Interviews Archives

August 12, 2015 19 min read

"Primarily, I wanted to see if I could write a book in which issues of love, erotics, desire, and sex could be momentarily liberated from conventional categorizations of gender identity." Read More

Kenny Fries: On How Being Disabled Influences His Work, Gay Pride, and Writing about Identity

Rebecca Maskos

Interviews

July 29, 2015 7 min read

"To me, a culture of disability is very important. And I think that my books contribute to that culture." Read More

Riverhead Editorial Director Rebecca Saletan on the Art of Publishing

Frederick McKindra

Features Interviews

July 27, 2015 12 min read

"For me, I’m less interested in things that reflect the world and the familiar literature that I already know. I want things to take me into new zones." Read More

Out of the Dungeons and onto the Bookshelf: Leather Writers in a Post-‘Fifty Shades’ Literary World

Sassafras Lowrey

Interviews

July 16, 2015 9 min read

Authors Sassafras Lowrey, Laura Antoniou, and Cecilia Tan discuss BDSM writing in a post-Fifty Shades literary world Read More

Jonathan Galassi: On Publishing, Poetry vs. Prose, and Meeting Your Literary Heroes

John Bavoso

Interviews

June 20, 2015 6 min read

"I chose to write about publishing because it's the world I know best, and because I wanted to leave a record of a way of working that really is gone now." Read More

Kevin Coval, Quraysh Ali Lansana, and Nate Marshall: On the Queer Aspects of Hip Hop

Candice Iloh

Interviews Poetry Reviews

June 14, 2015 8 min read

"I think the reality of hip hop is that women and queer people and a lot of folks who we think about being in the margins have always been at the center of the culture." Read More

Wayne Hoffman: On His New Novel ‘An Older Man’ and How Gay Sexual Culture has Changed Over the Past Couple of Decades

Donald Weise

Features Interviews

June 8, 2015 10 min read

"Cruising and gay sex don’t really need brick-and-mortar institutions anymore. You can cruise anywhere, anytime, with the phone you already have in your pocket, for free. So basically, the world is your bathhouse now." Read More

John Keene: On Hidden Histories and Why Writing Against Official Narratives is Queer

Reginald Harris

Interviews

June 3, 2015 7 min read

John Keene spoke with The Lambda Literary Review about his new book,Counternarratives, hidden histories, and merging fiction with reality Read More

Jeffrey Round: On Becoming a Mystery Writer

James Moran

Features Interviews

May 28, 2015 7 min read

“I'm an inveterate wanderer and snoop [....] Whether I'm on a bike or in a car, I stick my nose in places that most people avoid just to see what curiosities they hold, especially at night.” Read More

Dawn Martin Lundy: On the Power of Forgetting and Her New Collection ‘Life in a Box is a Pretty Life’

Candice Iloh

Features Interviews

May 25, 2015 5 min read

"What I believe in is forgetting; it’s transformative, if not reformative, power. What does it mean to truly leave something behind? To excise a happening from not only your thoughts, but also from your body?" 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

‘Gaylord Phoenix’ by Edie Fake

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

Author Quintan Ana Wikswo on the Limitations and Power of Labels

Kenny Fries: On How Being Disabled Influences His Work, Gay Pride, and Writing about Identity

Riverhead Editorial Director Rebecca Saletan on the Art of Publishing

Out of the Dungeons and onto the Bookshelf: Leather Writers in a Post-‘Fifty Shades’ Literary World

Jonathan Galassi: On Publishing, Poetry vs. Prose, and Meeting Your Literary Heroes

Kevin Coval, Quraysh Ali Lansana, and Nate Marshall: On the Queer Aspects of Hip Hop

Wayne Hoffman: On His New Novel ‘An Older Man’ and How Gay Sexual Culture has Changed Over the Past Couple of Decades

John Keene: On Hidden Histories and Why Writing Against Official Narratives is Queer

Jeffrey Round: On Becoming a Mystery Writer

Dawn Martin Lundy: On the Power of Forgetting and Her New Collection ‘Life in a Box is a Pretty Life’

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