Read Pamela Sneed’s Funeral Diva.
Funeral Diva is the self-portrait of a woman who our society does its very best to ignore: black, queer, statuesque, outspoken. But this particular woman,
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2020
Douglas Stuart’s Shuggie Bain is Heartbreaking, Unforgettable.
Though portrayed by the popular culture as a joyous, carefree time, childhoods are often far from that–particularly for those who are sensitive and different. For these people, childhood isn’t the happiest time of their lives. Precisely the opposite. Because it
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Garth Greenwell’s Cleanness is his Best.
It was of course, F. Scott Fitzgerald who wrote that authors have “two or three great and moving experiences” in their lives:
“…experiences so great and moving that it doesn’t seem at the time anyone else has been so caught
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People of Color Dominated Queer Lit in 2019
It’s time to get real. In the first year of this website’s publication, 2008, all of the books QueerReader recommended were written by white people. Last year none of them were. It’s important to keep in mind that 2019
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Jericho Brown’s The Tradition Wins the Pulitzer Prize.
Yesterday it was announced that Jericho Brown’s The Tradition won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. Rarely has a collection displayed the depth and breadth of poet’s talent as well as this volume does. Blackness plays a big role in
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Girl, Woman, Other is Surprisingly Entertaining.
Girl, Woman, Other is an important feminist novel. It tells the stories of twelve women in an experimental style that is both readable and entirely fitting for these characters. Reading this Booker Prize-winning novel is an edifying experience. But it
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Don’t Forget Patsy.
In some respects the literary award season isn’t all that different from the film award season. The most recent releases have an advantage. And sometimes those released earlier are forgotten. As this year’s queer lit award season approaches, queer reader
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The Publishing Triangle’s Finalists List Has Some Surprises.
This year’s Publishing Triangle Award Finalists list has some surprises. For a start, Nicole Dennis-Benn’s Patsy is not a finalist for any of these awards. More on this later. Also, Bernardine Evaristo’s Girl, Woman, Other has been nominated for the
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The Lambda Literary Finalists
Today Lambda Literary announced the 2020 finalists. Ocean Vuong’s On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous is a finalist for Gay Fiction, Saeed Jones’s How We Fight For Our Lives is a finalist for Gay Memoir and Nicole Dennis-Benn’s Patsy is a
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Happy 100th Birthday to the Friends of Dorothy!
Blame it on Billie Burke. It was her phone call to Vanity Fair in late 1919 that started it all. She was angry at Frank Crowninshield for publishing a review of a Somerset Maugham comedy. The review likened her performance
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