Excerpts Archives

November 1, 2015 6 min read

The Gap of Time is a decidedly queer "remix" of William Shakespeare's Winter's Tale, from celebrated author Jeanette Winterson. Read More

A Look at LGBTQ Homeless Teens: Read an Excerpt from Ryan Berg’s ‘No House To Call My Home’

William Johnson

Excerpts News

August 17, 2015 9 min read

The book is an illuminating account of the lives of a group of New York City LGBTQ homeless youth Read More

Read an Excerpt from ‘The Right Side of History: 100 Years or LGBTQI Activism’: Miss Major Griffin-Gracy’s Reflections on the Stonewall Riots

William Johnson

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July 21, 2015 7 min read

"The night of Stonewall, two friends and I sat in Sheridan Square talking with the boys, trying to have a good time." Read More

Read an Excerpt from Max Steele’s Nightlife-Themed Zine ‘Door Girls’

William Johnson

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May 22, 2015 9 min read

Door Girls is a humorously deadpan snapshot of a New York City nightlife denizen Read More

Read Peter Cameron’s Afterword for the Novel ‘Totempole’

William Johnson

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September 23, 2014 1 min read

This month, NYRB Classics is re-releasing Sanford Friedman’s 1965 novel Totempole. The novel details the romantic relationship between its protagonist...

Read Jericho Brown’s Introduction to ‘Prime: Poetry & Conversation’

William Johnson

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June 29, 2014 4 min read

"For a poem to coalesce, for a character or an action to take shape, there has to be an imaginative transformation of reality which is in no way passive." Read More

Read an Excerpt from Alexis De Veaux’s New Book ‘Yabo’

William Johnson

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May 21, 2014 4 min read

Yabo lyrically maps the spiritual and physical borders between love, passion, sexuality, and gender. Read More

Read an Excerpt from Max Steele’s Porno Poetry Zine ‘Scorcher’

William Johnson

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May 6, 2014 5 min read

Scorcher is a darkly comic examination of modern queer desire. Read More

Read an Excerpt from Christopher Coe’s ‘I Look Divine’

William Johnson

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November 10, 2013 1 min read

In October, Bruno Gmünder released a new edition of Christopher Coe’s beloved novel I Look Divine, with a new introduction from author...

Read an Excerpt from Sarah Schulman’s ‘After Delores’

William Johnson

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September 17, 2013 1 min read

This month, Arsenal Pulp Press is releasing a new edition of Sarah Schulman’s celebrated novel After Delores. Initially published in 1988, this gritty...

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

‘Beyond Binary: Genderqueer and Sexually Fluid Speculative Fiction’ edited by Brit Mandelo

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

Read an Excerpt from Jeanette Winterson’s New Novel ‘The Gap of Time’

A Look at LGBTQ Homeless Teens: Read an Excerpt from Ryan Berg’s ‘No House To Call My Home’

Read an Excerpt from ‘The Right Side of History: 100 Years or LGBTQI Activism’: Miss Major Griffin-Gracy’s Reflections on the Stonewall Riots

Read an Excerpt from Max Steele’s Nightlife-Themed Zine ‘Door Girls’

Read Peter Cameron’s Afterword for the Novel ‘Totempole’

Read Jericho Brown’s Introduction to ‘Prime: Poetry & Conversation’

Read an Excerpt from Alexis De Veaux’s New Book ‘Yabo’

Read an Excerpt from Max Steele’s Porno Poetry Zine ‘Scorcher’

Read an Excerpt from Christopher Coe’s ‘I Look Divine’

Read an Excerpt from Sarah Schulman’s ‘After Delores’

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