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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Fans of openly gay stand-up comedian, Bob Smith will be delighted with his new book, Treehab. It’s filled with humorous stories and brilliant one-liners. Nevertheless, there is a dark shadow hanging over these dozen essays, because Mr. Smith reveals
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Here’s something you might have missed–this queer reader almost did: Edmund White has written a novel that may well be his best. Take a moment for that to sink in.
Our Young Man is the epic gay novel Edmund White
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Let’s face it: short story collections can be a tough sell. Even the best of them include a few clunkers. Some even throw in some unpublished fragments: bits of what might have been a novel (novella?), but didn’t quite flesh
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If you’re looking for a good summer read, consider James Magruder’s Love Slaves of Helen Hadley Hall. It follows the stories of the residents of a Yale dormitory in the school year of 1983-1984. In all the there are
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