Fiction Archives

October 9, 2011 3 min read

Theodora (Penguin Press) as history is fascinating. Stella Duffy’s historical novel about the most progressive empress of Byzantium and wife of...

‘Captain Harding’s Six-Day War’ by Elliott Mackle

Alan Chin

Fiction Reviews Romance

October 5, 2011 3 min read

In 1967, Captain Harding is working his way up the promotion ladder within the U.S. Air Force. He’s a go-getter...

‘Zipper Mouth’ by Laurie Weeks

Courtney Gillette

Fiction Reviews

October 3, 2011 4 min read

Momentum has a language, and in her long awaited debut novel Zipper Mouth (Feminist Press), Laurie Weeks speaks it fluidly....

‘The Unreal Life of Sergey Nabokov’ by Paul Russell

Terri Solomon

Fiction Reviews

September 28, 2011 3 min read

Paul Russell’s newest novel imagines the delicate inner life of Sergey Nabokov, the lesser-known gay brother of Vladimir, of Lolita...

‘On Wings of Affection’ by George Snyder

Alan Orr

Fiction Reviews

September 27, 2011 2 min read

George Snyder’s On Wings of Affection (Lulu) is a likeable romp through a witty and serendipitous West Hollywood complete with...

‘Smoketown’ by Tenea D. Johnson

Anthony Darden

Fiction Reviews Speculative Fiction Young Adult

September 19, 2011 2 min read

In her debut novel, Smoketown (Blind Eye Books), Tenea D. Johnson magically creates a verdant jungle from what was once...

‘The Wide Road’ by Carla Harryman & Lyn Hejinian

Sara Rauch

Fiction Reviews

September 12, 2011 3 min read

Sinuous, seductive, rife with sexy, feminine energy, The Wide Road (Belladonna) is hard to categorize. It blurs the line between...

‘The Two Krishnas’ by Ghalib Shiraz Dhalla

Steven Cordova

Fiction Reviews

September 11, 2011 2 min read

If the point of a writer’s biographical note is to make it sound like the writer is busy, then Los...

‘Sweet Like Sugar’ by Wayne Hoffman

Howard G. Williams

Fiction Reviews

September 5, 2011 2 min read

Sweet Like Sugar (Kensington Books) is a charming novel that describes the convergence of a young man’s openly gay identity...

‘Moffie’ by Andre Carl van der Merwe

Alan Chin

Fiction Reviews

August 30, 2011 3 min read

Like every gay boy in 1970s South Africa, Nicholas van der Swart must hide that part of himself that is...

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

Allen Ginsberg & Arthur Russell in Suburbia: Read an Excerpt from Kevin Killian’s Fascination

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

‘Theodora: Actress, Empress, Whore’ by Stella Duffy

‘Captain Harding’s Six-Day War’ by Elliott Mackle

‘Zipper Mouth’ by Laurie Weeks

‘The Unreal Life of Sergey Nabokov’ by Paul Russell

‘On Wings of Affection’ by George Snyder

‘Smoketown’ by Tenea D. Johnson

‘The Wide Road’ by Carla Harryman & Lyn Hejinian

‘The Two Krishnas’ by Ghalib Shiraz Dhalla

‘Sweet Like Sugar’ by Wayne Hoffman

‘Moffie’ by Andre Carl van der Merwe

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