“It is my hope that my work forces us to face our fears of HIV/AIDS. Life has brought me intimately...
To cast more light on commendable LGBT indie titles, Lambda Literary Review is introducing a monthly Q & A with self-published authors and professionals.
This month, Lambda Literary speaks with John Waldron, a gay dad from Phoenix, about his memoir, A Father's Angel. Read More
"[...]with Facebook, Pinterest, with other online modes, blogging....We are catching things [in the news and on the web] and passing them along. What I'm showing is how the past comments on, and is related to, what we're doing now."
Scholar and writer Ellen Gruber Garvey talks with Lambda Literary about her new book, Writing With Scissors: American Scrapbooks from the Civil War to the Harlem Renaissance, being a lesbian academic, and bringing hidden histories to light. Read More
"...I realized that what conspiracy theories are—if they aren’t true—are our way of seeking order, of making sense of the chaos of these terrible events..."
In her recent book of poems, Waiting Up for the End of the World, Elizabeth J. Colen examines conspiracy theories from the 20th and 21st centuries—anything from Area 51, the fluoride conspiracy, chemtrails, the North American Union, the assassination of JFK, and much more.
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In this in-depth discussion, poets Rickey Laurentiis and Darrel Alejandro Holnes examine categorization in the NYC social scene and in queer literature today. Read More
"I put everything I had into this book, stayed with themes even when they stumped me, wrote from the darkest places and tried to find the humor to make even the most painful feelings knowable, communicable."
Hilary Sloin, author of the genre-bending novel Art on Fire , took some time to talk with Lambda Literary about her novel, her writing process, and the lesbian literary sensibility. Read More
"I think debates over what makes a book great are largely among writers and people who teach literature. The rest of us I don’t think really care. I’d say we’re more interested in whether we connect with a book..."
Publisher Don Weise took some time to talk with the Lambda Literary about his publishing imprint, Magnus Books, the future of LGBT publishing, and what characteristics make a book “great.” Read More
In his new book, Real Man Adventures, novelist T Cooper turns his searing lens and sharp wit toward himself to capture something of the elusive experience of what it means to be a man, more specifically, a man who was assigned female at birth. Read More
"I'm proud that I didn't wait until I was perfect to begin. That's perhaps the biggest lesson. You want something? Do it."
Bryan Borland, whose newest book is Less Fortunate Pirates: Poems From the First Year Without My Father, is a poet and the noted publisher of Sibling Rivalry Press, which he began in 2009.
Borland talked with Lambda Literary about starting Sibling Rivalry Press, literary life in Arkansas, and his plans for the future... Read More
