Jill Malone’s Giraffe People (Bywater Books) is a rich exploration of character Cole Peters’s adolescent angst: difficult parents, irascible siblings, evil...
After finishing up a recent interview with Christine Stark, I thought: “Whew, that was uncomfortable.” And it was. Not because...
By Blood, Ellen Ullman’s latest novel, is a noir gem. The novel is creepy-exciting and skillfully ironic at almost every turn, with a narrator’s voice snaking through the measured text. It is a voice that is appalling, brilliantly perverted, cunning and smart—and desperate for redemption. Read More
The editors of Hellebore & Rue, Joselle Vanderhooft and Catherine Lundoff, have put together a collection that has a little of something for everyone, and will not disappoint readers who love and appreciate the complexities of fantasy fiction’s many cultural connections and narratives. Read More
Happy Accidents (Voice), Jane Lynch’s breezy memoir about her life and work as a post-Stonewall American actor, has something for...
Theodora (Penguin Press) as history is fascinating. Stella Duffy’s historical novel about the most progressive empress of Byzantium and wife of...
‘My West: Personal Writings on the American West — Past, Present and Future’ by Patricia Nell Warren
I am delighted to say I thoroughly enjoyed Patricia Nell Warren’s My West (Wild Cat Press), a collection of previously...
I was 15 years old in the summer of 1969, the summer Woodstock happened: Jimi Hendrix’s scorching “Star-Spangled Banner” sliding...
2011 Lambda Literary Award Finalist Lucy Jane Bledsoe’s deftly structured novel of Antarctica, The Big Bang Symphony (Terrace), is confidently...
