CC Carlson is a young lawyer on her first job with a prestigious mega-law firm. She’s determined to impress her...
This is no bucolic childhood. Sina Queyras’s Autobiography of Childhood (Coach House Books) is a novel about grief, about anger, about familial obligation and madness and conflict. It is an internal, abstracted construction of family. Read More
Wingshooters is constantly hinting at, without overtly stating—and this is nicely done—the shifting social and cultural mores of rural America in the mid-1970s. 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 do believe in the importance of story, of narrative. I always try to create a sense of urgency; ideally the reader will be pulled along, will want to know what happens next."
Named one of “Ten Titles to Pick Up Now” by O: The Oprah Magazine, Nina Revoyr’s new Lambda nominated novel is at once a breathtakingly beautiful hymn to the American outdoors—and to the bond between grandfather and granddaughter—and at the same time a chilling snapshot of race in this country.
Wingshooters serves as a stark corrective to lazy, cozy assumptions that racism doesn’t exist in the North the way it does in the South. It is also an aching, lonely, sure-handed portrait of small-town lesbian girlhood. Read More
The fundamental pleasure of this fully realized novel, and of all of Carol Anshaw’s work, may well be simply basking in the light-filled explorations of a first class intelligence. Read More
In the opening scene of Marianne Banks’ first novel, Growing Up Delicious (Bella), the protagonist, Jennifer Andersen, admits something we’ve all felt one time or another: “The problem was I looked grown up but felt twelve years old." Read More
Amelia Earhart, America’s beloved and iconic aviatrix, who disappeared over the South Pacific in 1937, remains a mysterious figure in...
in·del·i·ble/inˈdeləbəl/ Adjective: 1. Making marks that cannot be removed. 2. Not able to be forgotten or removed. The Indelible Heart...
While the book begins as a passionate tale from the lush landscape of Paris in the 1920s, livened by entrancing sex scenes and seductive exchanges, the story takes a turn toward the fast-paced—morphing into a plot-driven whodunit... Read More
