Plume Archives

Blacklight: J. Aaron Sanders’ ‘Speakers of the Dead’ Recasts an American Literary Giant as a Crime-Fighting Journalist

February 28, 2016 2 min read

Sanders’ Speakers of the Dead traces the beginnings of Walt Whitman’s evolution into the father of free verse by way of a mystery story Read More

Editor and Writer Helen Eisenbach on Working in LGBT Publishing in the Early 1980s

Donald Weise

Features Interviews

October 21, 2015 10 min read

Editor Helen Eisenbach led one of the most impressive and respected lists of gay and lesbian books ever assembled: Plume, the stalwart paperback imprint of New American Library 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

Remembering Akilah Oliver

Ahimsa Timoteo Bodhrán

Features Remembrances

March 3, 2011 5 min read

A Visionary Queer Black Writer The below letter was written on February 24, 2011, in the evening shortly after hearing...

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

‘Beyond Binary: Genderqueer and Sexually Fluid Speculative Fiction’ edited by Brit Mandelo

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

Blacklight: J. Aaron Sanders’ ‘Speakers of the Dead’ Recasts an American Literary Giant as a Crime-Fighting Journalist

Editor and Writer Helen Eisenbach on Working in LGBT Publishing in the Early 1980s

‘How to Grow Up’ by Michelle Tea

Remembering Akilah Oliver

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