Interviews

Author Interviews and Q&A’s

Against Me!’s Laura Jane Grace on Crafting Her New Punk Rock Memoir

November 22, 2016 4 min read

"I found a lot of parallels between recording an album and writing a book. I came to find myself looking at each chapter like a song." Read More

Aesthetics, Politics, and Narrative: The Work and Legacy of Playwright Moises Kaufman

Anastasia Klimchynskaya

Interviews

November 15, 2016 9 min read

As a queer playwright, Kaufman has simultaneously tackled questions of form and politics, including issues such as censorship, hate crimes, and queer identity Read More

MB Caschetta: On Her New Book, Getting Published, and Lesbian Sexuality

Sally Bellerose

Interviews

November 8, 2016 6 min read

"I am sorry to report that lesbian sexuality in the mainstream literary world still has a long way to go before it is met with the delight and respect it deserves." Read More

Ken White: On Starting Query Books and Republishing Classic LBGTQ Literature

Alex Tunney

Interviews

November 1, 2016 6 min read

Publisher Ken White on creating Query Books and republishing classic LGBTQ literature Read More

Ari Banias: On His New Poetry Collection and Trans Representation in the Larger Culture

Tennessee Jones

Interviews

October 24, 2016 9 min read

"[...] I long to get outside the ways culture has directed me to see myself, others, and the world." Read More

William Norwich: On Fashion Week and the “Tyranny of the Red Carpet”

Gee Henry

Interviews

October 18, 2016 8 min read

"My Mrs. Brown began as a reaction to the tyranny of the red carpet: meaning, the message of the red carpet is that you are never fully realized unless you are wearing princess gear, dressed for the ballroom. Read More

A Conversation Between Poets: Lynn McGee and Elaine Sexton on Loss and Love

Elaine Sexton

Interviews

October 4, 2016 8 min read

Poets Lynn McGee and Elaine Sexton on loss, life, death, and love Read More

Bob Smith: On Religion, Life with ALS, His Love of Nature, and His New Book ‘Treehab’

Christopher Bram

Interviews

September 20, 2016 7 min read

"I want a God who’s not meaner than I am." Read More

Read an Excerpt from ‘Nepantla Issue #3’: Ocean Vuong & Christopher Soto in Conversation

Christopher Soto

Interviews

September 14, 2016 5 min read

"For me that is success, to be able to speak with one another with our best intentions. I always see that as the end goal, to reach humans. Success is when the world becomes a vehicle for the work." Read More

Read an Excerpt from ‘Nepantla Issue #3’: Brenda Shaughnessy & Christopher Soto in Conversation

Christopher Soto

Interviews

September 12, 2016 9 min read

"Really it’s neither difficult nor devastating to hit a wrong note or to write a bad line of poetry. Just write another. Sing another song. Big whoop, I realized. But it took me decades to figure that out." Read More

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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

Against Me!’s Laura Jane Grace on Crafting Her New Punk Rock Memoir

Aesthetics, Politics, and Narrative: The Work and Legacy of Playwright Moises Kaufman

MB Caschetta: On Her New Book, Getting Published, and Lesbian Sexuality

Ken White: On Starting Query Books and Republishing Classic LBGTQ Literature

Ari Banias: On His New Poetry Collection and Trans Representation in the Larger Culture

William Norwich: On Fashion Week and the “Tyranny of the Red Carpet”

A Conversation Between Poets: Lynn McGee and Elaine Sexton on Loss and Love

Bob Smith: On Religion, Life with ALS, His Love of Nature, and His New Book ‘Treehab’

Read an Excerpt from ‘Nepantla Issue #3’: Ocean Vuong & Christopher Soto in Conversation

Read an Excerpt from ‘Nepantla Issue #3’: Brenda Shaughnessy & Christopher Soto in Conversation

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

The High Stakes of Young Adulthood: A Review of Idlewild by James Frankie Thomas

People Collide by Isle McElroy: A Review

Reviewing Bad Gays; or how we use the past to shape the future

A Review of Cassandra Khaw’s The Salt Grows Heavy

If property is theft, then what is a photograph? A Review of The Unintended by Monica Huerta