Results for: no fucks to give
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In ‘We Were the Universe’, Grief and Motherhood Are Horny
We Were the Universe eschews the conventional grief novel in its horniness, the conventional motherhood novel in its queerness, and even the conventional sex novel in its emphasis on fantasy over reality.
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“Brainwyrms” Is the Perfect Twisted Novel for Clive Barker Queers
There’s an undeniable playfulness in the way Alison Rumfitt presents sex, kink, and violence, but there’s also a seething rage underneath it all.
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“Your Driver Is Waiting” Review: I’m Obsessed With the Swole Bisexual Narrator of This Rip-Roaring Novel
Some readers may be tempted to label Your Driver Is Waiting as satire, but that’s not my reading at all.
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Rather Than a Coming Out Story, “Body Grammar” Is About Queer Characters Coming Into Themselves
Jules Ohman paints the harsh, sharp-angled modeling industry with soft, tender prose and tells many queer narratives at once in the novel.
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In the Sexy and Smart New Novel “Sirens & Muses,” the Art World Is Hell
The chaotic art school tale is a confident debut from Antonia Angress.
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“Detransition, Baby” Is a Book For Trans Women — The Rest of You Are Lucky to Read It
“The truth is I don’t know how to review Detransition, Baby. Torrey was too successful in what she set out to accomplish. If trans women have been and remain her primary audience then I, a trans woman, don’t know what to say from a place of supposed objectivity. The fact that this is not a PDF free on her website but a hardcover book garnering an immense amount of buzz fills me with a joy I can explain and a terror I cannot.”
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Stray City Is a Love Story about Friendship, Portland, and Chelsey Johnson’s Queer Community
If I could have willed a book into existence, that book would be Stray City — so I talked to Chelsey Johnson about her debut novel and what it’s like to render queer community so intimately for the public.
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Read a F*cking Book: Eileen Myles’ “Chelsea Girls” is Back, Better Than Ever
It’s the kind of book that takes hold of you. Chelsea Girls is like sitting in someone else’s heart and mind as they go back through an entire lifetime of becoming who they are in that moment, and those are the kinds of moments you can’t just walk into and out of at random.
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Read a F*cking Canadian Book, Eh: Ann-Marie MacDonald’s “Fall On Your Knees”
What if the nerdy bookstore owner from “Better Than Chocolate” wrote a book of her own? Oh, wait, she DID!