This month Bloomsbury USA is releasing the first full length–and much buzzed about– biography of queer downtown artist, activist, and provocateur David Wojnarowicz. Wojnarowicz, who...
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.”
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Author and bon mot thrower Truman Capote once said of Jack Kerouac's writing, "That's not writing, that's typing." Now you can have that famed witticism--and many more--on a set of cleverly art directed posters. New York-based artist Evan Robertson has created a series of posters inspired by some of the most well known and turned out literary one liners. Read More
"A more recent book that blew my mind was Larry Kramer's The Tragedy Of Today's Gays. The truth hurts, but Larry isn't afraid to tell it. I actually attended the speech at Cooper Union where he read this work in its entirety. I trembled and sobbed in the presence of this man—frail, yet so impassioned. He's one of my heroes and I look forward to The American People, which he's been penning for years. That one I'll definitely read and it's going to be a long, heavy one so I hope to be over my reading slump for that."
The Lambda Literary Awards are this upcoming Monday June 4th, in New York City and the incomparable drag-superstar Lady Bunny is DJing the afterparty. That being said, we thought this would be a good opportunity to have a little book chat with the drag star. 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 celebrated author Scott Heim. Read More
Actor Rupert Everett is set to make his first directorial outing with a film about Oscar Wilde–tentatively titled The Happy Prince. NYMag reports:...
Time to shatter that Fortress of Solitude. At the recent Kapow Comic Book Conference, DC Comics co-publisher Dan DiDio stated...
Henry Holt/Macmillan recently released Most Talkative, a new memoir from Bravo network mastermind Andy Cohen.
In this clip from the audio-book, Andy reminiscences on his first celebrity pow wow--a meeting with the soap-opera diva Susan Lucci. Read More
The Lambda Literary Foundation, the country's leading national nonprofit organization for the LGBT literary community, is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2012 Outstanding Mid-Career Novelist Prize. This year the prize recognizes Stacey D'Erasmo (A Seahorse Year) and Brian Leung (Take Me Home). Read More
"If you stumble upon negative comments concerning your body or your personality, remember that the online universe equalizes every utterance, and that negative or humiliating comments concerning your body or your personality weigh no more than a feather. Imagine the feather blowing away."
Poet, critic, and author Wayne Koestenbaum took some time to talk with Lambda about the process of writing about humiliation, Harpo Marx, and how poetry informs his cultural criticism. Read More
