Interviews Archives

September 4, 2016 2 min read

"This book has been in me my whole life. And I'd say what inspired it was the need to celebrate the genius of how I survived and survive a world that is consistently telling me I'm not welcome." Read More

Sarah Van Arsdale: On Writing Historical Fiction and Crafting Dynamic Characters

Sally Bellerose

Interviews

August 24, 2016 8 min read

"Good fiction often gives us characters in extremity, which ironically gives us a clearer mirror in which to see ourselves." Read More

Tim Murphy: On His New Book, HIV/AIDS, and How Scruff is a Kinder Place Than AOL Profiles

Theodore Kerr

Features Interviews

August 6, 2016 17 min read

"AIDS is like a prism through which all these social pathologies like poverty, homophobia, sexism and racism are refracted." Read More

Adam Haslett: On Masculinity, Being Fearless, and the Power of Ambiguity

Steven Cordova

Interviews

July 24, 2016 6 min read

"Imagine Me Gone is the most personal book I’ve written, since I used the fact there is mental illness in my own family more directly than I have in anything else." Read More

Pat Spears: On Tackling Evil and Writing with Compassion

Sally Bellerose

Interviews

July 19, 2016 9 min read

"[...] I’ve lived long enough to know I’m susceptible to acts of evil as well as moments of the purest compassion." Read More

Garrard Conley: On Surviving Ex-Gay Therapy, Writing His Memoir, and the Year in Queer Lit

Todd Summar

Interviews

June 20, 2016 9 min read

"I remember in the 90s and even early 00s, the idea was still prevalent in popular culture and the media that gay sex equaled death. When you’re in this religious environment, it complicates it even further." Read More

John Chaich: On the Queer Connections to Books and Curating ‘Queering the BibliObject’

Emily Colucci

Interviews

June 19, 2016 10 min read

The exhibition Queering the BibliObject, at New York’s Center for Book Arts until June 25, offers a radically queer investigation of the physicality of books Read More

Cameron Awkward-Rich: On Engaging with Trans Literary Tropes and Writing for the Future

H. Melt

Interviews

June 8, 2016 10 min read

"...I don’t think feeling fragmented is necessarily a thing to seek to eliminate! Feelings, even unpleasant ones, can be a source of knowledge and intelligence." Read More

Carellin Brooks: On Troubled Relationships and “Coldly Furious” Downpours

Brett Josef Grubisic

Interviews

May 28, 2016 6 min read

"I’m an idealist mostly, but it really seems that in the relationships I’ve had, and in the relationships I see in the people around me, we’re all fumbling in the dark." Read More

Saleem Haddad: On the Arab Spring and Writing About the Queer Arab Experience

Stuart Waterman

Interviews

May 21, 2016 9 min read

"It was very challenging to write this, about such a sensitive subject as sexuality and shame, knowing that it would be read both by a Western audience and an Arab audience. So I kept telling myself: Just tell the truth." 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

Kokumo: On Her New Poetry Collection, the Search For Love, and the Determination to Survive

Sarah Van Arsdale: On Writing Historical Fiction and Crafting Dynamic Characters

Tim Murphy: On His New Book, HIV/AIDS, and How Scruff is a Kinder Place Than AOL Profiles

Adam Haslett: On Masculinity, Being Fearless, and the Power of Ambiguity

Pat Spears: On Tackling Evil and Writing with Compassion

Garrard Conley: On Surviving Ex-Gay Therapy, Writing His Memoir, and the Year in Queer Lit

John Chaich: On the Queer Connections to Books and Curating ‘Queering the BibliObject’

Cameron Awkward-Rich: On Engaging with Trans Literary Tropes and Writing for the Future

Carellin Brooks: On Troubled Relationships and “Coldly Furious” Downpours

Saleem Haddad: On the Arab Spring and Writing About the Queer Arab Experience

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