Mabel Dodge courted writers and artists to spend time at her home; she desired not only to replicate but to exceed the efforts of her New York City salons. Emma Goldman, Alfred Stieglitz, Margaret Sanger, John Reed, Georgia O’Keefe, Willa Cather, Ansel Adams, Carl Jung, D.H. Lawrence, Frank Waters, Aldous Huxley are just some of her esteemed guests. Read More
"There is something melodic and meditative about Gertrude Stein’s writing, in both its lexical simplicity and repetition..." Read More
An assortment of writers, including Michelle Tea, Malinda Lo, Darnell Moore, and Miguel Morales, answer a few questions about the nature of queer writing. Read More
Let me be blunt: it is pretty freaking amazing to have a major musical production about a lesbian, and a butch lesbian to boot. A part of me is still a bit dumbfounded, "Did I really just see a butch lesbian on the stage of the Public Theater?" Read More
Academic freedom, and, simply put, teaching in general, is a precarious enterprise for the queer adjunct. Read More
Kate Bornstein’s memoir, A Queer and Pleasant Danger, hereafter QPD, featured as the capstone of my “American Literature” course last...
Two years ago, at the Lambda Literary awards, Edward Albee rankled more than a few attendees when in his acceptance...
“The media has replaced every institution”—Fran Lebowitz is always right, isn’t she? Yet even I think she could not foretell...
We are what we read, and, arguably, we are how we write.
This semester in all of my seven—yes, seven (yes, ah, “adjuncting”)—undergraduate courses I am requiring that students do a fair amount of in-class writing assignments—all handwritten. Why? Because the mind, I think, functions differently writing by hand as opposed to typing. Read More
