Sara Rauch Archives

April 17, 2018 8 min read

"Porn gave me material to explore. I didn’t need to go out and research something. I was living it. The research was my life." Read More

‘Sodom Road Exit’ by Amber Dawn

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Reviews

March 11, 2018 3 min read

Starla Martin, the sardonic narrator of Amber Dawn’s second novel, Sodom Road Exit, is a twenty-something college dropout with a penchant for pricey art, designer clothes, and one-night stands. Read More

‘Abandon Me’ by Melissa Febos

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Bio/Memoir Reviews

February 5, 2017 3 min read

Abandon Me is a fierce exploration of love and obsession Read More

‘The Kissing Booth Girl and Other Stories’ by A.C. Wise

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Reviews Speculative Fiction

November 5, 2016 2 min read

The Kissing Booth Girl and Other Stories is achingly smart, sad, and weird in equal measure Read More

‘Vow of Celibacy’ by Erin Judge

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Fiction Reviews

September 6, 2016 2 min read

Vow of Celibacy, stand-up comedian Erin Judges dishy debut novel, plunges the reader directly into the world of Natalie—bisexual, plus-sized fashion maven, and undertaker of the titular vow. Read More

‘Black Wave’ by Michelle Tea

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Fiction Reviews

August 28, 2016 2 min read

Black Wave is about queer subculture and the importance of storytelling, and it’s an existential meditation on the consequences of choice. Read More

‘The Cosmopolitans’ by Sarah Schulman

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Fiction Reviews

April 14, 2016 2 min read

Sarah Schulman has given us a finely tuned, clever, and remarkably contemporary historical novel Read More

‘Vienna’ by William S. Kirby

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Mystery Reviews

October 18, 2015 2 min read

Vienna brings together the crime and intelligence of a Holmes story but with a twist: “Sherlock” and “Watson” appear as women—Vienna and Justine, respectively—and to further twist the usual, the unlikely duo are lovers Read More

‘Love Not Given Lightly: Profiles from the Edge of Sex’ by Tina Horn

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Nonfiction Reviews

September 3, 2015 2 min read

Love Not Given Lightly is compelling and oh-so-readable. Whether you know of and partake of this world or not, Horn’s portraits are deeply moving in their tender look at human sexuality and connection. Read More

Author Quintan Ana Wikswo on the Limitations and Power of Labels

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Features Interviews

August 12, 2015 19 min read

"Primarily, I wanted to see if I could write a book in which issues of love, erotics, desire, and sex could be momentarily liberated from conventional categorizations of gender identity." 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

How The Dead Teach the Living: A Dying Reader’s Guide

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

Christopher Zeischegg on Life as a Porn Star and His New Book ‘Body to Job’

‘Sodom Road Exit’ by Amber Dawn

‘Abandon Me’ by Melissa Febos

‘The Kissing Booth Girl and Other Stories’ by A.C. Wise

‘Vow of Celibacy’ by Erin Judge

‘Black Wave’ by Michelle Tea

‘The Cosmopolitans’ by Sarah Schulman

‘Vienna’ by William S. Kirby

‘Love Not Given Lightly: Profiles from the Edge of Sex’ by Tina Horn

Author Quintan Ana Wikswo on the Limitations and Power of Labels

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