"So many gay social spaces are disappearing—bars, pubs, bookshops, clubs—there are fewer and fewer. At the same time, gay people are becoming more confident and unselfconscious." Read More
Authors Edmund White, Felice Picano, and Andrew Holleran reflect on their years together as the Violet Quill and publishing today, AIDS literature, Queer Theory, and writing gay characters. Read More
"I tend to write about people, who like myself to some degree, are loners by temperament, or live in their own sort of imaginative world. I think I tended to do that a fair bit actually. That has more interest to me than writing a happy love story..."
Lambda talks with Alan Hollinghurst about poetry, publishing, love, money and, of course, beauty. Read More
"I’m all for a good dose of literary misery, but I can’t help wonder if there aren’t additional meaningful, and dramatically potent, channels into the heart of the human experience, another way to infusion cells. What about joy?"
Writer Ayana Mathis explores the transformative power of joy in literature. Read More
If the point of a writer’s biographical note is to make it sound like the writer is busy, then Los...
Godmother of Punk Patti Smith released her memoir Just Kids to critical acclaim in 2009, winning her a National Book...
Lambda Literary Award Finalist If you could change who you are, would you? Should you? This is both the tag...
It should come as no surprise that Colm Tóibín admires Henry James; Tóibín, after all, wrote a novelization of James’...
Don Quixote, one of the greatest works of world literature, has been the object of academic studies since the inception...
