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November 8, 2021 4 min read

An excerpt from Damian Alexander’s graphic novel memoir, Other Boys, an emotional debut about bullying, grief, and coming out. Read More

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Read This! Excerpt of The Savage Kind – John Copenhaver’s New Thriller

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October 14, 2021 7 min read

Two teenage girls in 1940s Washington, DC, become unlikely friends and unravel a dark mystery in The Savage Kind by John Copenhaver. Read More

Excerpt of Alison Bechdel’s The Secret to Superhuman Strength

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May 6, 2021 1 min read

The following is an excerpt from The Secret to Superhuman Strength (Houghton Mifflin), a profoundly affecting graphic memoir of cartoonist Alison...

Melissa Febos Navigates Fear and Desire in the Striking Collection, Girlhood

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March 30, 2021 12 min read

The following is an excerpt from Melissa Febos’ highly anticipated collection of essays, entitled Girlhood, set to be released on...

Read This! Isobel Bess’ Powerful Anyway I Saw a Light There

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November 10, 2020 6 min read

The following is excerpted from anyway i saw a light there, the new collection by Lambda Literary Fellow Isobel Bess. Crafted with a rigorous...

Teen Witches on the Move! Read Hannah Abigail Clarke’s The Scapegracers

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September 1, 2020 40 min read

The following is excerpted from The Scapegracers (Erewhon), the debut novel by Lambda Literary Fellow Hannah Abigail Clarke. The young...

Read This! Benjamin Garcia’s Electrifying Thrown in the Throat

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August 11, 2020 7 min read

The following is excerpted from Thrown in the Throat (Milkweed Editions), the debut poetry collection by Lambda Literary Fellow Benjamin Garcia. With exhilarating candor,...

Lesbian Love on the Doomed Titanic Voyage

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June 25, 2020 11 min read

Our hearts will definitely go on thanks to the new novella by writer Sarah Fonseca. Fonseca’s Sea Queens deepens the...

Pizza Pies & Longing Drive the Narrative in Jean Kyoung Frazier’s Pizza Girl

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June 24, 2020 6 min read

The following is excerpted from Pizza Girl (Doubleday), the new novel by Jean Kyoung Frazier. Pizza Girl follows a pregnant pizza...

A Reluctant Detective Tracks a Killer in Jon Michaelsen’s New Novel

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June 17, 2020 10 min read

The following is excerpted from The Deadwood Murders (a Kendall Parker Mystery – Book 2), the new thriller by writer Jon Michaelsen....

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Where are the Ancestors: Stephen Patrick Bell in Conversation with Justin Torres on Blackouts

Call for In Remembrance for LGBTQIAP+ Authors

The Tea is Hot And So Are The Boys

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‘Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh’ by John Lahr

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Call for In Remembrance for LGBTQIAP+ Authors

The Tea is Hot And So Are The Boys

A Faun in the Forest

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Where are the Ancestors: Stephen Patrick Bell in Conversation with Justin Torres on Blackouts

A Conversation with Poet, Essayist, and Critic Matt Mitchell

With a Love Letter to Queer Black Folx, Dior Stephens Draws a Velvet Rope Around the Table They Set for Their Community

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An Excerpt from Sleep Tight Satellite: Stories by Carol Guess

Read This! Excerpt from the delicacy of embracing spirals by mimi tempestt

In Bed with Joan Nestle

Read This! Excerpt of Other Boys — Damian Alexander’s Graphic Novel

Read This! Excerpt of The Savage Kind – John Copenhaver’s New Thriller

Excerpt of Alison Bechdel’s The Secret to Superhuman Strength

Melissa Febos Navigates Fear and Desire in the Striking Collection, Girlhood

Read This! Isobel Bess’ Powerful Anyway I Saw a Light There

Teen Witches on the Move! Read Hannah Abigail Clarke’s The Scapegracers

Read This! Benjamin Garcia’s Electrifying Thrown in the Throat

Lesbian Love on the Doomed Titanic Voyage

Pizza Pies & Longing Drive the Narrative in Jean Kyoung Frazier’s Pizza Girl

A Reluctant Detective Tracks a Killer in Jon Michaelsen’s New Novel

The Tea is Hot And So Are The Boys

A Faun in the Forest

An Excerpt from Sleep Tight Satellite: Stories by Carol Guess

Writing to Herself: A Review of Love and Money, Sex and Death by McKenzie Wark