"...I realized there wasn’t any point in me trying to be the new Henry James, Marcel Proust or William Faulkner. Living in California, I think, helped this. California is like the home of failure, I suppose. Not only failure, but contingency, accidents and things falling apart..."
Novelist and critic Kevin Killian took some time to talk with Lambda about his new novel, Spreadeagle, Kylie Minogue, and writing inspired Amazon.com reviews. Read More
"But most people just hate discomfort and uncertainty, and will go to all lengths to avoid it, even in the art they engage. That kind of person will find The Vicious Red Relic,Love too jumpy, heady, and heavy. Maybe too unresolved. I think the book speaks to people who are already very courageous."
Author Anna Joy Springer took some time to talk with Lambda about her latest novel, The Vicious Red Relic, Love, her work as a professor, domestic violence within lesbian communities, and forgiveness. Read More
“I love writing sex. And I love talking sex. A lot of writers feel stymied or scared of writing sex...
“…gays only make up about 3% of the population so we spend our whole lives ‘translating’ straight movies, books, ballets...
I first met Ellis Avery following the paperback publication of her award-winning novel, The Teahouse Fire (Riverhead Books, 2006). Her...
"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
In Man, Oh Man, Writing M/M for Cash and Kinks, Josh Lanyon gives a master class in romance writing for writers wanting to break into the M/M romance market. There is no better guide than Lanyon to writing good romance fiction or simply good fiction, period. Read More
“...I don’t want to try and boil down the book, but I just think there’s a whole kind of crazy spectrum of the way that men feel about each other and interact with each other that doesn’t often get described”
The Art of Fielding, Chad Harbach’s bestselling literary jock novel—named one of the NY Times’ “10 Best in 2011”— astutely maps the complicated and intense relationships of a set of baseball players at a fictional college campus.
Lambda Literary ambushes Harbach with questions on his novel’s tone, as ripe with homoeroticism as any locker room. And the author gamely replies.
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Nikky Finney is an award-winning, southern-born poet, whose critically acclaimed work is imbued with a distinct sense of lyricism and recurring themes of both social justice and communal history.
She was recently awarded the 2011 National Book Award for her latest collection Head Off & Split. Finney took some time to talk with Lambda Literary Review about her now famous National Book Award speech, shoe shopping with Condoleezza Rice, and the dividing line between art and rhetoric.
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'I basically wanted to do a zine that reflected what I was feeling at the time. With Fag School, I hadn’t really seen a zine or at least a personal gay zine that dealt with the difficult subject of gay sex with both humor and frank talk. It covered some real issues. Race, the condom code..." Read More
