"For years, I tried to control my drinking and my drug use, and I nearly lost my life because of it. I hurt many people in that deluded thrashing. In the writing of these two books, which has taken up all of my free time for the last six years, I think--coming to the end--I felt a real sense of closure..."
Writer and literary agent Bill Clegg took some time to talk with Lambda about his new memoir, Ninety Days, his "relationship" with New York City, and the trials of staying sober. Read More
“Writing a memoir about living people in your family is a problematic undertaking . I think I only do it...
"If you stumble upon negative comments concerning your body or your personality, remember that the online universe equalizes every utterance, and that negative or humiliating comments concerning your body or your personality weigh no more than a feather. Imagine the feather blowing away."
Poet, critic, and author Wayne Koestenbaum took some time to talk with Lambda about the process of writing about humiliation, Harpo Marx, and how poetry informs his cultural criticism. Read More
"...I realized there wasn’t any point in me trying to be the new Henry James, Marcel Proust or William Faulkner. Living in California, I think, helped this. California is like the home of failure, I suppose. Not only failure, but contingency, accidents and things falling apart..."
Novelist and critic Kevin Killian took some time to talk with Lambda about his new novel, Spreadeagle, Kylie Minogue, and writing inspired Amazon.com reviews. Read More
" Whatever happened to our dreams of sexual splendor only bounded by the limitations of imagination? Gay sex is now more about regimentation than experimentation, following the hideous rules rather than creating new possibilities for loving, lusting for and taking care of one another."
Author Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore talks with Lambda about straight white respectability, queer desire, and the "It Gets Better" campaign. Read More
"What I hope The Miseducation of Cameron Post offers to its readers is a nuanced picture of a particular time and place as seen through the eyes of a young woman discovering her sexuality and her voice."
Author Emily M. Danforth sat down to answer a few questions about her new book, The Miseducation of Cameron Post , her thoughts on LGBTQ YA novels, and writing and growing up gay in Miles City, Montana.
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"But most people just hate discomfort and uncertainty, and will go to all lengths to avoid it, even in the art they engage. That kind of person will find The Vicious Red Relic,Love too jumpy, heady, and heavy. Maybe too unresolved. I think the book speaks to people who are already very courageous."
Author Anna Joy Springer took some time to talk with Lambda about her latest novel, The Vicious Red Relic, Love, her work as a professor, domestic violence within lesbian communities, and forgiveness. Read More
"...I do believe in the importance of story, of narrative. I always try to create a sense of urgency; ideally the reader will be pulled along, will want to know what happens next."
Named one of “Ten Titles to Pick Up Now” by O: The Oprah Magazine, Nina Revoyr’s new Lambda nominated novel is at once a breathtakingly beautiful hymn to the American outdoors—and to the bond between grandfather and granddaughter—and at the same time a chilling snapshot of race in this country.
Wingshooters serves as a stark corrective to lazy, cozy assumptions that racism doesn’t exist in the North the way it does in the South. It is also an aching, lonely, sure-handed portrait of small-town lesbian girlhood. Read More
“I love writing sex. And I love talking sex. A lot of writers feel stymied or scared of writing sex...
“…gays only make up about 3% of the population so we spend our whole lives ‘translating’ straight movies, books, ballets...
