It is once again time to take a good hard look at The Publishing Triangle and Lambda Literary Finalists list. First, let’s start by congratulating all of this years finalists. With the growing number of queer-related titles published, the competition
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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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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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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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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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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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