Remember Anthony Veasna So.
By now Queer Readers know of the sad story of Anthony Veasna So: how just months before the publication of his first book, Afterparties,
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Alison Bechdel Edifies.
Alison Bechdel’s latest book is her most autobiographical and it’s also arguably her best. Once again, Ms. Bechdel takes a simple true story and fortifies it with insights and literary references which are both interesting and educational. The result is
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On the Importance of The Prophets
As the literary award season approaches, it’s time to revisit the novel that may well have changed Queer Lit forever. With The Prophets, Robert Jones Jr. shattered three assumptions about Queer Literature. The first and most obvious of these
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The Definitive Oscar Wilde Biography
As much as Queer Reader enjoyed Richard Ellman’s Oscar Wilde biography, one finished it with the impression that certain parts of the the story weren’t completely fleshed out. Although all the important events were covered, the book lacked a certain
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Let the Record Show is Magnificent.
Queer Reader approached Sarah Schulman’s latest book with some trepidation. As a veteran of ACT UP, this reviewer had grown tired of the misrepresentations, innaccuracies, and false narratives. As much as Queer Reader admired David France’s impeccably researched How to
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Advice to President Biden from a Queer Icon
John Maynard Keynes is a somewhat awkward queer icon. In his youth he had numerous gay affairs and was a member of the Bloomsbury Group, but he ultimately married a woman: the Russian ballerina, Lydia Lopokova. Throughout his life, it
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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, Pamela Sneed, will not be silenced. There is a fierce urgency to these pages. To
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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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