Writers Vivek Shraya and Elisha Lim Talk Craft, Race, Identity, and Getting Compensated for Your Work Theodore Kerr Interviews March 21, 2015
Edgar Gomez’s Intricate and Emotive Memoir, High-Risk Homosexual Matthew Caprioli Reviews March 28, 2022 4 min readPublishers tend to market gay memoirs as campy, joyful, and frivolous or serious, profound, and brooding. High-Risk Homosexual, the debut...
The Creative Brilliance of Louise Fitzhugh: On Sometimes You Have to Lie by Leslie Brody Sophie Strohmeier Reviews November 22, 2021 9 min readLouise Fitzhugh, the charismatic lesbian author of Harriet the Spy, now has a biography— Sometimes You Have to Lie by Leslie Brody. Read More
“He fit perfectly on me, belly to belly”: Krys Malcolm Belc’s The Natural Mother of the Child Jo Unruh Reviews July 6, 2021 4 min read“Instead of mother, I say gestational parent, but the phrase often confuses people.” Krys Malcolm Belc’s The Natural Mother of...
May We Present… Hari Ziyad’s Black Boy Out of Time Willem Finn Harling Interviews February 28, 2021 9 min readWelcome to May We Present…, a new column from Lambda Literary that highlights authors with recent or forthcoming publications. Our...
Lot Six is an Exploration of What it Means to Create Giancarlo Latta Reviews November 16, 2020 3 min read“In some way, exile was my native state,” David Adjmi writes early in Lot Six, explaining somewhat playfully that “Adjmi”...
Born to Be Public is a Thoughtful Comedic Memoir Alexander Carrigan Reviews September 23, 2020 2 min readAs the new decade opens and millennials begin to enter their 30s, it is interesting to see how this generation,...
The Fixed Stars Unpacks the Complexities of Romantic Desire Anne Charles Reviews August 11, 2020 3 min readMolly Wizenberg’s third memoir The Fixed Stars contains many narratives. It is the story of a young woman’s childhood in...
Meredith Talusan Artfully Navigates the Complexities of Identity in Her Debut Memoir Fairest Theodore Pavlich Reviews June 5, 2020 3 min readYou could fill a shelf with the memoirs by trans writers that have been published; a very small, narrow shelf....
For Gay Parents, the Familial and the Political are Inextricably Linked Ken Harvey Nonfiction May 28, 2020 3 min readThere’s a brief section in Richie Jackson’s Gay Like Me: A Father Writes to His Son (Harper) that moved me...
Dean Kostos on Stopping Mental Health Stigma Larissa Shmailo Interviews March 24, 2020 9 min readDean Kostos, poet and educator, anthologist and curator of Greek and Greek-American poetry, editor of the the self-knowing Mama’s Boy. Dean’s...