"When it comes to sex I love fingertips in my mouth. I can’t help it. I love Joey’s fingers in my mouth. Four fingers for every letter of the word amen."
“The Banal and the Profane” is a monthly Lambda Literary column in which we lift the veil on both the writerly life and the publishing industry. In each installment, we ask a different LGBT writer, or LGBT person of interest in the book industry, to guide us through a week in their lives.
This month’s “Banal and Profane” column comes to us from writer Leon Baham. Read More
New Month! New Books!
This month expect new releases from renowned cartoonist Ellen Forney, novelist Colm Tóibín, author and publisher Jameson Currier, and a new graphic memoir from Cristy C. Road. Read More
Sinister Wisdom is one of the greatest historical resources for the lesbian community. As the oldest surviving lesbian literary journal, it is now celebrating 37 years in publishing. Devoted to publishing work that represents the whole spectrum of lesbian lives, Sinister Wisdom emphasizes lesbians’ voices with a variety of complex identities. Read More
October brings with it a great selection of new LGBTQ books!
This month expect new releases from novelist Emma Donoghue, Beth Ditto, Will Schwalbe, Tom Léger, Riley MacLeod and poet Peter Covino, Read More
The French writer Tereska Torrès, who was best known for her controversial pulp novel Women’s Barracks, died on Thursday in her...
Experimental filmmaker and poet James Broughton—whose 1967 classic film, The Bed raised eyebrows with its liberal use of joyous nudity—is...
Put on your reading glasses and get happy! September is chock-full of fantastic new LGBTQ books.
This month expect new releases from J. Jack Halberstam, E.J. Levy, Michal Witkowski, Lesléa Newman, Jaime Manrique, and Michael Lowenthal. Read More
Do you have problems with your love life? Hate your job? Your social life lacking that certain zing? All questions can be answered through literature—or maybe at least by the people who create it. With that in mind, we here at The Lambda Literary Review have started our very own advice column called “Reader Meet Author.”
This month’s column is handled by author Laurie Weeks. Read More
Famed humorist, author, and National Public Radio personality David Rakoff died on Thursday after a protracted battle with cancer. He was 47.
Rakoff published three essay collections:Fraud, Don’t Get Too Comfortable, and Half Empty. He was awarded the 2006 Lambda Literary Award for Humor for Don’t Get Too Comfortable. Read More
Mark O’Donnell, the Tony winning writer behind Hairspray and Cry-Baby and author of the novel Getting Over Homer, died Monday morning in...
