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People Collide by Isle McElroy: A Review

Roz Milner
Fiction
3 min read
Can you ever really know someone else? The cliche is you can’t know someone until you’ve walked in their shoes. Perhaps that’s true. But does that mean you don’t know your partner? Will you ever? And if one wanted to, what would it take to get there? Read More

Writing to Herself: A Review of Love and Money, Sex and Death by McKenzie Wark

Roz Milner
Reviews
2 min read
In her new memoir Love and Money, Sex and Death, theorist and professor McKenzie Wark faces these questions. Told as a sequence of letters to everyone from her mom to ex-lovers to herself, she takes readers into her past and the experiences and people who made her what she is today. The book travels from her youth in Newcastle through time spent in China and as a professor in Sydney before ultimately settling in New York City.  Read More

Puns & Sex Clubs: A Review of The Call-Out by Cat Fitzpatrick

Roz Milner
Reviews
4 min read
Queer life in New York City has always lent itself well to poets. From established voices like Eileen Myles to newer ones like Kay Gabriel or Maggie Milliner, the rhythms and dynamics of life lend themselves well to verse. And now Cat Fitzpatrick, an editor, co-publisher of LittlePuss Press and poet, has gently satirized the Brooklyn queer scene in her new book The Call-Out, available now from Seven Stories Press. Read More

Starring in My Own Play: A Review of Cecilia Gentili’s Faltas: Letters to Everyone In My Hometown Who Isn’t My Rapist

Roz Milner
Reviews
4 min read
Cecilia Gentili’s new book Faltas: Letters to Everyone In My Hometown Who Isn’t My Rapist is a memoir that peppers a striking sense of humor into a series of memories, digressions, and insights into the lives of the lives of the people populating her hometown. Faltas avoids the trappings of many trans memoirs that make them sometimes feel like trauma porn for the cis crowd, instead breathing new life into the genre. It’s a fresh take on a stale genre.  Read More