Interviews Archives

February 9, 2015 7 min read

"'Death and Two Maidens' was my response to my research on African-descended Victorians. I wanted to write a penny dreadful story that went beyond the usual (pale-skinned) cast." Read More

Danez Smith: On His New Poetry Collection, Writing About Gay Sex, and the Power of Blackness

Candice Iloh

Features Interviews

January 26, 2015 6 min read

"Today, being black and gay is an armor, a gospel I love dearly. I love black queers. I love who and how we are. It’s taught me a lot of love; how it can surprise you with its leaps and failures." Read More

Andrew Durbin: On His New Book ‘Mature Themes,’ the Power and Uselessness of Love, and the Joys of the Perfect Pop Song

Theodore Kerr

Interviews

January 14, 2015 10 min read

"My work is essayistic, novelistic, speculative, theoretical, and so on because poetry allows you to be all these things at once." Read More

Shelly Oria: On Her New Collection ‘New York 1, Tel Aviv 0,’ Her Favorite Queer Writers, and the Power of Literature

Karen Schechner

Features Interviews

January 3, 2015 5 min read

"I’ve always thought that one of the biggest gifts literature offers us is the ability to hang out in another person’s mind. I mean, it’s a basic human fantasy, isn’t it?" Read More

Biographer James Gavin on Peggy Lee: Diva and Gay Icon

Jamie Brickhouse

Features Interviews

December 14, 2014 14 min read

"Even though she mythologized herself to an extravagant degree and made up a lot of stuff, I don’t think she ever sang an untrue word or feeling. I don’t know a more honest singer than Peggy Lee." Read More

Tommaso Speretta on His New Book ‘REBELS REBEL: AIDS, Art, and Activism in New York 1979-1989’

Theodore Kerr

Art Interviews

November 25, 2014 13 min read

"I think that we’re currently witnessing a reborn interest in the work done by activist artists and artists in protest, especially in relation to AIDS." Read More

MB Caschetta: On Her New Novel ‘Miracle Girls,’ Being an Early Member of ACT UP, and Writing as Redemption

Sally Bellerose

Interviews

November 16, 2014 8 min read

"[...] it does always take me aback for a second when someone points out the darkness of my writing. To me, this novel has so much light and redemption in it." Read More

Philip Rappaport on Introducing Quintessential LGBT Books to a New Generation of Readers

Tom Cardamone

Features

November 6, 2014 11 min read

"I joined Open Road to among other things help build out the catalog of LGBT books." Read More

Christopher Rice: On His New Novel ‘The Vines,’ the Gay Appeal of the Horror Genre, and Writing Supernatural Thrillers

Vince Liaguno

Interviews

October 30, 2014 11 min read

"Ultimately, a book's structure is going to determine the writing process, not its genre." Read More

In Conversation: Christopher Gaskins and Robert Siek

Edit Team

Features Interviews

October 28, 2014 10 min read

In celebration of the one-year anniversary of the release of each of their first books of poetry, Christopher Gaskins and Robert Siek have a discussion about their collections, focusing on the themes and styles in their work. 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

‘Beyond Binary: Genderqueer and Sexually Fluid Speculative Fiction’ edited by Brit Mandelo

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

Author Craig Gidney on Illuminating Race and Diversity in Speculative Fiction

Danez Smith: On His New Poetry Collection, Writing About Gay Sex, and the Power of Blackness

Andrew Durbin: On His New Book ‘Mature Themes,’ the Power and Uselessness of Love, and the Joys of the Perfect Pop Song

Shelly Oria: On Her New Collection ‘New York 1, Tel Aviv 0,’ Her Favorite Queer Writers, and the Power of Literature

Biographer James Gavin on Peggy Lee: Diva and Gay Icon

MB Caschetta: On Her New Novel ‘Miracle Girls,’ Being an Early Member of ACT UP, and Writing as Redemption

Philip Rappaport on Introducing Quintessential LGBT Books to a New Generation of Readers

Christopher Rice: On His New Novel ‘The Vines,’ the Gay Appeal of the Horror Genre, and Writing Supernatural Thrillers

In Conversation: Christopher Gaskins and Robert Siek

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