Sara Rauch, Author at Lambda Literary Review

November 20, 2017 3 min read

That Inevitable Victorian Thing is billed as a young adult book, but as is often the case with this category, older readers will also enjoy this inventive royal coming-of-age fairy tale Read More

‘The Lauras’ by Sara Taylor

Sara Rauch

Reviews

August 3, 2017 3 min read

The Lauras is many types of book: it is a road trip book, a coming-of-age tale, a mother-child story; it is full of ghosts and yearning and sacrifice and discovery. Read More

Chavisa Woods on War, Magical Realism, and Writing Marginalized Characters

Sara Rauch

Interviews

May 6, 2017 26 min read

"I was thinking about all the very specific elements that make up the poor, rural heartland, and I really wanted to paint a full picture of something very uniquely American, these eccentric individuals who feel out of place in their own home" Read More

Meredith Maran on Her New Memoir and the Definition of Happiness

Sara Rauch

Interviews

April 22, 2017 8 min read

"I find that the way I define and feel happiness keeps changing. Going through the worst time of my life definitely lowered the bar, which is actually a good thing." Read More

‘The New Old Me: My Late-Life Reinvention’ by Meredith Maran

Sara Rauch

Reviews

March 19, 2017 2 min read

This memoir will resonate with anyone, regardless of age, who has loved and lost and survived Read More

‘Abandon Me’ by Melissa Febos

Sara Rauch

Bio/Memoir Reviews

February 5, 2017 3 min read

Abandon Me is a fierce exploration of love and obsession Read More

‘The Kissing Booth Girl and Other Stories’ by A.C. Wise

Sara Rauch

Reviews Speculative Fiction

November 5, 2016 2 min read

The Kissing Booth Girl and Other Stories is achingly smart, sad, and weird in equal measure Read More

‘The Jungle Around Us’ by Anne Raeff

Sara Rauch

Fiction Reviews

October 30, 2016 2 min read

The slow, measured prose of these nine interrelated tales approaches big topics—loneliness, belonging, death, fear—and yet, Anne Raeff’s stories are intimate, character driven, and incredibly subtle Read More

‘Vow of Celibacy’ by Erin Judge

Sara Rauch

Fiction Reviews

September 6, 2016 2 min read

Vow of Celibacy, stand-up comedian Erin Judges dishy debut novel, plunges the reader directly into the world of Natalie—bisexual, plus-sized fashion maven, and undertaker of the titular vow. Read More

‘Black Wave’ by Michelle Tea

Sara Rauch

Fiction Reviews

August 28, 2016 2 min read

Black Wave is about queer subculture and the importance of storytelling, and it’s an existential meditation on the consequences of choice. Read More

Reviews

Unearthing Queer Archive in Early 1990’s West Palm Beach, Florida

The Mars House: Science Fiction and the Hazards of Imagination

Maps of Belonging: Italian Trans Geographies

Random

The Queerness of Robots

Features

Unearthing Queer Archive in Early 1990’s West Palm Beach, Florida

Maps of Belonging: Italian Trans Geographies

Dreaming up a Hopeful Future: A Conversation with Grist authors on queer climate fiction

Interviews

Bonds & Boundaries: A Conversation with Dale Corvino

Dreaming up a Hopeful Future: A Conversation with Grist authors on queer climate fiction

“What if it was both and all of the above?”: An interview with CJ Hauser

Excerpts

An Excerpt from Sleep Tight Satellite: Stories by Carol Guess

Read This! Excerpt from the delicacy of embracing spirals by mimi tempestt

Read This! Excerpt from American Gospel by Miah Jeffra

‘That Inevitable Victorian Thing’ by E.K. Johnston

‘The Lauras’ by Sara Taylor

Chavisa Woods on War, Magical Realism, and Writing Marginalized Characters

Meredith Maran on Her New Memoir and the Definition of Happiness

‘The New Old Me: My Late-Life Reinvention’ by Meredith Maran

‘Abandon Me’ by Melissa Febos

‘The Kissing Booth Girl and Other Stories’ by A.C. Wise

‘The Jungle Around Us’ by Anne Raeff

‘Vow of Celibacy’ by Erin Judge

‘Black Wave’ by Michelle Tea

Reviews

Random

Features

Interviews

Excerpts

Author Sara Rauch