With all the excitement over the up and coming queer authors of our time–Ocean Vuong, Lydia Conklin, Douglas Stuart, David Santos Donaldson, Nicole Dennis-Benn, Edward Cahill, to name just a few–it’s easy to lose sight of the fact that many
It’s hard to believe today, but when this website began fifteen years ago Queer Literature was defined almost exclusively as Gay and Lesbian. Times have certainly changed. And nowhere is this more apparent than in Rainbow Rainbow, Lydia Conklin’s
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In the nineteen-seventies, a generation of queers saw their reflection in the exuberant prose of Andrew Holleran’s Dancer from the Dance. In his new novel, Kingdom of Sand, Mr. Holleran explores nothing less than the nature of Queer
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Let’s face it. Short story collections often make for a choppy reading experience. Even the best of them are a challenge to read from cover to cover. Two magnificent exceptions are Sherwood Anderson’s Winesburg Ohio and Patrick Ryan’s The Dream
Edmund White’s new novel might be his sexiest yet. And that’s saying a lot. In A Previous Life, Ruggero, a Sicilian aristocrat, and his young wife, Constance, decide that in order to be totally honest with each other, they Edmund White’s New Novel is Witty, Wise and Very Sexy. Read More »
By now Queer Readers know of the sad story of Anthony Veasna So: how just months before the publication of his first book, Afterparties, he died suddenly of an accidental drug overdose. What’s missing from much of the press
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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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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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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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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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