Last year was big one for self-publishing. E.L. James (who famously got her start self-publishing) won Publishers Weekly’s author of...
Rafael Fannen is indeed young (14 years old), gifted (recipient of a minority scholarship to an all-male Catholic preparatory school),...
"In all I read about him, Thoreau never really became more than the wooden icon who tramped the woods and wrote brilliant essays. But he was a living, breathing, gay man who yearned for love..."
A few bold scholars have explored the mystery of Henry David Thoreau's love life, but author John Schuyler Bishop has now written a novel about it, appropriately titled Thoreau in Love.
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There’s been a great deal of snarkiness about this literary prize. “Why only women?” “Isn’t this sexism in reverse?” Read More
The natural world looms large in Jean Ryan’s meditative short-story collection, Survival Skills (Ashland Creek Press). These thirteen stories inhabit...
Best Lesbian Romance 2013 (Cleis Press) is edited by Radclyffe—renowned author and founder/publisher of Bold Strokes Books. In her introduction, Radclyffe...
The seven stories in this simply but beautifully written, haunted and haunting collection are told from the point of view...
[,,.] André Aciman’s greatest accomplishment with his latest novel: the crafting of a thoroughly inclusive love letter to those who have ever felt excluded. Read More
Society is often both attracted and repelled by the artist, just as artists are often attracted and repelled by their own vision and talent. McKenzie gives this concept blazing vivid life in The Summer We Got Free. Read More
