With this collection of essays Boyd and Kirsch remind us about the scope and sophistication — as well as the playfulness and sensuality — of Stein’s writing. Read More
Mabel Dodge courted writers and artists to spend time at her home; she desired not only to replicate but to exceed the efforts of her New York City salons. Emma Goldman, Alfred Stieglitz, Margaret Sanger, John Reed, Georgia O’Keefe, Willa Cather, Ansel Adams, Carl Jung, D.H. Lawrence, Frank Waters, Aldous Huxley are just some of her esteemed guests. Read More
"There is something melodic and meditative about Gertrude Stein’s writing, in both its lexical simplicity and repetition..." Read More
A Raisin in the Sun was not Lorraine Hansberry’s only work. She did write other things--many other things--including work that displayed the side of her few knew about when A Raisin in the Sun hit Broadway: Hansberry’s lesbian self. Read More
Did Gertrude Stein predict the Internet back in 1934? Read More
One-hundred pages into Divining Divas: 100 Gay Men on Their Muses, I stopped thinking of it as a book and...
We’ve all had to deal with the nonsense of being seen singularly as one who acts on behalf of a...
In this week’s Poetry Spotlight, two poems from Michael Montlack’s new book Cool Limbo (NYQ Books)....
Well I’ll be a poet. What could be more foolish and obscure. I became a lesbian. From “An American Poem”...
