I Loved You More provides an empathic view of bisexual relationships as the most natural in the world... Read More
Dan Lopez peoples his sea narratives with gay men, both white and of color, and in doing so reexamines the genre, not unlike Annie’s Proulx’s reexamination of the cowboy narrative in Brokeback Mountain. Read More
Call it a literary crime novel, call it historical fiction, call it lyric and engaging, Frog Music is in a category all its own. Read More
The fragmented episodes of the picaresque plot are tied together by an underlying emotional narrative: that of Nochita trying to balance her mother's values with the need for self-preservation, feeling out the difference between softening and disintegration. Read More
"...I think the characters I write are freaks, but that does not mean I don’t completely and voraciously respect and love them. The word itself denotes something on display, as in a carnival or sideshow freak, so I think the way I see 'freaks' in what I do is that they somehow cannot hide their aberrations—they have to exist in a world that gawks at them, tries to fix or hide them." Read More
This collection establishes Milks as a writer who can do just about anything but who will, one expects, keep doing the bidding of her macabre but humane imagination. Read More
In The Desperates, a potent debut novel and current Lammy nominee for gay fiction, Canadian Greg Kearney mines fairly specific territory—cancer and chemotherapy, life with HIV, methamphetamine, fantasies of self-destruction—to uncover provocative insights about broader themes like birth and death, and family [...] Read More
"Someone asked me, 'Did you think of the book as political?' and of course it is. This is what interests me. I could be writing about two hamsters running on a wheel and it becomes political." Read More
While still rooted in the loss and triumph of bloody battles, Myers challenges the well-worn patriot’s tale by focusing on Deborah Sampson Gannett, a real-life historical figure who successfully disguised herself as a man in order to enlist in the Revolutionary army. Read More
"[...] Rabih Alameddine’s An Unnecessary Woman sets forth a different definition of a 'reader’s novel': this is a novel for voracious readers of literary fiction and fiction in translation." Read More
