The Violet Quill Archives

April 10, 2013 46 min read

Authors Edmund White, Felice Picano, and Andrew Holleran reflect on their years together as the Violet Quill and publishing today, AIDS literature, Queer Theory, and writing gay characters. Read More

Edmund White: Invention, Imagination, and Memory

Frank Pizzoli

Features

March 19, 2012 13 min read

“…gays only make up about 3% of the population so we spend our whole lives ‘translating’ straight movies, books, ballets...

Literary Mixtape: ‘Dancer from the Dance’–Malone’s Imaginary Disco Set

William Johnson

Features

January 19, 2012 2 min read

The folks at Flavorwire have an ingenious recurring column in which they create musical mixtapes for assorted literary characters. Each inspired post is dedicated...

‘True Stories: Portraits from My Past’ by Felice Picano

Thom Nickels

Bio/Memoir Reviews

August 9, 2011 5 min read

It’s easy to forget that there once was a time when there was no gay literature, and when the act...

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

In Conversation with the Violet Quill: Andrew Holleran, Felice Picano, and Edmund White

Edmund White: Invention, Imagination, and Memory

Literary Mixtape: ‘Dancer from the Dance’–Malone’s Imaginary Disco Set

‘True Stories: Portraits from My Past’ by Felice Picano

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