"I'm actually really into pretending that I'm Kathleen Turner in Serial Mom for my readings. I like to put on my antique crystal earrings and a chic frock, and reading in an almost bedtime story style, this utterly malicious and repugnant novel." Read More
Finding the nuggets of reality within each story is the real joy to be had in reading these campy vignettes. Read More
In less than five pages of Lake Thirteen (Soliloquy), Greg Herren yanks you into a tale of fear and love....
The Laboratory of Love, Patrick Roscoe’s first collection of fiction in over a decade, offers a series of stories that...
Roscoe knows his subject’s work and life thoroughly; he knows that the difference between Wescott’s first-person stories and first-person essays can be paper thin. He very smartly arranged the autobiographical material in A Visit to Priapus chronologically to trace for the newcomer the arc of Wecott’s life, and in the process he also happily satisfies the Wescott lover’s taste for more quality work.
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"While the juxtaposition of what is told with what is suggested provides a good deal of tension in the novel, we are also gripped by the time and place of Leavitt’s story: Lisbon in the summer 1940, a year into World War II..." Read More
Gurganus delivers airtight stories told in language as distinctive as you’ll ever want. Read More
I am even less than I thought. The wind in the whorl and not the shell itself. This is what...
"[...] write your truth however painful it is or may be. You have to do that in order to create a narrative that is honest and true to your art or your idea of art. Let the pain guide you."
Author Danny M. Hoey Jr., took some time to talk to Lambda Literary about the intricacies of his debut novel, The Butterfly Lady, and the intersections between his professional academic life and his artistic ambitions. Read More
The seven stories in this simply but beautifully written, haunted and haunting collection are told from the point of view...
