It’s official: Don Wiese has launched Magnus Books, an independent press dedicated to LGBT literature. Magnus will publish fifteen to twenty titles a year.
As I have written before, I believe that Don Wiese is one of the best
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It’s official: Don Wiese has left Alyson Books. This is terrible news for queer readers. Mr. Wiese is an excellent editor. He transformed Carrol and Graf into a high quality publishing house. And he published quite a few high quality
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Today is the birthday of Abraham Lincoln. It’s a good time to read (or re-read) C.A. Tripp’s The Intimate World of Abraham Lincoln. In it, Mr. Tripp intelligently makes the argument that President Lincoln was gay.
Abraham Lincoln is depicted
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Today is the birthday of Edmund White. It’s a good time to reflect on the courage of one of America’s great writers. Courage is not a word often used when describing today’s American writers, but Mr. White is different. We
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This website began on a down note. Gay and Lesbian bookstores were closing. Queer Lit was increasingly marginalized. Carrol and Graf was shuttered. Could it be possible, I wondered, to honestly recommend, say, one queer book a month? I had
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By now, you’ve probably heard the sad, sad news that our beloved Oscar Wilde Bookshop will soon be closing. Recent visitors to the Oscar Wilde Bookshop probably didn’t realize they had arrived at a historic location. Older queers might have
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