It’s awards season again. Soon lists will be released of the best books of last year. We will know shortly whether Stephen McCauley, the author of so many consistently superb novels, will be rewarded for his efforts. It remains a
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Edmund’s White’s The Unpunished Vice is a serendipitous journey through a lifetime of reading. It begins with a lyrical, almost mystical discovery:
I remember toddling into my mother’s room, where she was taking a perfumed bubble bath in the late
Edmund White’s The Unpunished Vice is a Bibliophile’s Delight. Read More »
The mood at the Thirtieth Annual Publishing Triangle Awards ceremony was jubilantly defiant. Trent Duffy cheerfully reminded us of how far the Publishing Triangle has come. He pointed out that Edmund White was the first Bill Whitehead Lifetime Achievement Award
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Last night was a very big night in the literary world. The PEN America Awards were announced in New York. Edna O’Brien was on hand to collect her PEN/Nabokov Award for Achievement in International Literature, PEN/Jean Stein Book Award Finalist,
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Bob Smith passed on yesterday and suddenly the world seems less fun. Most people knew Bob Smith as the first openly gay comedian to perform on The Tonight Show. Others knew him through his books, in particular his novels, Selfish
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QueerReader: Since its publication, The Dream Life of Astronauts has gotten a string of positive press–culminating in a rave review in The New York Times. And this month it had its paperback printing. Are you surprised by the
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The Lambda Literary Award Finalists have been released and it is once again time to congratulate all of the finalists. As Queer Reader has pointed out, 2016 was an exceptionally good year for Queer Lit and narrowing it all
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Queer Reader predicted 2016 would be a good year for Queer Lit, but no one could have predicted just how good a year it would turn out to be. In fact, since this website was founded over eight years ago,
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This queer reader approached How to Survive a Plague hesitantly. Might it just be too difficult to return to that painful time: a time when so many friends were dying of AIDS? Well, perhaps the biggest surprise in David France’s
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To paraphrase Tolstoy, great novels are not all alike. Hanya Yanagihara’s A Little Life, for example, is like no other novel. It is an epic novel that follows several characters over decades. But what sets A Little Life apart
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