“…Stardom. It’s a greedy goal and it comes with lots of traps of arrogance, but the way I justify it...
"A more recent book that blew my mind was Larry Kramer's The Tragedy Of Today's Gays. The truth hurts, but Larry isn't afraid to tell it. I actually attended the speech at Cooper Union where he read this work in its entirety. I trembled and sobbed in the presence of this man—frail, yet so impassioned. He's one of my heroes and I look forward to The American People, which he's been penning for years. That one I'll definitely read and it's going to be a long, heavy one so I hope to be over my reading slump for that."
The Lambda Literary Awards are this upcoming Monday June 4th, in New York City and the incomparable drag-superstar Lady Bunny is DJing the afterparty. That being said, we thought this would be a good opportunity to have a little book chat with the drag star. Read More
"If you stumble upon negative comments concerning your body or your personality, remember that the online universe equalizes every utterance, and that negative or humiliating comments concerning your body or your personality weigh no more than a feather. Imagine the feather blowing away."
Poet, critic, and author Wayne Koestenbaum took some time to talk with Lambda about the process of writing about humiliation, Harpo Marx, and how poetry informs his cultural criticism. Read More
" Whatever happened to our dreams of sexual splendor only bounded by the limitations of imagination? Gay sex is now more about regimentation than experimentation, following the hideous rules rather than creating new possibilities for loving, lusting for and taking care of one another."
Author Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore talks with Lambda about straight white respectability, queer desire, and the "It Gets Better" campaign. Read More
"What I hope The Miseducation of Cameron Post offers to its readers is a nuanced picture of a particular time and place as seen through the eyes of a young woman discovering her sexuality and her voice."
Author Emily M. Danforth sat down to answer a few questions about her new book, The Miseducation of Cameron Post , her thoughts on LGBTQ YA novels, and writing and growing up gay in Miles City, Montana.
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"Everyone’s talking about the death and disappearance of the book as a format and an object. I don’t think that will happen. I think whatever happens, we have to figure out a way to protect our imaginations. Stories and poetry do that."
Famed author Jeanette Winterson talks with Lambda about her new memoir, her writing process, and her thoughts about the queer community. 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
"The tagline for the book is, 'everybody becomes Andy,' and that's something I came almost unwillingly to understand..."
2011 saw the publication of several new biographies about Andy Warhol, but perhaps none with such an unusual voice as Megan Volpert's Sonics in Warholia, from Sibling Rivalry Press. In this interview, Charles Jensen sits down with the author of this distinctive new book to dig into the connections between Warhol and, well, everything. Read More
"... I think homosexuality and fatness are two items that have definitely been infused with intense feelings of disgust, moral feelings of disgust. Religion plays a part in that."
Lynne Gerber is the author of the insightful, surprising new book, Seeking the Straight and Narrow: Weight Loss and Sexual Reorientation in Evangelical America (University of Chicago Press). The book is an astute examination of evangelical programs that have "attempted to contain the excesses associated with fatness and homosexuality. "
Lambda took some time to talk with Gerber about the "sin" of being fat and/or gay, how she conducted the research for her latest book, and the morality of health. Read More
“When fiction is made according to its nature, it should reinforce our sense of the supernatural by grounding it in...
