Bywater Books Archives

August 29, 2011 2 min read

Joan Opyr’s novel, Shaken and Stirred (Bywater Books), has a familiar premise: A young woman with a dysfunctional and sometimes...

‘Parallel Lies’ by Stella Duffy

Victoria Brownworth

Fiction Reviews

February 1, 2011 3 min read

Lambda Literary Award Finalist Anyone who even glances at the tabloids by the register at the local drugstore or supermarket...

New in November: Ricky Martin & Portia de Rossi

Antonio Gonzalez Cerna

Features

November 3, 2010 6 min read

This month two celebrity memoirs—Ricky Martin‘s Me and Portia de Rossi‘s Unbearable Lightness—will make likely bestsellers. Expect to see Martin...

‘I Came Out for This?’ By Lisa Gitlin

Victoria Brownworth

Reviews Romance

September 28, 2010 2 min read

Bywater Books has been making a concerted effort to play with the big guns–Bella and Bold Strokes–in both the romance...

New In August

Antonio Gonzalez Cerna

Features

August 5, 2010 4 min read

August ushers in Justin Spring’s much-anticipated book, The Secret Historian, a revealing biography of poet and university professor Samuel Steward....

‘Risk’ by Elana Dykewomon

Rachel Wexelbaum

Fiction

May 26, 2010 3 min read

Lambda Award Finalist If a “canon” existed for lesbian writers, the works of Elana Dykewomon would surely have a place...

‘Risk’ by Elana Dykewomon

Mikaya Heart

Fiction

May 15, 2010 2 min read

This story spans a dozen years in the life of Carol, a fat Jewish femme lesbian living in Berkeley. She...

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

‘Nothing Pink’ by Mark Hardy

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

‘Shaken and Stirred’ by Joan Opyr

‘Parallel Lies’ by Stella Duffy

New in November: Ricky Martin & Portia de Rossi

‘I Came Out for This?’ By Lisa Gitlin

New In August

‘Risk’ by Elana Dykewomon

‘Risk’ by Elana Dykewomon

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