Yesterday morning, as the New York Times published their obituary of one of the world’s most beloved illustrators, Maurice Sendak, I watched...
Sinclair Sexsmith runs the award-winning personal online writing project Sugarbutch Chronicles: The Gender, and Relationship Adventures of a Kinky Queer...
Like everyone who has won–or lost–an award, I have mixed feelings about them. It’s good to be a nominee/finalist, great to be a winner, not so wonderful to lose, unsettling to be judged. Yet I like the principle of giving people recognition for the hard work that propels talent to the next place. Read More
This month, our author offers advice on sexually frustrating lovers, friends who are terrible writers, and how to deal with an ex's new partner. Read More
Gore Vidal’s Myra Breckenridge (1968) is my favorite novel, LGBT or otherwise. And Myra is my favorite literary character, LGBT or otherwise. As I typed (already past tense) that first sentence I hesitated for a few reasons. I think Myra would detest being labeled LGBT, and I fear her wrath. And who am I to attempt this playlist portrait of the entity that is Myra Breckenridge.... Read More
We must use what we have to invent what we desire. Adrienne Rich, What is Found There: Notebooks on Poetry...
One of the most anticipated and exciting events at the Associated Writers & Writing Programs Conference, held this year in...
Back before I was ill myself, back when I was a writer who traveled to the story, rather than needing stories to come to me, I spent a decade covering writers who were dying.
It wasn’t a plan–I was a young reporter and I got assigned a beat that no one thought would be big in the 80s: AIDS. Read More
Do you have problems with your love life? Don’t get along with your in-laws? Are your co-workers irksome? All life’s...
The folks at Flavorwire have an ingenious recurring column in which they create musical mixtapes for assorted literary characters. Each inspired post is dedicated...
