"I love reading from this book because I’ve never had these kind of responses to anything I’ve written. I think it’s because everyone has an apocalyptic fantasy life."
Lucy Corin spoke to Lambda Literary about her new collection, One Hundred Apocalypses and Other Apocalypses, end of the world fantasies, and her strengths and limitations as a writer. Read More
Like many beach-themed novels in which a get-away is providing a much-needed escape from real lives, the intoxicating allure of hedonism and all-things illicit are the driving forces for many of the characters we meet in Monarch Season. Read More
If books have sensibilities, and I believe they do, Georgeann Packard’s Paint the Bird has an artist’s—it is dark, moody,...
Reading A Hundred Apocalypses and Other Apocalypses is like walking past a mirror in the dark. You are caught off guard until you realize you are looking at your own reflection[...] Read More
Jill Malone’s Giraffe People (Bywater Books) is a rich exploration of character Cole Peters’s adolescent angst: difficult parents, irascible siblings, evil...
Ali Liebegott’s novel Cha-Ching! is like a message in a bottle, a moment of desperation, survival and dreams. The novel,...
The Art of Joy is a novel of ideas. It’s concerned with birth, life, and death, the education of women, politics, social and cultural history, sexuality, free love, psychoanalysis, familial bonds, childrearing, and more. Read More
"[I]n his most successful stories, Edwards merges the fanciful with a strong emotional core, which gives those fantastic elements a deeper, metaphorical meaning, particularly when paired with queer characters." Read More
Every story in Nancy Jo Cullen’s debut collection skates along the edge of weirdness. These characters are just a tiny bit off, drawing the reader into their delightful eccentricities. Read More
“…good writing—good fiction—begins with an idea. And this idea has to have a soul, a pulse, a heartbeat; it has...
