author interview Archives

January 18, 2016 12 min read

"I feel very strongly that this is a gay book and that it participates in a recognizable delineated tradition of gay writing, and that’s a tradition that has been absolutely crucial to me as a writer." Read More

Paul Lisicky: On His New Memoir and Writing Elegies for the Dead

Michael Carroll

Features Interviews

January 7, 2016 14 min read

"Iʼm not sure that we as writers actually owe our dead anything other than to make them interesting—not necessarily friendly or nice but interesting." Read More

H. Melt: On Cultivating a Community, Chicago Art, and the Future of Trans Poetry

Mitch Kellaway

Interviews

November 22, 2015 8 min read

"I feel there’s not a whole lot of support for trans writers--but it’s changing. And it’s changing not because [of the publishers], but because a lot more trans poets are pushing for this to happen..." Read More

Kate Scelsa: On ‘Fans of the Impossible Life’ and New Approaches to Young Adult Literature

Sawyer Lovett

Interviews

October 1, 2015 8 min read

"Teens can handle reading about sex, and assuming that they need to be protected from it just seems really condescending to me." Read More

Read an Excerpt from ‘Nepantla Issue #2’: Alok Vaid-Menon & Cece McDonald in Conversation

Christopher Soto

Interviews

September 14, 2015 8 min read

Nepantla Issue #2 will launch on September 17, 2015 on the Lambda Literary website Read More

Read an Excerpt from ‘Nepantla Issue #2’: Carl Phillips & Rickey Laurentiis in Conversation

Christopher Soto

Interviews

September 13, 2015 8 min read

Nepantla Issue #2 will launch on September 17, 2015 on the Lambda Literary website Read More

Gary Indiana: On His New Book ‘I Can Give You Anything But Love’ and the Impossibility of Happy Endings

Steven Cordova

Features Interviews

September 8, 2015 6 min read

"There aren’t any happy endings! We die! How could anything have a happy ending? Life is pessimistic because we die!" Read More

Sara Jaffe: On Her New Novel ‘Dryland’ and Tapping into the Adolescent Mindset

M./Maybe Henry Milks

Features Interviews

September 2, 2015 8 min read

"[ ...] I think a big contradiction of adolescence is that you are thinking about yourself and your sense of identity constantly, everything is 'I, I, I,' but truly your identity is so unformed and incoherent" Read More

“Bendova Like I Told Ya”: Big Freedia and the Healing Power of Contradiction

Dan Lopez

Bio/Memoir Opinion

August 23, 2015 5 min read

Ease with contradiction would appear to be a kind of puckish response to systemic disenfranchisement Read More

Cory Silverberg : On His New Book ‘Sex is a Funny Word’ and Sex Education for Kids

Theodore Kerr

Features Interviews

August 19, 2015 14 min read

"I get to present sexuality and gender in a way that I hope gives kids more options than I felt I ever had." 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

Garth Greenwell: On His New Novel and the Universality of the Gay Experience

Paul Lisicky: On His New Memoir and Writing Elegies for the Dead

H. Melt: On Cultivating a Community, Chicago Art, and the Future of Trans Poetry

Kate Scelsa: On ‘Fans of the Impossible Life’ and New Approaches to Young Adult Literature

Read an Excerpt from ‘Nepantla Issue #2’: Alok Vaid-Menon & Cece McDonald in Conversation

Read an Excerpt from ‘Nepantla Issue #2’: Carl Phillips & Rickey Laurentiis in Conversation

Gary Indiana: On His New Book ‘I Can Give You Anything But Love’ and the Impossibility of Happy Endings

Sara Jaffe: On Her New Novel ‘Dryland’ and Tapping into the Adolescent Mindset

“Bendova Like I Told Ya”: Big Freedia and the Healing Power of Contradiction

Cory Silverberg : On His New Book ‘Sex is a Funny Word’ and Sex Education for Kids

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