Today, it's our pleasure to bring you four centos by Eduardo C. Corral, all revisiting the work of Tim Dlugos. Corral is a CantoMundo fellow and the recipient of a 2011 Whiting Writers' Award. Slow Lightning, his first book of poems, won the 2011 Yale Series of Younger Poets competition. Read More
It is difficult to casually categorise Manuel Muñoz's first novel. Mystery? Noir thriller? Romance? Literary fiction? Historical fiction? Meta-fiction? The answer, as it turns out, is all of the above. Read More
Many of these poems seem interested in the embodiment of the spiritual, finding God (or something like it) through the human body, and sometimes non-human. Read More
The vibrant stories in Lysley Tenorio’s debut collection, Monstress (Ecco), depict an immigrant experience that reveals the implications of what it means to be a perpetual outsider. Intimate portrayals give way to larger meditations in these eight stories of Filipino fiction. Read More
Christopher Bram opens the introduction to this informative and highly entertaining overview of gay male writing since World War Two with, “The gay revolution began as a literary revolution.” Read More
Coming out is a process as endless as its audiences, Francisco Aragón aptly quotes Kenji Yoshino in Glow of Our...
Stephen Sondheim has a genius for remembering in painstaking detail the story of his own life. The subtle nuances of a particular memory are fully realized here with astonishing clarity... Read More
"I find it really fun and interesting to be gay now. The culture you get to enjoy is so hilarious and diverse and full of camp. There is such an appreciation of camp and surrealism. It’s a banquet."
Author and creative director at Barney’s, Simon Doonan's sixth book Gay Men Don't Get Fat offers help for the helpless, through the well-manicured hands of gay men. Part self-help, part humorously anecdotal, and part manifesto dedicated to simply loving the gayness that makes you...well, you; Gay Men Don't Get Fat mainly serves to help those that need a bit of encouragement to walk a bit more fiercely on this planet.
Doonan took some time to talk with Lambda about the unconventionality of being gay, his favourite literary divas, and the wonders of gay slang. Read More
One of the heroes responsible for changing the medical establishment’s understanding that gay people can be sane, Silverstein helped sway the American Psychiatric Association to remove homosexuality from its list of mental illnesses in 1973. What’s most disturbing (or exonerating) about For the Ferryman is that even a shrink of Silverstein’s stature can be sucked into a tumultuous psycho-dependent relationship. Read More
In D.A. Powell’s fifth book, he takes up the landscapes of the Central Valley. He shows us the churches and the malls, the housing developments and the gay bars, the parking lots and the fields (yes, there are naughty times to be had in all)... Read More
