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What We’re Reading: Chuck Forester’s I Throw Like a Girl

April 24, 2023 2 min read

Inspired by our community, we are excited to present a new periodic series entitled What We Are Reading to share exciting books (new and old!) that Lambda staff are engaging with. Read More

Starring in My Own Play: A Review of Cecilia Gentili’s Faltas: Letters to Everyone In My Hometown Who Isn’t My Rapist

January 18, 2023 4 min read

Cecilia Gentili’s new book Faltas: Letters to Everyone In My Hometown Who Isn’t My Rapist is a memoir that peppers a striking sense of humor into a series of memories, digressions, and insights into the lives of the lives of the people populating her hometown. Faltas avoids the trappings of many trans memoirs that make them sometimes feel like trauma porn for the cis crowd, instead breathing new life into the genre. It’s a fresh take on a stale genre. Read More

A man stands in a boat with the city behind him.

The Magician, Colm Tóibín’s Sweeping Fictionalized Biography of Thomas Mann

November 28, 2022 4 min read

Germany’s greatest 20th century writer, Thomas Mann, is the subject of a new novel from Colm Tóibín. Tóibín is the author of the widely...

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Edgar Gomez’s Intricate and Emotive Memoir, High-Risk Homosexual

Matthew Caprioli

March 28, 2022 4 min read

Publishers tend to market gay memoirs as campy, joyful, and frivolous or serious, profound, and brooding. High-Risk Homosexual, the debut...

Cover of Sometimes You Have to Lie: The Life and Times of Louise Fitzhugh, Renegade Author of Harriet the Spy, by Leslie Brody. Black text in orange and yellow boxes over a monochrime photo of Louise Fitzhugh smiling towards the viewer. She is a pale skinned woman with short hair and she is laying on her front with half her face covered by her elbows.

The Creative Brilliance of Louise Fitzhugh: On Sometimes You Have to Lie by Leslie Brody

Sophie Strohmeier

November 22, 2021 9 min read

Louise Fitzhugh, the charismatic lesbian author of Harriet the Spy, now has a biography— Sometimes You Have to Lie by Leslie Brody. Read More

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“He fit perfectly on me, belly to belly”: Krys Malcolm Belc’s The Natural Mother of the Child

July 6, 2021 4 min read

“Instead of mother, I say gestational parent, but the phrase often confuses people.” Krys Malcolm Belc’s The Natural Mother of...

She's Not There

A Window Into Joy: Jennifer Finney Boylan’s She’s Not There

April 8, 2021 8 min read

Spring is here. An end to the pandemic draws nearer. We just celebrated Transgender Day of Visibility. In my personal...

Forging Meaning through Love: Jane Byers’ Small Courage

March 16, 2021 4 min read

Acclaimed poet, documentarian, and lifelong activist Jane Byers takes a courageous dive into modern LGBTQ parenthood in Small Courage: A...

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Philip Gambone Takes a Deep Dive Into His Father’s Wartime History

February 16, 2021 8 min read

Amidst the exposés and scandalous tell-alls that often pass for memoir, readers can be caught off guard by a heartfelt...

Patricia Highsmith

A Look Into the Dark Inner World of Patricia Highsmith

January 22, 2021 4 min read

Author of such novels as Strangers on A Train and The Talented Mr. Ripley, Highsmith captured brilliant, amoral characters willing...

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