"What is the best way to handle being a new slightly lonely lesbian in the big city?" Read More
Writer Ayana Mathis on the legacy of Nelson Mandela. Read More
The Twelve Tribes of Hattie does not feel like a debut novel. The quality of the writing, its quiet intensity, the certainty of the narrative voices speaks of a polish and talent that has been practicing for years. Read More
This week the Lambda Literary Review honors the impact movies and filmmakers have had on our lives.
To start off Lambda Literary Goes to the Movies week, here's what some of our favorite LGBTQ authors (Staceyann Chin, Alan Hollinghurst, Ayana Mathis, and more) had to say about their favorite films. Read More
Last month, Oprah Winfrey selected Ayana Mathis’ debut novel, The Twelve Tribes of Hattie, as her second pick for the newly launched Oprah Book Club 2.0. Since then, the book has taken off. Mathis has since been profiled twice in the New York Times, and has spent the last two weeks on the New York Times bestseller list.
Mathis sat down with Lambda Literary to talk about her writing process, how the legacy of Toni Morrison informed her writing, and the many unexpected forms that love can take. Read More
Author Ayana Mathis' striking debut novel The Twelve Tribes of Hattie (Knopf) has been picked as Oprah's latest book club selection. Read More
From the “cross country road trips” in Trebor Healey’s A Horse Named Sorrow, to a “contemporary look at AIDS and...
Lambda Literary queried a cadre of authors (Edmund White, Susan Stinson, Jewelle Gomez, Dennis Cooper, Kelli Dunham, and many more) to answer the question: what was your favorite LGBTQ book of 2011? Read More
"I’m all for a good dose of literary misery, but I can’t help wonder if there aren’t additional meaningful, and dramatically potent, channels into the heart of the human experience, another way to infusion cells. What about joy?"
Writer Ayana Mathis explores the transformative power of joy in literature. Read More
