Bio/Memoir Archives

January 31, 2015 2 min read

For all of us late-to-the-party adults, for all of us stumbling around wondering how in fact to actually do this thing called adulthood, How to Grow Up is the book we’ve been waiting for Read More

‘Wagstaff: Before and After Mapplethorpe: A Biography’ by Philip Gefter

John Bavoso

Bio/Memoir Reviews

January 18, 2015 2 min read

Wagstaff: Before and After Mapplethorpe: A Biography is a book-length argument for Wagstaff’s importance in the world of American art. Read More

‘Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh’ by John Lahr

Ken Harvey

Bio/Memoir Reviews

January 11, 2015 4 min read

Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh is first and foremost a perceptive and edifying look at Williams’ life. Read More

‘The Prince of Los Cocuyos’ by Richard Blanco

Adrian Brooks

Bio/Memoir Reviews

January 6, 2015 3 min read

Sly, subversive and as funny as the early work of David Sedaris, it is also a joyful slice of Cuban-American life, as well as a poetic, profound and profoundly beautiful coming-of-age story of a boy raised in Florida in the '70s and '80s. Read More

‘Under This Beautiful Dome: A Senator, A Journalist, and the Politics of Gay Love in America’ by Terry Mutchler

Courtney Gillette

Bio/Memoir Reviews

November 30, 2014 4 min read

"Mutchler has created a searing portrait of love in the face of death, as well as the corrosive power of secrecy." Read More

‘Not My Father’s Son: A Memoir’ by Alan Cumming

James McDonald

Bio/Memoir Reviews

October 11, 2014 4 min read

"With remarkable candour and clarity, Cumming leads the reader through concentric layers of personal revelations that shook his life in 2010." Read More

‘Wilde in America: Oscar Wilde and the Invention of Modern Celebrity’ by David M. Friedman

Jennie Rathbun

Bio/Memoir Reviews

October 8, 2014 4 min read

"The book’s central thesis is that our modern-day cult of celebrity, in the Kardashian sense of unaccomplished people famous for being famous, had its beginnings in Wilde’s American tour." Read More

‘A Cup of Water Under My Bed’ by Daisy Hernández

Julie R. Enszer

Bio/Memoir Reviews

September 27, 2014 3 min read

"[...] Hernández’s A Cup of Water Under My Bed explores race, gender, and sexuality with beauty and grace." Read More

‘Travels with Casey’ by Benoit Denizet-Lewis

Gena Hymowech

Bio/Memoir Reviews

September 21, 2014 3 min read

It’s a strange thing. We never really know what our pets are feeling, and yet we’re so often convinced they...

‘Man Alive: A True Story of Violence, Forgiveness and Becoming a Man’ by Thomas Page McBee

Mitch Kellaway

Bio/Memoir Reviews

September 15, 2014 4 min read

Thomas Page McBee’s Man Alive: A True Story of Violence, Forgiveness and Becoming a Man is not a memoir—though, in...

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

‘How to Grow Up’ by Michelle Tea

‘Wagstaff: Before and After Mapplethorpe: A Biography’ by Philip Gefter

‘Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh’ by John Lahr

‘The Prince of Los Cocuyos’ by Richard Blanco

‘Under This Beautiful Dome: A Senator, A Journalist, and the Politics of Gay Love in America’ by Terry Mutchler

‘Not My Father’s Son: A Memoir’ by Alan Cumming

‘Wilde in America: Oscar Wilde and the Invention of Modern Celebrity’ by David M. Friedman

‘A Cup of Water Under My Bed’ by Daisy Hernández

‘Travels with Casey’ by Benoit Denizet-Lewis

‘Man Alive: A True Story of Violence, Forgiveness and Becoming a Man’ by Thomas Page McBee

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