Fiction Archives

April 1, 2015 2 min read

It’s easy to lose yourself in The Gracekeepers. Logan’s rich tapestry of characters and storylines, her deft language and her exquisitely built world add up to a deep, intriguing, and accessible novel. Read More

‘Daydreamers’ by Jonathan Harper

Keith Glaeske

Fiction Reviews

March 15, 2015 2 min read

Jonathan Harper's debut collection Daydreamers is aptly named: each story contains the ruminations of young men drifting through their lives, either making bad choices or failing to choose Read More

‘Call Me Home’ by Megan Kruse

Sara Rauch

Fiction Reviews

March 8, 2015 2 min read

Call Me Home, as the title implies, focuses very strongly on the idea of home. It’s place-based for sure, but in this novel, who we call home is even more important. Read More

‘Aquarium’ by David Vann

John Bavoso

Fiction Reviews

March 8, 2015 2 min read

Ultimately, the characters in Aquarium are desperately struggling to move toward forgiveness and redemption—it’s a story you can’t help but be submerged in completely Read More

Helen Humphreys: On Her New Novel ‘The Evening Chorus,’ Her Creative Process, and the Solitary Act of Writing

Julie R. Enszer

Interviews

March 2, 2015 11 min read

"I struggle with writing because to write well you have to remove yourself somewhat from the life around you. It is a lonely business." Read More

‘Don’t Let Him Know’ by Sandip Roy

Francisco Tirado

Fiction Reviews

February 22, 2015 3 min read

Sandip Roy’s Don’t Let Him Know is a multi-generational story venturing deep into the hidden pasts of a single family over the course of decades. Read More

‘The Evening Chorus’ by Helen Humphreys

Julie R. Enszer

Fiction Reviews

February 14, 2015 4 min read

The power of The Evening Chorus is accumulation: a plot that unfolds at a comfortable pace, characters that feel usual, even ordinary, and thus interesting in their familiarity, and exquisite sentences Read More

‘Love Is Enough’ by Cindy Rizzo

Anna Furtado

Reviews Romance

February 12, 2015 2 min read

When Massachusetts Congressional Representative, Angie Antonelli, gives in to her friend Patty to go out on a blind date with...

Chloe Caldwell: On Writing Her Novella ‘Women,’ Her Literary Inspirations, and Falling in Love With Queer Literature

Paige Cohen

Features Interviews

February 9, 2015 8 min read

"I think it’s so magical when you find some new kind of art, and once you start opening your eyes to it, you start seeing it everywhere." Read More

‘Jam on the Vine’ by LaShonda Katrice Barnett

Mel Morrow

Fiction Reviews

February 8, 2015 3 min read

Jam on the Vine will resonate with many kinds of readers in myriad ways. Not only is it a well-researched and historically accurate account of southern African American survival, northern migration, and identity formation, it is an arresting real-world allegory. 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

‘The Gracekeepers’ by Kirsty Logan

‘Daydreamers’ by Jonathan Harper

‘Call Me Home’ by Megan Kruse

‘Aquarium’ by David Vann

Helen Humphreys: On Her New Novel ‘The Evening Chorus,’ Her Creative Process, and the Solitary Act of Writing

‘Don’t Let Him Know’ by Sandip Roy

‘The Evening Chorus’ by Helen Humphreys

‘Love Is Enough’ by Cindy Rizzo

Chloe Caldwell: On Writing Her Novella ‘Women,’ Her Literary Inspirations, and Falling in Love With Queer Literature

‘Jam on the Vine’ by LaShonda Katrice Barnett

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