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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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 month, QueerReader.com quietly celebrated it’s seventh anniversary. It’s a good time to take stock.
When this website was launched, there were literally LGBT bookstores from coast to coast. A Different Light had branches in Los Angeles and San Francisco.
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On Tuesday, the Publishing Triangle announced the finalists for their annual awards. As Queer Reader has noted before, 2014 was a surprisingly good year for queer fiction–making the task of narrowing it all down particularly difficult. For the most
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The Lambda Literary Award Finalists were announced yesterday and this year they had some tough choices to make. In a particularly strong year for fiction, there were bound to be some worthy books left out. But let’s start first with
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Here’s something you might have missed: 2014 was a good year for Queer Lit. It began with the publication of The Days of Anna Madrigal: the final volume of Armistead Maupin’s Tales of the City series. Then came Edmund
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Let’s get this out of the way first: John Irving’s In One Person is a finalist for a Lambda Literary Award. As queer readers will recall, I loved this book. It is the best queer novel of 2012 and may
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The Publishing Triangle Awards are tomorrow night. I have mixed feelings about literary awards. Most writers have a distinct strain of competitiveness running through them. And I’m not sure at all sure this should be encouraged. Nevertheless, a nomination for
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I’m old enough to remember a time when literally everyone I knew regularly visited a bookstore named A Different Light. I am actually referring to the first New York location–on Hudson Street. That store functioned as something of a drop-in
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