"[...] Sigmund and Anna Freud were enmeshed in the prejudices of a different world, one in which lesbianism was still thought of as a hysterical illness." Read More
"I had to believe that I, in spite of being a dead end on a genealogy chart, had something to offer the future. This novel is an answer to that." Read More
"[...] what happens to a couple when one person changes so much he or she becomes almost unrecognizable to the other?"
Author Judith Frank talks to Lambda Literary about her new novel, All I Love and Know, exploring relationship dynamics through her characters, and her literary inspirations. Read More
Author Stacey D’Erasmo discusses her new rock & roll inspired novel Wonderland. Read More
Michael Cunningham: On Writing Sex, the Creative Process, and Why New York City is (Not) for Writers
"Eroticism is difficult to write about, I think, because everybody’s sense of the erotic is so personal, and so private. What’s hot to me might very well be repellent to you, and vice versa." Read More
"When it came to taking care of my crazy mom, I didn’t know exactly what I was getting into, but I knew who she was—so I had a pretty good idea of how intense it might get." Read More
"... I was talking it over with a friend who asked what I thought I would look like pregnant. Without thinking, I answered, 'like a pregnant Tintin,' and drew her a sketch of the boy reporter with hair flip, knee britches and beach ball under his sweater. For me, this image represented a best-case scenario for how I might embody pregnancy." Read More
"I just feel that it is my human duty to talk about these terrible things that are happening to people. If I just talked at my university and gave talks in Europe, the Caribbean, and Africa, and collected my paycheck, I would just be a rag dog moving through my life. I would not be caring about other human beings. I refuse to live in that way." Read More
"Definitely the set of gay men who are now under 30 are distinctly different from those of us who are older. Many of the young people I've met who were born in the 90s don't, for instance, give a damn about being gay. For some of them, it's really almost a non-issue, and they don't care."
Writer Choire Sicha spoke with Lambda Literary about his new book, A Very Recent History, the Michael Bloomberg years, and capturing contemporary gay life in New York City. Read More
"I think humanity and empathy are the real watchwords of fiction. I see very little of that in contemporary writing. I see a lot of detachment from the characters. I see a lot of irony. I see a lot of design and distancing."
Allan Gurganus recently spoke with Lambda Literary Review about writing his latest book Local Souls, the new South, and the unquantifiable importance of empathy. Read More
