Bio/Memoir Archives

April 4, 2015 5 min read

It is easy to assume that My Avant-Garde Education: A Memoir is Bernard Cooper’s autobiography through art. He is after all a critic, artist and educator. While not untrue, it is not the whole story. Read More

‘I Left It on the Mountain’ by Kevin Sessums

Ken Harvey

Bio/Memoir Reviews

March 26, 2015 4 min read

I Left It On the Mountain is a spiritual page-turner. Read More

‘The Autumn Balloon’ by Kenny Porpora

John Bavoso

Bio/Memoir Reviews

February 21, 2015 2 min read

Porpora deploys a deft hand and straightforward tone that lifts what could have easily been a maudlin, self-pitying—or, in the opposite direction, self-congratulatory—narrative into a memoir that should be moved to the top of everyone’s to-read list immediately. Read More

‘Nights at Rizzoli’ by Felice Picano

Kevin Brannon

Bio/Memoir Reviews

February 19, 2015 4 min read

The palimpsest of revolution and cosmopolitanism that overlays Picano’s recollections is of course utterly appropriate to the post-Stonewall years he describes Read More

‘How to Grow Up’ by Michelle Tea

Sara Rauch

Bio/Memoir Reviews

January 31, 2015 2 min read

For all of us late-to-the-party adults, for all of us stumbling around wondering how in fact to actually do this thing called adulthood, How to Grow Up is the book we’ve been waiting for Read More

‘Wagstaff: Before and After Mapplethorpe: A Biography’ by Philip Gefter

John Bavoso

Bio/Memoir Reviews

January 18, 2015 2 min read

Wagstaff: Before and After Mapplethorpe: A Biography is a book-length argument for Wagstaff’s importance in the world of American art. Read More

‘Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh’ by John Lahr

Ken Harvey

Bio/Memoir Reviews

January 11, 2015 4 min read

Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh is first and foremost a perceptive and edifying look at Williams’ life. Read More

‘The Prince of Los Cocuyos’ by Richard Blanco

Adrian Brooks

Bio/Memoir Reviews

January 6, 2015 3 min read

Sly, subversive and as funny as the early work of David Sedaris, it is also a joyful slice of Cuban-American life, as well as a poetic, profound and profoundly beautiful coming-of-age story of a boy raised in Florida in the '70s and '80s. Read More

Daisy Hernández on Writing a Memoir, Bisexuality, and “The Kiss of Death”

Julie R. Enszer

Interviews

December 7, 2014 8 min read

"I was in my mid-twenties, dating women, realizing I was bisexual and feeling like I didn’t have a road map. Writing about my own life was my attempt to answer the questions I had." Read More

‘Under This Beautiful Dome: A Senator, A Journalist, and the Politics of Gay Love in America’ by Terry Mutchler

Courtney Gillette

Bio/Memoir Reviews

November 30, 2014 4 min read

"Mutchler has created a searing portrait of love in the face of death, as well as the corrosive power of secrecy." 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

Gay Erotica: Alive and Throbbing

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

‘My Avant-Garde Education: A Memoir’ by Bernard Cooper

‘I Left It on the Mountain’ by Kevin Sessums

‘The Autumn Balloon’ by Kenny Porpora

‘Nights at Rizzoli’ by Felice Picano

‘How to Grow Up’ by Michelle Tea

‘Wagstaff: Before and After Mapplethorpe: A Biography’ by Philip Gefter

‘Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh’ by John Lahr

‘The Prince of Los Cocuyos’ by Richard Blanco

Daisy Hernández on Writing a Memoir, Bisexuality, and “The Kiss of Death”

‘Under This Beautiful Dome: A Senator, A Journalist, and the Politics of Gay Love in America’ by Terry Mutchler

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