Bio/Memoir Archives

June 23, 2015 2 min read

Dangerous When Wet is a fabulous new memoir about a man who has it all--a great job in publishing, a longtime boyfriend, fun friends and a caring family. But Brickhouse has some serious life challenges too, including addictions and HIV Read More

‘It Starts with Trouble: William Goyen and the Life of Writing’ by Clark Davis

Steven Cordova

Bio/Memoir Reviews

June 18, 2015 5 min read

During his lifetime, William Goyen’s fiction elicited praise from the likes of Joyce Carol Oates and Truman Capote. He published five novels, several collections of short stories, a book of poems, and a respectable—if not abundant—body of nonfiction. Read More

‘Irrepressible: The Jazz Age Life of Henrietta Bingham’ by Emily Bingham

Jennie Rathbun

Features Bio/Memoir

May 28, 2015 5 min read

Bingham’s book provides a fascinating if dispiriting record of the 20th century’s oscillating acceptance of homosexuality in England and America Read More

‘Bettyville’ by George Hodgman

Alex Tunney

Bio/Memoir Reviews

May 26, 2015 3 min read

Hodgman pictures himself as something of an outsider in his relationship to his family, to his hometown neighborhood, and to the gay community at large, and this point of view allows for observations about the past that are equally fond as they are insightful Read More

‘Smash Cut: A Memoir of Howard & Art & the ’70s and the ’80s’ by Brad Gooch

Reginald Harris

Bio/Memoir Reviews

May 3, 2015 3 min read

In his new memoir Smash Cut, novelist and biographer Brad Gooch recounts his experiences in New York City during the turbulent '70s and '80s Read More

‘Frank: A Life in Politics from the Great Society to Same-Sex Marriage’ by Barney Frank

Adrian Brooks

Bio/Memoir Reviews

April 16, 2015 3 min read

As indicated by its subtitle, Barney Frank’s new book covers the life and career of one of the most important figures in American public life in the past forty years Read More

‘My Avant-Garde Education: A Memoir’ by Bernard Cooper

Theodore Kerr

Bio/Memoir Reviews

April 4, 2015 5 min read

It is easy to assume that My Avant-Garde Education: A Memoir is Bernard Cooper’s autobiography through art. He is after all a critic, artist and educator. While not untrue, it is not the whole story. Read More

‘I Left It on the Mountain’ by Kevin Sessums

Ken Harvey

Bio/Memoir Reviews

March 26, 2015 4 min read

I Left It On the Mountain is a spiritual page-turner. Read More

‘The Autumn Balloon’ by Kenny Porpora

John Bavoso

Bio/Memoir Reviews

February 21, 2015 2 min read

Porpora deploys a deft hand and straightforward tone that lifts what could have easily been a maudlin, self-pitying—or, in the opposite direction, self-congratulatory—narrative into a memoir that should be moved to the top of everyone’s to-read list immediately. Read More

‘Nights at Rizzoli’ by Felice Picano

Kevin Brannon

Bio/Memoir Reviews

February 19, 2015 4 min read

The palimpsest of revolution and cosmopolitanism that overlays Picano’s recollections is of course utterly appropriate to the post-Stonewall years he describes Read More

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

‘Dangerous When Wet’ by Jamie Brickhouse

‘It Starts with Trouble: William Goyen and the Life of Writing’ by Clark Davis

‘Irrepressible: The Jazz Age Life of Henrietta Bingham’ by Emily Bingham

‘Bettyville’ by George Hodgman

‘Smash Cut: A Memoir of Howard & Art & the ’70s and the ’80s’ by Brad Gooch

‘Frank: A Life in Politics from the Great Society to Same-Sex Marriage’ by Barney Frank

‘My Avant-Garde Education: A Memoir’ by Bernard Cooper

‘I Left It on the Mountain’ by Kevin Sessums

‘The Autumn Balloon’ by Kenny Porpora

‘Nights at Rizzoli’ by Felice Picano

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