Acclaimed funny-guy and memoirist Augusten Burroughs' latest book, This is How: Help For the Self, Proven Aid in Overcoming Shyness, Molestation, Fatness, Spinsterhood, Grief, Disease, Lushery, Decrepitude, and More, for Young and Old Alike (St. Martin's Press) is, as the title implies, an eclectic, entertaining, and refreshingly ill-tempered self-help book. Read More
"I hope to start building up the careers of a lot of writers I deeply believe in, but because of their outsiderness in the literary world do not have careers at the levels they deserve."
Writer Michelle Tea recently signed an imprint with the legendary City Light Books, and Lambda had the enlightening opportunity of interviewing her about money, work, activism, sustenance, and her new imprint. Read More
A lot of movement in the queer writing world lately. Lawyer, activist, and Lambda Finalist Dean Spade is on a...
Spanning the breadth of her parents’ tumultuous relationship and ending with the aftermath of her mother’s death, author, therapist, and...
Writers know that writing is complicated. Any written piece is a performance, a tightly condensed fragment of an idea. Every body of work is merely a thread of a broader story, a story so vastly complex that no alphanumerical symbol, no string of words, no structure of grammar or symbolic stroke could ever fully hold it. Read More
In the intro to Canteen's "Hot Authors" issue, the editors ask, “What is it about being literary that has become so boring, so staid, so - dare we suggest it - dignified?"
Dignified, indeed. The writing life can be a real kill-joy; we work hard to keep a lid on the crazy, to mime leading more stable or wealthy or professional lives than we actually do. Read More
The Brown Boi Project’s Freeing Ourselves: A Guide to Health and Self-Love for Brown Bois is a beautifully constructed, deeply thoughtful, and powerfully political health guide by and for masculine of center/transgender/gender non-conforming people of color. Read More
Ever since I finished reading Robert Coover‘s The Adventure’s of Lucky Pierre: Director’s Cut last week, I’ve mostly been thinking...
"But most people just hate discomfort and uncertainty, and will go to all lengths to avoid it, even in the art they engage. That kind of person will find The Vicious Red Relic,Love too jumpy, heady, and heavy. Maybe too unresolved. I think the book speaks to people who are already very courageous."
Author Anna Joy Springer took some time to talk with Lambda about her latest novel, The Vicious Red Relic, Love, her work as a professor, domestic violence within lesbian communities, and forgiveness. Read More
As many queer writers know, story-telling is a powerful tool to place ourselves and our communities in the world, whether...
