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.
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
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
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
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
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