Fiction Archives

January 10, 2011 2 min read

It was with some trepidation that I began reading Kathleen Winter’s Annabel (Grove Press/Black Cat). The book, set in a...

‘Fever Of The Bone’ by Val McDermid

Victoria Brownworth

Fiction Mystery Reviews

December 15, 2010 3 min read

Lambda Literary Award Finalist One of the things that makes Val McDermid one of the best mystery writers on the...

‘Bob The Book’ by David Pratt

Drewey Wayne Gunn

Fiction Reviews

December 7, 2010 4 min read

Both times I read Bob the Book, I finished it with something of the same warm, fuzzy feelings I have...

‘Double Bound’ by Nick Nolan

Christopher Verleger

Fiction Reviews Romance

December 7, 2010 2 min read

In his exciting debut novel, Strings Attached, author Nick Nolan introduced readers to Jeremy Tyler, a displaced California teen learning...

Inferno (a poet’s novel) by Eileen Myles

Julie R. Enszer

Fiction Reviews

November 23, 2010 8 min read

Well I’ll be a poet. What could be more foolish and obscure. I became a lesbian. From “An American Poem”...

‘Spore’ by Thom Nickels

Jackie S. Atkins

Fiction Reviews Speculative Fiction

November 15, 2010 3 min read

The fifth novel by Philadelphia columnist, Thom Nickels, Spore (StarBooks), seems to be in a category all to itself. Part...

‘Said and Done’ by James Morrison

Viet Dinh

Fiction Reviews

November 9, 2010 2 min read

Lambda Award Finalist Full disclosure: I am ‘friends’ with James Morrison on Facebook (though we’ve never met in person), and...

‘Bobby Blanchard, Lesbian Gym Teacher’ by Monica Nolan

Jenny Block

Fiction Reviews

November 8, 2010 2 min read

Bobby Blanchard, Lesbian Gym Teacher is a clever throwback to the pulp novels of the 50’s. Taken at face value,...

‘Dash and Lily’s Book of Dares’ By Rachel Cohn & David Levithan

Brandon Will

Fiction Reviews Young Adult

November 3, 2010 2 min read

The highly influential and much imitated David Levithan and Rachel Cohn have changed the young adult genre in new, exciting...

‘Mary Ann in Autumn’ by Armistead Maupin

David Blaustein

Fiction Reviews

November 2, 2010 3 min read

There’s a lot to like in Mary Ann in Autumn, Armistead Maupin’s eighth novel in the ‘Tales of the City’...

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

Teen Witches on the Move! Read Hannah Abigail Clarke’s The Scapegracers

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

‘Annabel’ by Kathleen Winter

‘Fever Of The Bone’ by Val McDermid

‘Bob The Book’ by David Pratt

‘Double Bound’ by Nick Nolan

Inferno (a poet’s novel) by Eileen Myles

‘Spore’ by Thom Nickels

‘Said and Done’ by James Morrison

‘Bobby Blanchard, Lesbian Gym Teacher’ by Monica Nolan

‘Dash and Lily’s Book of Dares’ By Rachel Cohn & David Levithan

‘Mary Ann in Autumn’ by Armistead Maupin

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