National Book Awards Archives

November 21, 2017 2 min read

Poet Sam Sax on community and identity, Susan Sontag's fiction, and more LGBTQ news Read More

2015 National Book Awards: Diverse Shortlists and Winners

Karen Schechner

Features News

November 23, 2015 2 min read

The shortlists alone for fiction, nonfiction, and poetry—all promising and diverse—are something to celebrate Read More

A Bisexual Boxer Biopic, Transgender Sci-Fi, and Other LGBT News

Parrish Turner

News Reviews

November 20, 2015 1 min read

The National Book Awards, Gay theater post-marriage equality, queer comics, and other LGBT news Read More

Eileen Myles Gets Her Due, the Film Adaptation of ‘Dancer From the Dance’, Trans Poetics, and More LGBT News

Parrish Turner

News

September 25, 2015 1 min read

Eileen Myles gets her due, Myles E. Johnson gives us a book for young black queer boys, and more LGBT news Read More

Walt Whitman’s Gay Saloon, Rabih Alameddine’s National Book Award Nomination, and More LGBT News

Alec Johnsson

Features News

October 1, 2014 1 min read

Rabih Alameddine's National Book Award nomination, Alison Bechdel's next graphic novel, and more lgbt news. Read More

Patti Smith’s ‘Just Kids’ Sequel

Paige Cohen

Features News

December 19, 2012 1 min read

Patti Smith is already planning the sequel to her 2010 memoir Just Kids, a New York Times best-seller, Lambda Literary Award finalist, and National Book Award-winner for Nonfiction. Read More

‘Far From The Tree’: NPR Interviews Author Andrew Solomon

Paige Cohen

Features News

November 16, 2012 1 min read

NPR interviews author Andrew Solomon about his recent book Far From The Tree, which “explores what it’s like for parents...

Keeping Up with the Gays of DC and Marvel : New York Comic Con

Paige Cohen

Features News

October 12, 2012 1 min read

Comic book and graphic novel fans are taking to the streets this weekend for New York’s annual Comic Con festival....

Justin Torres is Selected for “5 under 35”

Paige Cohen

Features News

October 5, 2012 2 min read

A congratulations is in order for 2007 Lambda Literary Fellow Justin Torres who has just been announced as an honoree...

Nikky Finney Wins National Book Award for Poetry

William Johnson

Features News

November 17, 2011 1 min read

Lesbian poet Nikky Finney won the 2011 National Book Award for poetry for her collection Head Off & Split. Finney was presented the poetry award on Wednesday, November 16 at the National Book Foundation sponsored ceremony in New York, NY. 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

‘Nothing Pink’ by Mark Hardy

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

A Literary War of The Words, Danez Smith on Writer’s Block, and More LGBTQ News

2015 National Book Awards: Diverse Shortlists and Winners

A Bisexual Boxer Biopic, Transgender Sci-Fi, and Other LGBT News

Eileen Myles Gets Her Due, the Film Adaptation of ‘Dancer From the Dance’, Trans Poetics, and More LGBT News

Walt Whitman’s Gay Saloon, Rabih Alameddine’s National Book Award Nomination, and More LGBT News

Patti Smith’s ‘Just Kids’ Sequel

‘Far From The Tree’: NPR Interviews Author Andrew Solomon

Keeping Up with the Gays of DC and Marvel : New York Comic Con

Justin Torres is Selected for “5 under 35”

Nikky Finney Wins National Book Award for Poetry

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