"Each [character] is touched by enough quirky characteristics and backstory to keep them unique-- no easy task, but Aoki pulls it off by drawing on the sounds, smells, and rhythms associated with each individual and the different spaces their hearts compel them to inhabit." Read More
"[...A] quick-witted and moving novel that acutely explores the ways in which families mourn, the toll death takes on relationships and the resilience that allows people to survive [...]" Read More
James Magruder’s Let Me See It (TriQuarterly Books/Northwestern University Press) is a collection often interlocking stories that follow the lives...
The very concept of a porn star adjusting to the real world suggests a glossy, knockabout comedy, but after the whole operation is underway, Looking After Joey takes a sidestep away from the obvious jokes. Read More
"The premise of the novel is supposed to be provocative. It’s supposed to ignite feelings of 'Oooh that’s problematic.'" Read More
"[...] what happens to a couple when one person changes so much he or she becomes almost unrecognizable to the other?"
Author Judith Frank talks to Lambda Literary about her new novel, All I Love and Know, exploring relationship dynamics through her characters, and her literary inspirations. Read More
"Stumbling towards love--from others, from the self--is a messy affair for the twenty-something not-children yet not-quite-adults of Plett's worlds." Read More
The Walk-in Closet is an intelligent, moving portrait of a family caught between its past and its future, between the happiness all the characters seek and the grand, unsustainable facade blocking their path. Read More
Moving deftly from Coney Island to Africa to the first-ever Academy Award ceremony and back, O, Africa! is an engrossing and thought-provoking novel about self-discovery and the occasionally dangerous power of the movies.
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"I think punk is perceived as a very aggressive, male thing, and that isn’t the whole story. First of all, the music is so uplifting, political and angry, I don’t know why all feminists don’t listen to it. Women in our culture have so much to be angry about, so why aren’t we embracing our anger more?"
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