It’s hard to believe today, but when this website began fifteen years ago Queer Literature was defined almost exclusively as Gay and Lesbian. Times have certainly changed. And nowhere is this more apparent than in Rainbow Rainbow, Lydia Conklin’s
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In the nineteen-seventies, a generation of queers saw their reflection in the exuberant prose of Andrew Holleran’s Dancer from the Dance. In his new novel, Kingdom of Sand, Mr. Holleran explores nothing less than the nature of Queer
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Let’s face it. Short story collections often make for a choppy reading experience. Even the best of them are a challenge to read from cover to cover. Two magnificent exceptions are Sherwood Anderson’s Winesburg Ohio and Patrick Ryan’s The Dream
Ethel Rosenberg did time here. So did Angela Davis and Afeni Shakur. Andrea Dworkin endured its notorious cavity search and, with the help of Grace Paley, publicized this barbaric practice. You won’t find their names on a plaque at the
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As homosexuality has become more and accepted, Queer Lit has the potential of becoming more and more conventional. Queer experiences in The United States–to use one example–are now mainstream. This is progress, but it also has the potential of making
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It is once again time to take a good hard look at The Publishing Triangle and Lambda Literary Finalists list. First, let’s start by congratulating all of this years finalists. With the growing number of queer-related titles published, the competition
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Edmund White’s new novel might be his sexiest yet. And that’s saying a lot. In A Previous Life, Ruggero, a Sicilian aristocrat, and his young wife, Constance, decide that in order to be totally honest with each other, they Edmund White’s New Novel is Witty, Wise and Very Sexy. Read More »
By now Queer Readers know of the sad story of Anthony Veasna So: how just months before the publication of his first book, Afterparties, he died suddenly of an accidental drug overdose. What’s missing from much of the press
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