magic.
Reader Meet Author: Personal Advice from Author Lashonda Katrice Barnett
“I worry that my friend’s dating standards are too high.”
‘The Conversation’ by Judith Barrington and ‘Love Will Burst Into a Thousand Shapes’ by Jane Eaton Hamilton
Together, The Conversation and Love Will Burst into a Thousand Shapes demonstrate some of the vibrancy of contemporary lesbian poetry.
‘Wuvable Oaf’ by Ed Luce
Wuvable Oaf is the tale of a big, hairy, gay ex-wrestler’s search for love in San Francisco
‘Sphinx’ by Anne Garréta
Sphinx, on the surface, is a standard story of love and loss. But that’s about all that’s standard here. You won’t get past the first page without asking questions, and by the time you turn the last one, you’ll be no closer to an answer
Jonathan Galassi: On Publishing, Poetry vs. Prose, and Meeting Your Literary Heroes
“I chose to write about publishing because it’s the world I know best, and because I wanted to leave a record of a way of working that really is gone now.”
