Tag: William Johnson

Read Dennis Cooper’s New Novel Composed of Animated GIFs

Zac’s Haunted House is a visual novel; it is a tale told through animated pictures.

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Malaga Baldi: Ask the Agent

“…if I am reading a novel and I start comparing it to something else that is popular or I have read…then I know something vital has been washed away.”

High-profile queer literary agent Malaga Baldi took some time to talk with the Lambda Literary Review about her life in publishing, the ins and outs of being a literary agent, and the books that inspire her.

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Luis Negrón: The Cruel Gay World

“[…]’gayness’ questions the idea that society has of itself.”

In a wry voice that seamlessly combines both sincerity and camp, Luis Negrón’s Mundo Cruel examines how desire, love, and sexuality simultaneously inspire and warp the citizens of Santurce, Puerto Rico.

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Nikky Finney: Heart, Truth, and Justice

Nikky Finney is an award-winning, southern-born poet, whose critically acclaimed work is imbued with a distinct sense of lyricism and recurring themes of both social justice and communal history.

She was recently awarded the 2011 National Book Award for her latest collection Head Off & Split. Finney took some time to talk with Lambda Literary Review about her now famous National Book Award speech, shoe shopping with Condoleezza Rice, and the dividing line between art and rhetoric.

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William Johnson: Lambda’s New Managing Editor

A Note from the New

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