Interview Archives

Judith Katz and Hilary Zaid on Inheritance, Influence, and the State of the 21st Century Lesbian Novel

April 10, 2018 10 min read

"To be a queer writer is to stand in relation to two sometimes overlapping, sometimes diverging traditions [...]" Read More

Chelsey Johnson on Her New Novel ‘Stray City’, Her Musical Influences, and Capturing the 90s

Carter Sickels

Interviews

March 25, 2018 10 min read

"Punk and riot grrrl influenced me hugely, not just musically but politically and aesthetically as well, and my friends too." Read More

Renée Bess: On Using Personal Experience for Inspiration

Nahshon Dion

Interviews

January 17, 2018 7 min read

"My sensitivity to class distinctions doesn’t promote distrust. It makes me introspective about our tendency to deny the existence of these differences and then address the consequences of those differences." Read More

Sonia Guiñansaca: On the Migrant Arts Movement and the Power of Creating Chapbooks

Kay Ulanday Barrett

Interviews

December 28, 2017 12 min read

"Many of the wins for migrant undocumented communities have been as a result of undocumented femme/women/gnc leadership. Don’t believe the hype that it was done by cis straight men." Read More

Farzana Doctor: On Resiliency, Terrorism, and Swingers

Theodore Kerr

Interviews

December 14, 2017 13 min read

"I see human beings as being completely resilient and I am interested in how it is often in odd situations and within strange relationships that we begin to figure out what is going to happen next." Read More

Nicole Sealey: On Being Inspired by the NYC Ball Scene and Writing With Empathy

Christopher Soto

Interviews

December 6, 2017 7 min read

"There’s a big difference between appropriation, embodiment and homage." Read More

James L. Sutter on the Art of Role Playing and Defining His Bisexuality

Gabrielle Harbowy

Interviews

November 21, 2017 12 min read

James Sutter talked to Lambda Literary about developing role playing games at Paizo Publishing and his new writing projects Read More

Tillie Walden on Her New Memoir and Being a Lesbian in the Figure Skating World

Cathy Camper

Interviews

October 8, 2017 5 min read

" I knew of gay ice skaters, men, but no women. And since the book came out, I have gotten floods of emails from, yes, lesbian ice skaters. Turns out we exist, and I couldn’t be happier." Read More

Playwright Kati Schwartz on the Power of Laughing at Her Own Misery

Joan Lipkin

Interviews

October 7, 2017 7 min read

"More often than not, I discover while writing about the shame-inducing events I’ve experienced that the personal inadequacies I have are more universal than I originally realized." Read More

Andrew Durbin on His Novel ‘MacArthur Park’ and the Instability of Utopias

Osman Can Yerebakan

Interviews

October 4, 2017 6 min read

"The cults and intentional communities with a strong utopian streak often find that the effort leads to a highly unstable, virtually impossible way of living [...]" Read More

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

How The Dead Teach the Living: A Dying Reader’s Guide

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

Judith Katz and Hilary Zaid on Inheritance, Influence, and the State of the 21st Century Lesbian Novel

Chelsey Johnson on Her New Novel ‘Stray City’, Her Musical Influences, and Capturing the 90s

Renée Bess: On Using Personal Experience for Inspiration

Sonia Guiñansaca: On the Migrant Arts Movement and the Power of Creating Chapbooks

Farzana Doctor: On Resiliency, Terrorism, and Swingers

Nicole Sealey: On Being Inspired by the NYC Ball Scene and Writing With Empathy

James L. Sutter on the Art of Role Playing and Defining His Bisexuality

Tillie Walden on Her New Memoir and Being a Lesbian in the Figure Skating World

Playwright Kati Schwartz on the Power of Laughing at Her Own Misery

Andrew Durbin on His Novel ‘MacArthur Park’ and the Instability of Utopias

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