Fiction Archives

October 31, 2016 2 min read

This short story collection is inspired by the heady mix of sex, celebrity, and sinisterness inherent in the metropolitan cities of the 1980s Read More

‘The Jungle Around Us’ by Anne Raeff

Sara Rauch

Fiction Reviews

October 30, 2016 2 min read

The slow, measured prose of these nine interrelated tales approaches big topics—loneliness, belonging, death, fear—and yet, Anne Raeff’s stories are intimate, character driven, and incredibly subtle Read More

William Norwich: On Fashion Week and the “Tyranny of the Red Carpet”

Gee Henry

Interviews

October 18, 2016 8 min read

"My Mrs. Brown began as a reaction to the tyranny of the red carpet: meaning, the message of the red carpet is that you are never fully realized unless you are wearing princess gear, dressed for the ballroom. Read More

‘The Angel of History’ by Rabih Alameddine

Dan Lopez

Fiction Reviews

October 9, 2016 2 min read

In Alameddine’s newest novel, the aftermath of a half-century of war, disease, religious strife, and sexual liberation has left a Middle Eastern San Francisco-based poet addled and on the verge of neurotic collapse. Read More

‘Phantom Limbs’ by Paula Garner

Christina Tesoro

Reviews Young Adult

September 29, 2016 3 min read

Phantom Limbs poses the questions: What do we do with the pain begotten by loss? And what do we create in the space that’s left behind to carry ourselves through? Read More

‘A Thin Bright Line’ by Lucy Jane Bledsoe

Sandra Lambert

Fiction Reviews

September 26, 2016 2 min read

The backdrops of the Cold War, the Civil Rights Movement, and the emerging science of climate research are combined into a novel honoring the queer communities of the 50s and 60s Read More

‘They May Not Mean To, But They Do’ by Cathleen Schine

Daphne Sidor

Fiction Reviews

September 14, 2016 3 min read

Cathleen Schine’s They May Not Mean To, But They Do is a novel about reasonably pleasant people to whom nothing much happens except time, in all its ordinariness and brutality Read More

‘Radical’ by E.M. Kokie

Christina Tesoro

Reviews Young Adult

September 12, 2016 3 min read

The novel contains, from it’s very first line, a very well-rendered sense of anxious anticipation that, throughout the course of the novel, builds to outright dread Read More

‘The Stormwater Drains in Canberra’ by Paul Johan Karlsen

Rachel Wexelbaum

Fiction Reviews

September 7, 2016 3 min read

It takes some courage for a young Norwegian man from a small town to travel around the world for gay sex. In some ways, the novel reads like a fairy tale... The Stormwater Drains in Canberra may serve as a study guide for a new generation of young gay men Read More

‘Vow of Celibacy’ by Erin Judge

Sara Rauch

Fiction Reviews

September 6, 2016 2 min read

Vow of Celibacy, stand-up comedian Erin Judges dishy debut novel, plunges the reader directly into the world of Natalie—bisexual, plus-sized fashion maven, and undertaker of the titular vow. 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

‘At Danceteria and Other Stories’ by Philip Dean Walker

‘The Jungle Around Us’ by Anne Raeff

William Norwich: On Fashion Week and the “Tyranny of the Red Carpet”

‘The Angel of History’ by Rabih Alameddine

‘Phantom Limbs’ by Paula Garner

‘A Thin Bright Line’ by Lucy Jane Bledsoe

‘They May Not Mean To, But They Do’ by Cathleen Schine

‘Radical’ by E.M. Kokie

‘The Stormwater Drains in Canberra’ by Paul Johan Karlsen

‘Vow of Celibacy’ by Erin Judge

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