At its best, Kirstin Valdez Quade's new collection of stories, Night at the Fiestas, sidesteps cliché but keeps the grandeur of her setting by transposing it to her characters—people big as myth, opaque as Scripture Read More
It is easy to assume that My Avant-Garde Education: A Memoir is Bernard Cooper’s autobiography through art. He is after all a critic, artist and educator. While not untrue, it is not the whole story. Read More
A Stranger’s Mirror demonstrates Hacker’s continued formal mastery; she effortlessly spins one sonnet into two, then three, then seven, leaving readers always breathless for more. Read More
"The book’s central thesis is that our modern-day cult of celebrity, in the Kardashian sense of unaccomplished people famous for being famous, had its beginnings in Wilde’s American tour." Read More
"Now a published biographer, I fully understand the perils of the enterprise. So much can (and usually does) go wrong. Indeed, I believe that most biographies are doomed, from jump street, by a mismatch between author and subject." Read More
In Fairyland: A Memoir of My Father, Alysia Abbott shares her story of growing up as the daughter of writer and editor Steve Abbott, a leading gay cultural critic and important voice in the New Narrative movement.
Abbott sat down with Lambda Literary to talk about her father, the impact of HIV/AIDS on her life, and the experience of crafting her memoir. Read More
Fairyland: A Memoir of My Father (W.W. Norton & Company) by Alysia Abbott manages to pick up the nearly moribund genre of the AIDS memoir, give it a good dusting off, and then send it back out into the world with something like a fighting chance. Read More
[,,.] André Aciman’s greatest accomplishment with his latest novel: the crafting of a thoroughly inclusive love letter to those who have ever felt excluded. Read More
