Your novel has been self-published. It’s already won several indie awards. You tread new ground as a transgender author writing...
Seventeen-year-old high school student Jake Powell is spending the summer at the prestigious Columbia School of Journalism. He’s the son...
Acclaimed actor Ben Gazzara died two years ago this month. Magnus Books editor Don Weise recalls working with Gazzara on...
A really good biography is a gateway drug that sends readers immediately in search of more works on and by...
John Stewart Wynne’s The Red Shoes, set in contemporary New York City, is a beautifully dark queer re-visioning of the Hans Christian Anderson fairy tale of the same title. Read More
An unfiltered Gore Vidal on sex, James Baldwin, Eleanor Roosevelt, and his problem with gay novelists. Read More
"I have mixed feelings about the place—it can be incredibly beautiful and incredibly ugly—and that duality fascinates me."
Author Mario López-Cordero spoke with Lambda Literary about writing his Fire Island based novel, Monarch Season, turning the standard gay "beach-read" on its head, and the Fire Island social scene. Read More
Herbert Huncke, heretofore a footnote in biographies of the Beats, has long deserved his own biography, and in American Hipster...
Like many beach-themed novels in which a get-away is providing a much-needed escape from real lives, the intoxicating allure of hedonism and all-things illicit are the driving forces for many of the characters we meet in Monarch Season. Read More
"I think debates over what makes a book great are largely among writers and people who teach literature. The rest of us I don’t think really care. I’d say we’re more interested in whether we connect with a book..."
Publisher Don Weise took some time to talk with the Lambda Literary about his publishing imprint, Magnus Books, the future of LGBT publishing, and what characteristics make a book “great.” Read More
