6 Forthcoming Queer YA Books to Add to Your TBR Pile Todd Wellman Features October 17, 2020 4 min readSalivate with me, if you will, over the wonderful buffet of forthcoming 2021 queer YA books. Let’s imagine how we’ll...
Blizzard Delivers a Collection Full of Memory, Feeling, and Sensation Kiran Bhat Reviews October 11, 2020 5 min readA blizzard. A thrust of ice carved into pieces, condensed, and hurled into the wind. Each fragment of snow in...
The Adina Talve-Goodman Fellowship is for an Emerging Writer of Fiction Edit Team Reviews October 1, 2020 1 min readSponsored by One Story and the Talve-Goodman family, this educational fellowship is for an emerging writer of fiction who has...
Kristen Lepionka’s Once You Go This Far is an Entertaining Ride Anne Laughlin Mystery September 24, 2020 3 min readIt’s some kind of genius to give a private investigator the last name of Weary. It fits so snugly with...
Born to Be Public is a Thoughtful Comedic Memoir Alexander Carrigan Reviews September 23, 2020 2 min readAs the new decade opens and millennials begin to enter their 30s, it is interesting to see how this generation,...
What Happens at Night is the Dream-Like Story of One Troubled Couple Mikey Byrd Reviews September 21, 2020 4 min read“[…] and he realized that she had finally turned against him, forsaken him as he had watched her forsake everyone...
Fire on the Island is a Heartfelt Portrait of a Greek Island Community John Copenhaver Reviews September 18, 2020 2 min readAs we shelter in our homes from the pandemic, the heat, the fires (if you are in California), mourning our...
My Pink Cloud Phase: Jennifer Finney Boylan’s Clarifying Guidance Avila Alvina Boyd Features September 17, 2020 4 min readOver the course of the past year, I experienced an odd sensation that I didn’t have the language to articulate....
Polar Vortex Explores the Tensions of Middle-Aged Domesticity Julie R. Enszer Reviews September 15, 2020 3 min readThe action of Shani Mootoo’s propulsive new novel Polar Vortex happens during a single day, but the questions the novel...
Queer Diaries Are Celebrations of a Secret History Nadia Niva Features September 8, 2020 7 min readBlank pages are seductive. They are like the settings of dreams: colored by deep questions and desires. Diaries and journals...