author interviews Archives

Two Black Queer Men Talking: Gar McVey-Russell Chats With Casey Hamilton About His Debut Novel MENAFTER10

September 16, 2021 6 min read

Casey Hamilton’s debut novel MENAFTER10 is about a group of young, Black gay men looking for meaning, identity, and connection...

On Controversy, Looking Back, and The Selected Poems of Emanuel Xavier

Charlie Vázquez

author interviews

June 14, 2021 10 min read

I met Emanuel Xavier right after returning to my native New York City in 2006, after a 17-year West Coast...

Bernard L. Lumpkin on Elevating Black Queer Art

William Johnson

Features

March 1, 2021 8 min read

When you connect with an old friend you are bound to learn of some surprising life changes. New jobs! New...

Phil Stamper on the Thrill of Figuring Out Where You Belong

Todd Wellman

Features

February 24, 2021 6 min read

Imagine it: You’ve flown across the world to get away from your suffocating family. Finally getaway. And what do you...

May We Present… Zak Salih’s Let’s Get Back to the Party

Willem Finn Harling

Interviews

February 13, 2021 6 min read

Welcome to May We Present…, a new column from Lambda Literary that highlights authors with recent or forthcoming publications. Our...

Douglas A. Martin on Writing an Anti-True Crime Novel

Dani Smotrich-Barr

Features

January 20, 2021 9 min read

I met Douglas A. Martin as a student in his “Daybooks, Diaries, Notebooks” class at Wesleyan, a class that was...

Ryan La Sala on Being a Menace to Reality

Todd Wellman

author interviews

January 15, 2021 6 min read

Does Ryan La Sala tell himself to pout, or does it come naturally, the way someone might flip their hair,...

Malinda Lo on Writing a Coming-of-Age Love Story

Todd Wellman

author interviews

December 23, 2020 12 min read

In Malinda Lo’s forthcoming Last Night at the Telegraph Club (Dutton Books for Young Readers, January 2020), protagonist Lily Hu feels the...

Hannah Abigail Clarke Wants More Unabashedly Queer Narratives

Todd Wellman

Features

December 15, 2020 5 min read

When writer and Lambda Literary fellow Hannah Abigail Clarke calls themselves terribly handsome, you cheer. On others, it would chip away faster...

Edmund White Wants to Share Some Gossip with You

William Johnson

Features

December 3, 2020 9 min read

For our end of year fundraising campaign, we reached out to several noted LGBTQ writers to spotlight the ongoing importance...

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

Two Black Queer Men Talking: Gar McVey-Russell Chats With Casey Hamilton About His Debut Novel MENAFTER10

On Controversy, Looking Back, and The Selected Poems of Emanuel Xavier

Bernard L. Lumpkin on Elevating Black Queer Art

Phil Stamper on the Thrill of Figuring Out Where You Belong

May We Present… Zak Salih’s Let’s Get Back to the Party

Douglas A. Martin on Writing an Anti-True Crime Novel

Ryan La Sala on Being a Menace to Reality

Malinda Lo on Writing a Coming-of-Age Love Story

Hannah Abigail Clarke Wants More Unabashedly Queer Narratives

Edmund White Wants to Share Some Gossip with You

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