When New Lit Salon Press opened a call for our Southern Gothic anthology we knew to expect the unexpected. As...
"I am an out lesbian writing about Jonathan Edwards, who many consider the most important Christian theologian this country has ever produced, an icon for many, including many who don’t accept queer people – to go into that territory was scary."
Read More
"Definitely the set of gay men who are now under 30 are distinctly different from those of us who are older. Many of the young people I've met who were born in the 90s don't, for instance, give a damn about being gay. For some of them, it's really almost a non-issue, and they don't care."
Writer Choire Sicha spoke with Lambda Literary about his new book, A Very Recent History, the Michael Bloomberg years, and capturing contemporary gay life in New York City. Read More
"I have mixed feelings about the place—it can be incredibly beautiful and incredibly ugly—and that duality fascinates me."
Author Mario López-Cordero spoke with Lambda Literary about writing his Fire Island based novel, Monarch Season, turning the standard gay "beach-read" on its head, and the Fire Island social scene. Read More
"I think humanity and empathy are the real watchwords of fiction. I see very little of that in contemporary writing. I see a lot of detachment from the characters. I see a lot of irony. I see a lot of design and distancing."
Allan Gurganus recently spoke with Lambda Literary Review about writing his latest book Local Souls, the new South, and the unquantifiable importance of empathy. Read More
"I think more gay people need to acknowledge that we have had a different experience growing up and therefore our relationships are somewhat different and our general stance on the world is much more ironic and anti-authoritarian than the mainstream..."
Noted writer and historian Martin Duberman took some time to talk with Lambda Literary about the history of the LGBT movement and the future of radical politics. Read More
"When I write, I am hungry for something. And I don’t always know what it is. But the poem is there to assuage it."
Poet R. Erica Doyle gets real with Lambda Literary about the social issues invoked by her work, the type of poetry she enjoys, and the politics of her process. Read More
"I love reading from this book because I’ve never had these kind of responses to anything I’ve written. I think it’s because everyone has an apocalyptic fantasy life."
Lucy Corin spoke to Lambda Literary about her new collection, One Hundred Apocalypses and Other Apocalypses, end of the world fantasies, and her strengths and limitations as a writer. Read More
In May of 2012, VIDA launched Her Kind, an online forum to allow for conversation between women writers on a national scale.
Her Kind editors Rosebud Ben-Oni and Arisa White took some time to have an in-depth discussion with Lambda Literary about the role of Her Kind in the women’s literary community and the ideas it seeks to promote. Read More
In Fairyland: A Memoir of My Father, Alysia Abbott shares her story of growing up as the daughter of writer and editor Steve Abbott, a leading gay cultural critic and important voice in the New Narrative movement.
Abbott sat down with Lambda Literary to talk about her father, the impact of HIV/AIDS on her life, and the experience of crafting her memoir. Read More
