Interviews Archives

October 6, 2010 5 min read

An Interview Celebrated professor, novelist, translator, memoirist, and multiple Lambda Award Finalist, Jaime Manrique, discusses his new project, a historical...

Confessions of a Librarian: Bleue Benton

Rachel Wexelbaum

Interviews

September 27, 2010 4 min read

Bleue Benton is the Collection Development Manager at the Oak Park Public Library, in the Chicago suburb of Oak Park. ...

T Cooper’s Complex Polar Bear

Karen Schechner

Interviews

September 20, 2010 4 min read

Novelist T Cooper had a dream that Sarah Palin was shooting polar bears from a helicopter “Nam style,” he said...

Tanith Lee: Channeling Queer Authors

Craig Gidney

Interviews

September 13, 2010 8 min read

The prolific author Tanith Lee—almost 300 short stories, over 90 novels—is something of a legend in genre fiction. Her vast...

Confessions of a Librarian: Janet Trumble

Rachel Wexelbaum

Interviews

August 30, 2010 11 min read

1. What made you decide to become a librarian? How did you get into the profession? I wanted to be...

4Qs for Nick Burd

Brent Taylor

Interviews

August 26, 2010 2 min read

1. In your novel, The Vast Fields of Ordinary, is the main “love story” between Dade/Pablo or Dade/Alex. How so?...

Monique Truong: Southern girl, Twice over

Jihii Jolly

Interviews

August 26, 2010 6 min read

Monique Truong’s (author of The Book of Salt) new book, Bitter in the Mouth comes out at the end of...

Low Fidelity: Stephen McCauley on the ‘Myth of Monogamy’

Sean Hetherington

Interviews

August 16, 2010 5 min read

Stephen McCauley’s new book, Insignificant Others, explores, with hilarious, dark, and painful honesty, the story of a middle-aged man coming...

Steven Reigns: Everything on the Table

Tim Miller

Interviews

August 12, 2010 4 min read

Steven Reigns’ new book Inheritance is unflinching in its courage to remember, name and call out abuse of one vulnerable...

Minal Hajratwala: ‘The IQ in LGBTIQ’

Jihii Jolly

Interviews

August 10, 2010 7 min read

Minal Hajratwala won a Lammy this year for her book, Leaving India: My Family’s Journey from Five Villages to Five Continents, a...

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

‘Beyond Binary: Genderqueer and Sexually Fluid Speculative Fiction’ edited by Brit Mandelo

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

Jaime Manrique & the Apocryphal Quixote

Confessions of a Librarian: Bleue Benton

T Cooper’s Complex Polar Bear

Tanith Lee: Channeling Queer Authors

Confessions of a Librarian: Janet Trumble

4Qs for Nick Burd

Monique Truong: Southern girl, Twice over

Low Fidelity: Stephen McCauley on the ‘Myth of Monogamy’

Steven Reigns: Everything on the Table

Minal Hajratwala: ‘The IQ in LGBTIQ’

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