author interview Archives

August 12, 2015 19 min read

"Primarily, I wanted to see if I could write a book in which issues of love, erotics, desire, and sex could be momentarily liberated from conventional categorizations of gender identity." Read More

Kenny Fries: On How Being Disabled Influences His Work, Gay Pride, and Writing about Identity

Rebecca Maskos

Interviews

July 29, 2015 7 min read

"To me, a culture of disability is very important. And I think that my books contribute to that culture." Read More

Jonathan Galassi: On Publishing, Poetry vs. Prose, and Meeting Your Literary Heroes

John Bavoso

Interviews

June 20, 2015 6 min read

"I chose to write about publishing because it's the world I know best, and because I wanted to leave a record of a way of working that really is gone now." Read More

Kevin Coval, Quraysh Ali Lansana, and Nate Marshall: On the Queer Aspects of Hip Hop

Candice Iloh

Interviews Poetry Reviews

June 14, 2015 8 min read

"I think the reality of hip hop is that women and queer people and a lot of folks who we think about being in the margins have always been at the center of the culture." Read More

Wayne Hoffman: On His New Novel ‘An Older Man’ and How Gay Sexual Culture has Changed Over the Past Couple of Decades

Donald Weise

Features Interviews

June 8, 2015 10 min read

"Cruising and gay sex don’t really need brick-and-mortar institutions anymore. You can cruise anywhere, anytime, with the phone you already have in your pocket, for free. So basically, the world is your bathhouse now." Read More

John Keene: On Hidden Histories and Why Writing Against Official Narratives is Queer

Reginald Harris

Interviews

June 3, 2015 7 min read

John Keene spoke with The Lambda Literary Review about his new book,Counternarratives, hidden histories, and merging fiction with reality Read More

Yarrott Benz: On Revisiting a Harrowing Adolescence and Writing His New Memoir ‘The Bone Bridge’

Christopher Bram

Features Interviews

April 30, 2015 9 min read

"Whether I like it or not, the story of The Bone Bridge is the defining story of my life." Read More

Maggie Nelson: On Writing ‘The Argonauts’ and Doing Justice to Queer Happiness

Daphne Sidor

Features Interviews

April 26, 2015 7 min read

"On one level, I tried to do something I hadn’t done before, which was use the book as a holding container for sentiments of love and happiness [...]" Read More

Jamie Brickhouse: On Southern Charm, Crafting His Life into a Narrative, and His New Memoir ‘Dangerous When Wet’

Karen Schechner

Features Interviews

April 23, 2015 7 min read

"The bigger task wasn’t reconstructing my own history but making sense of that history. The revelation was in the writing." Read More

Victoria A. Brownworth on Her New Novel ‘Ordinary Mayhem’

Paige Cohen

Features Interviews

March 30, 2015 11 min read

"Without secrets, there would be no literature. How do you have Dostoevsky or Toni Morrison or any LGBT writing without secrets?" 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

Author Quintan Ana Wikswo on the Limitations and Power of Labels

Kenny Fries: On How Being Disabled Influences His Work, Gay Pride, and Writing about Identity

Jonathan Galassi: On Publishing, Poetry vs. Prose, and Meeting Your Literary Heroes

Kevin Coval, Quraysh Ali Lansana, and Nate Marshall: On the Queer Aspects of Hip Hop

Wayne Hoffman: On His New Novel ‘An Older Man’ and How Gay Sexual Culture has Changed Over the Past Couple of Decades

John Keene: On Hidden Histories and Why Writing Against Official Narratives is Queer

Yarrott Benz: On Revisiting a Harrowing Adolescence and Writing His New Memoir ‘The Bone Bridge’

Maggie Nelson: On Writing ‘The Argonauts’ and Doing Justice to Queer Happiness

Jamie Brickhouse: On Southern Charm, Crafting His Life into a Narrative, and His New Memoir ‘Dangerous When Wet’

Victoria A. Brownworth on Her New Novel ‘Ordinary Mayhem’

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