author interview Archives

November 8, 2016 6 min read

"I am sorry to report that lesbian sexuality in the mainstream literary world still has a long way to go before it is met with the delight and respect it deserves." Read More

Bob Smith: On Religion, Life with ALS, His Love of Nature, and His New Book ‘Treehab’

Christopher Bram

Interviews

September 20, 2016 7 min read

"I want a God who’s not meaner than I am." Read More

Sarah Van Arsdale: On Writing Historical Fiction and Crafting Dynamic Characters

Sally Bellerose

Interviews

August 24, 2016 8 min read

"Good fiction often gives us characters in extremity, which ironically gives us a clearer mirror in which to see ourselves." Read More

Tim Murphy: On His New Book, HIV/AIDS, and How Scruff is a Kinder Place Than AOL Profiles

Theodore Kerr

Features Interviews

August 6, 2016 17 min read

"AIDS is like a prism through which all these social pathologies like poverty, homophobia, sexism and racism are refracted." Read More

Adam Haslett: On Masculinity, Being Fearless, and the Power of Ambiguity

Steven Cordova

Interviews

July 24, 2016 6 min read

"Imagine Me Gone is the most personal book I’ve written, since I used the fact there is mental illness in my own family more directly than I have in anything else." Read More

Eileen Myles: On Building a Career and the Current State of Poetry

Ricky Tucker

Interviews

May 8, 2016 11 min read

"I majored in English so I could become a poet. It was a career decision." Read More

Augusten Burroughs: On Grappling with Love and Desire

Sawyer Lovett

Interviews

April 11, 2016 7 min read

"It's important to find people who are compatible with your kind of broken spots and embrace them." Read More

Kaitlyn Greenidge: On Her New Novel ‘We Love You, Charlie Freeman’ and Writing Fully Realized Characters

Tennessee Jones

Interviews

March 21, 2016 6 min read

"I think anyone can write any experience as long as they recognize that experience as part of the human condition. The problem arises when a writer uses a character’s social positionality as shorthand or for street cred." Read More

Ellis Avery: On Writing Through Grief, Sickness, and Recovery

Julie R. Enszer

Features Interviews

February 29, 2016 11 min read

"Just as the world of publishing seemed a little toy-like to me after my brush with cancer, my self-importance as a writer, the hallmark of my thirties, seems a little silly to me right now." Read More

Jack Fritscher: On Editing ‘Drummer’ Magazine in the 1970s

Mike Miksche

Interviews

January 20, 2016 3 min read

In the 1970s, editor Jack Fritscher offered solace to masculine identified gay men around the country within the pages of the San Francisco based magazine, Drummer 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

MB Caschetta: On Her New Book, Getting Published, and Lesbian Sexuality

Bob Smith: On Religion, Life with ALS, His Love of Nature, and His New Book ‘Treehab’

Sarah Van Arsdale: On Writing Historical Fiction and Crafting Dynamic Characters

Tim Murphy: On His New Book, HIV/AIDS, and How Scruff is a Kinder Place Than AOL Profiles

Adam Haslett: On Masculinity, Being Fearless, and the Power of Ambiguity

Eileen Myles: On Building a Career and the Current State of Poetry

Augusten Burroughs: On Grappling with Love and Desire

Kaitlyn Greenidge: On Her New Novel ‘We Love You, Charlie Freeman’ and Writing Fully Realized Characters

Ellis Avery: On Writing Through Grief, Sickness, and Recovery

Jack Fritscher: On Editing ‘Drummer’ Magazine in the 1970s

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