"[...]if you want to develop a real relationship in the city, I think it's important to be in the path of that person, regularly, as a matter of course. You have to share a place—a neighborhood, or work or school or a commute or a coffee shop or a bar or scene. Something so the artifice of dating doesn't overwhelm the function."
This month’s “Banal and Profane” column comes to us from writer Tommy Pico.
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"[...] it's a good time to sign a lease, because I've got a full time day job right now, and so my income looks real. Book royalties never look real, even when they are. My goal is to die in this apartment, which I know might sound depressing if you live somewhere else, but in New York this is an expression of hope."
This month’s “Banal and Profane” comes to us from writer and comedienne Kelli Dunham.
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"...I woke up with the same thought I always wake up with: This is the week I’ll get more writing done."
“The Banal and the Profane” is a monthly Lambda Literary column in which we lift the veil on both the writerly life and the publishing industry.
This month’s “Banal and Profane” column comes to us from book publicist and author Martin Wilson. Read More
"Sometimes I fantasize about living a 'straight' gay life: monogamous relationship, marriage, pairing my dog with that of a lover’s, buying a home, considering adoption. No more credit cards. No more partying. No more anonymous sex. But the thought is fleeting [...]"
This month’s “Banal and Profane” column comes to us from writer Christopher Stoddard.
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"I should be writing, but there are distractions. Not just the usual ones, such as Netflix and Facebook. Today’s distractions are bigger than that, and so much harder to push away. Relationship Drama."
“The Banal and the Profane” is a monthly Lambda Literary column in which we lift the veil on both the writerly life and the publishing industry. In each installment, we ask a different LGBT writer, or LGBT person of interest in the book industry, to guide us through a week in their lives.
This month’s “Banal and Profane” column comes to us from writer Mia McKenzie. Read More
"When it comes to sex I love fingertips in my mouth. I can’t help it. I love Joey’s fingers in my mouth. Four fingers for every letter of the word amen."
“The Banal and the Profane” is a monthly Lambda Literary column in which we lift the veil on both the writerly life and the publishing industry. In each installment, we ask a different LGBT writer, or LGBT person of interest in the book industry, to guide us through a week in their lives.
This month’s “Banal and Profane” column comes to us from writer Leon Baham. Read More
"I’m still a tad perplexed about the difference between the banal and the profane, worried that my interpretations are not true enough or different enough from each other. They seem so artistically linked in some way, and I like that. "
“The Banal and the Profane” is a monthly Lambda Literary column in which we lift the veil on both the writerly life and the publishing industry. In each installment, we ask a different LGBT writer, or LGBT person of interest in the book industry, to guide us through a week in their lives.
This month’s “Banal and Profane” column comes to us from poet Maureen Seaton. Read More
"I have no publicist or Big 6 publishing deal, but still I am here. I’ve got this notion that I can make the work do the work for me, that people love an underdog and I won’t absolutely need these things to succeed—of course, I’m sometimes susceptible to romantic notions."
“The Banal and the Profane” is a monthly Lambda Literary column in which we lift the veil on both the writerly life and the publishing industry. In each installment, we ask a different LGBT writer, or LGBT person of interest in the book industry, to guide us through a week in their lives.
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"..had a dream that I was in an elevator with a stranger, falling to the ground. I wanted to hold hands with the stranger before we died, but I could tell he didn't want to, so I just sort of slyly held onto the hem of his jacket."
“The Banal and the Profane” is a monthly Lambda Literary column in which we lift the veil on both the writerly life and the publishing industry. In each installment, we ask a different LGBT writer, or LGBT person of interest in the book industry, to guide us through a week in their lives.
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"...I freely tell you, I'm a dyke. And tomorrow is my birthday! So maybe the glow from birthdays is already glowing. And my hair still looks good. And I'm going to work on another story in a three-story series no one wants to publish."
“The Banal and the Profane” is a monthly Lambda Literary column in which we ask a different LGBT writer, or LGBT person of interest in the book industry, to guide us through a week in their lives. This month’s “Banal and Profane” column comes to us from Sarah Sarai. Read More
