"Comprehensive in scope, editor Katherine Bucknell has worked with Bachardy to amass all the letters known to exist that the couple ever exchanged." Read More
Dan Lopez peoples his sea narratives with gay men, both white and of color, and in doing so reexamines the genre, not unlike Annie’s Proulx’s reexamination of the cowboy narrative in Brokeback Mountain. Read More
"Life will proceed without you, and there is 'no ending,' per se, to anything. The only way to wrap-up a story that involves a dozen or more people would be to drop a bomb on them." Read More
Like New York City, James McCourt’s unconventional memoir feels like a work simultaneously complete and still in progress. Read More
"Despite our sincerest yearnings we remain simple mortals with more mundane abilities. My power turned out to be queerness, an inherent difference that allowed me to question that which often goes unquestioned in society." Read More
David Sedaris took a break from his hectic tour schedule to chat with Lambda Literary about the enduring power of camp, familial relationships, and the difficulties of life on the road. Read More
Mundo Cruel is a shrewd celebration of subversion, to be sure, but for all its bravado the broader point here is a quiet reaffirmation that we all possess the innate capacity to subvert the status quo. Read More
Jamie Manrique’s Cervantes Street is a picturesque imagining of the great Spanish master’s epic life. Told from the alternating points of view of Cervantes himself, a self-assured genius from humble beginnings, and his childhood friend Luis de Lara, a man of great privilege, power, and jealousy... Read More
With the publication of The Garden of Lost & Found, Dale Peck comes one step closer to completing the five-novel cycle he conceived of in the mid-90s. Drawing inspiration from a familiar cast of characters as well as his adopted home town of New York City, Peck delivers a novel that explores family, sexuality, AIDS, and the resiliency of the city.
The prolific novelist and sometimes critic chatted with Lambda Literary about his career, his latest novel's long road to publication, and the evolving face of publishing in the twenty-first century. Read More
“…Stardom. It’s a greedy goal and it comes with lots of traps of arrogance, but the way I justify it...
