Fiction Archives

September 13, 2017 12 min read

"When I was born, my mother was so horrified to be handed a female baby that she took three months to name me. My birth certificate just says 'Gore Girl.'" Read More

‘The Blue Spong and the Flight from Mediocrity’ by St. Sukie de la Croix

Rachel Wexelbaum

Fiction

August 30, 2017 3 min read

In The Blue Spong and the Flight from Mediocrity, author St. Sukie de la Croix uses the concept of mediocrity as a metaphor for a heteronormative life dictated by religion, patriarchy, and colonialism Read More

‘The Gift’ by Barbara Browning

Christina Tesoro

Fiction

August 29, 2017 2 min read

The Gift explores the concept of a novel-as-performance-art and the gauzy line between fiction and non-fiction Read More

‘#gods’ by Matthew Gallaway

John Bavoso

Fiction

August 28, 2017 3 min read

Gallaway’s #gods is an ambitious, finely wrought novel that uses a variety of voices and innovative styles to explore issues of faith, religion, and connection in the modern world Read More

‘The Disintegrations’ by Alistair McCartney

Steven Cordova

Reviews

August 19, 2017 4 min read

The Disintegrations is an engaging, enigmatic meditation on death that’s both conversational and humorous Read More

‘The Tower of the Antilles’ by Achy Obejas

Anne Charles

Reviews

August 17, 2017 3 min read

Cuba’s distinctive history and culture shape The Tower of Antilles with the unique negotiations with identity, memory and the idea of home that complicate the lives of the residents, exiles, and expatriates alike. Read More

‘Marriage of a Thousand Lies’ by SJ Sindu

Allison Punch

Reviews

August 14, 2017 2 min read

This debut novel is many things all at once: It is a love story, a story of personal identity, and a story of family and community Read More

‘How to Survive a Summer’ by Nick White

Gordon West

Reviews

August 12, 2017 2 min read

How to Survive a Summer follows the travails of a Mississippi preacher’s son, from his tumultuous youth to his existence as a growth-stunted grad student Read More

Blacklight: ‘The Night Ocean’ Excavates One Man’s Obsession With the Enigmatic Horror Maestro H. P. Lovecraft

John Copenhaver

Fiction

August 3, 2017 2 min read

La Farge is wonderfully skilled at revealing the textured psychology of obsession, while making us as readers complicit Read More

‘Listening to the Dead’ by George Seaton

Keith Glaeske

Mystery

July 30, 2017 2 min read

"Despite the quasi-mystical premise of the novel, in many ways Listening to the Dead speaks more truthfully about policework and men’s relationships than some crime and romance novels that purport to do just that." Read More

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

Philip Dean Walker: On 1980s Nostalgia, Listening to Sylvester, and Writing a Themed Collection

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 Ariel Gore’s Hallucinatory Examination of Queerness and Motherhood

‘The Blue Spong and the Flight from Mediocrity’ by St. Sukie de la Croix

‘The Gift’ by Barbara Browning

‘#gods’ by Matthew Gallaway

‘The Disintegrations’ by Alistair McCartney

‘The Tower of the Antilles’ by Achy Obejas

‘Marriage of a Thousand Lies’ by SJ Sindu

‘How to Survive a Summer’ by Nick White

Blacklight: ‘The Night Ocean’ Excavates One Man’s Obsession With the Enigmatic Horror Maestro H. P. Lovecraft

‘Listening to the Dead’ by George Seaton

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