A "Gay Pulp" podcast, the queer themes in Stephen King's It, and more LGBT news... Read More
A really good biography is a gateway drug that sends readers immediately in search of more works on and by...
An unfiltered Gore Vidal on sex, James Baldwin, Eleanor Roosevelt, and his problem with gay novelists. Read More
"One doesn't think of Burns as courageous or engaged--his great intellect and rather supercilious attitude had let him float above everything -- but writing so explicitly about gays, and advocating for them, in 1947 was an act of enormous courage. "
David Margolick took some time to talk with the Lambda Literary Review about his interest in John Horne Burns, the challenges of writing about a person who was often disliked, and learning about twentieth century gay life. Read More
This November, OR Books, will be releasing I Told So: Gore Vidal Talks Politics—writer and radio host Jon Wiener’s exciting...
"Gore Vidal was entertaining but he was also, like Larry Kramer, challenging. He was fearless, fiercely intelligent, and well spoken. I can’t imagine him ever losing an argument or breaking a sweat. But he was homework, and people don’t like homework." Read More
It’s always a loss when the great die. It’s less of a loss when they die leaving so much of themselves behind. Vidal lived life more fully than most people can ever envision. Despite his assertion of his icy bastardliness as a person, his work shines and pivots, sparkles and entrances. Read More
The iconic author Gore Vidal, who was best known for his ground-breaking novels (The City and the Pillar, Myra Breckinridge) and acerbic political essays, died on Tuesday in Los Angeles, California. He was 86.
The cause was complications of pneumonia, according to his nephew Burr Steers. Considered one of the titans of 20th century letters, Vidal, always the gadfly, used his writing to challenge America's "puritanical" sexual and cultural mores and "imperialist foreign policies." Read More
Gore Vidal’s Myra Breckenridge (1968) is my favorite novel, LGBT or otherwise. And Myra is my favorite literary character, LGBT or otherwise. As I typed (already past tense) that first sentence I hesitated for a few reasons. I think Myra would detest being labeled LGBT, and I fear her wrath. And who am I to attempt this playlist portrait of the entity that is Myra Breckenridge.... Read More
