Millions of Syrian refugees have fled their homeland due to decades of civil war. While most settle in Turkey, Greece,...
Perhaps the greatest strength of the book is Sycamore's ability to capture queer adolescence and immortalize that reality onto the page without sanitizing the struggles. Read More
Clive Davis made headlines when his doorstop of a biography, The Soundtrack of My Life (Simon and Schuster), recently filled...
Based solely on its title, I Await the Devil’s Coming (Melville House Publishing) sounds like a canonical text for Satanists. In reality, it’s the fiercely feminist, wickedly witty, and decidedly deranged glimpse into the life and thoughts of a transgressive young woman growing up unhappily in the Midwest at the beginning of the 20th century. Read More
Families don’t just happen. Gay, straight, single or coupled, nobody could possibly find it easy to build (and maintain) a...
Blake Bailey has dissected complex, self-destructive literary lives in his biographies of Richard Yates and John Cheever, and Farther and Wilder will no doubt add to his reputation as the premiere chronicler of tormented American writers. Read More
QTPOC Comics by Nia King – Oakland Artist, Activist and Anarchist Growing up as a Queer, Black/Lebanese/Jewish woman, King is...
In her third creative non-fiction book Body Geographic, creative writing professor Barrie Jean Borich traces the development of her identity as an American, a Midwesterner, a woman, a lesbian, and a writer. Read More
Nationally, Portland, Oregon is known for being a rainy green city of bicyclists, 20-something hipsters, and enough log-jammed trends from...
Read Kate Bornstein's excerpt from Lambda’s Literary’s 25th anniversary anthology, 25 for 25, an E-book featuring some of the community’s leading LGBT authors. Read More
