*Gay Archives

August 3, 2011 3 min read

Workers? Check. Athletes? Check. Cute boys ready to sell Abercrombie & Fitch? Check. Bodybuilder beefcake? Check. This book is bursting...

‘The Third Buddha’ by Jameson Currier

Howard G. Williams

Fiction Reviews

July 27, 2011 3 min read

The first chapter of Jameson Currier’s new novel, The Third Buddha (Chelsea Station Editions), begins with a Chelsea dinner party...

Literotic: ‘Teleny and Camille’ by Jon Macy

Chuck Forester

Features Erotica Reviews

July 25, 2011 3 min read

In the introduction to Teleny and Camille (Northwest Press)— the 2011 Lambda Literary Award Winner for Best Gay Erotica—the author...

Tom Schabarum:Writing from the Well of Emotion

Matthew Yau

Features Interviews

July 24, 2011 5 min read

“Writing is a deep need for me, an almost necessary component to my existence. In fact, some days I believe...

‘The German’ by Lee Thomas

Vince Liaguno

Mystery Reviews Speculative Fiction

July 18, 2011 3 min read

In The German (Lethe Press), a savage serial killer forces the denizens of a small World War II-era Texas town...

‘If You Knew Then What I Know Now’ by Ryan Van Meter

Nels P. Highberg

Bio/Memoir Reviews

July 18, 2011 2 min read

I have written a few reviews for LLF over the last couple of years, but I have never said this...

‘The VIPs’ by Scott Poulson-Bryant

Curt Weber

Fiction Reviews

July 12, 2011 1 min read

The VIPs (Broadway Books/Random House), Scott Poulson-Bryant’s first novel, is no let-down. The author must have spent many a night...

‘Leche’ by R. Zamora Linmark

Nicholas Boggs

Fiction

July 4, 2011 2 min read

In the opening pages of R. Zamora Linmark’s sprawling new novel, Leche (Coffee House Press), a young gay Filipino-born American,...

‘Remembrance of Things I Forgot’ by Bob Smith

Christopher Verleger

Fiction Reviews

June 29, 2011 2 min read

At one time or another, we’ve all said, “If only I had known then what I know now”, or “If...

‘The Empty Family’ by Colm Tóibín

Viet Dinh

Fiction Reviews

June 22, 2011 3 min read

It should come as no surprise that Colm Tóibín admires Henry James; Tóibín, after all, wrote a novelization of James’...

Reviews

Unearthing Queer Archive in Early 1990’s West Palm Beach, Florida

The Mars House: Science Fiction and the Hazards of Imagination

Maps of Belonging: Italian Trans Geographies

Random

Philip Dean Walker: On 1980s Nostalgia, Listening to Sylvester, and Writing a Themed Collection

Features

Unearthing Queer Archive in Early 1990’s West Palm Beach, Florida

Maps of Belonging: Italian Trans Geographies

Dreaming up a Hopeful Future: A Conversation with Grist authors on queer climate fiction

Interviews

Bonds & Boundaries: A Conversation with Dale Corvino

Dreaming up a Hopeful Future: A Conversation with Grist authors on queer climate fiction

“What if it was both and all of the above?”: An interview with CJ Hauser

Excerpts

An Excerpt from Sleep Tight Satellite: Stories by Carol Guess

Read This! Excerpt from the delicacy of embracing spirals by mimi tempestt

Read This! Excerpt from American Gospel by Miah Jeffra

‘Polaroids’ by Attila Richard Lukacs and Michael Morris

‘The Third Buddha’ by Jameson Currier

Literotic: ‘Teleny and Camille’ by Jon Macy

Tom Schabarum:Writing from the Well of Emotion

‘The German’ by Lee Thomas

‘If You Knew Then What I Know Now’ by Ryan Van Meter

‘The VIPs’ by Scott Poulson-Bryant

‘Leche’ by R. Zamora Linmark

‘Remembrance of Things I Forgot’ by Bob Smith

‘The Empty Family’ by Colm Tóibín

Unearthing Queer Archive in Early 1990’s West Palm Beach, Florida

The Mars House: Science Fiction and the Hazards of Imagination

Maps of Belonging: Italian Trans Geographies

The High Stakes of Young Adulthood: A Review of Idlewild by James Frankie Thomas

People Collide by Isle McElroy: A Review

Reviewing Bad Gays; or how we use the past to shape the future

A Review of Cassandra Khaw’s The Salt Grows Heavy

If property is theft, then what is a photograph? A Review of The Unintended by Monica Huerta