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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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 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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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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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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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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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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It’s astonishing how good How We Fight For Our Lives is. Though the title implies a polemic, Saeed Jones’s latest book is oh, so much more than that. It is a lyrical memoir: an important book that will be read–and
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In September it was announced that Ocean Vuong had been awarded the MacArthur Foundation’s “Genius Award”. Queer Reader has never described an author as a “genius”, but in this case the word is entirely appropriate. Ocean Vuong is a brilliant
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Last night it was announced that Alexander Chee’s How to Write an Autobiographical Novel won the Publishing Triangle’s Randy Shilts Award for Gay Non-fiction.
Imani Perry won the Judy Grahn Award for Looking for Loraine: The Radiant Radical Life of
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