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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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
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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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