Results for: dead to me
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“We’re a Surviving Sort of Species”: Venita Blackburn on Grief and How We Live With It
“I don’t believe in hope. But I’m also optimistic. I have that kind of ancient Greek philosophy about hope, that it arrests man’s despair. It makes you stuck.”
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Fatimah Asghar’s New Novel Is a Salve for My Reality of Grief
Nothing lasts, though — not our parents, not our homes, not our relationships, not us.
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“The Fake” Is a Funny-Sad-Sexy Novel About the Psychological Damage Scammers Inflict
It’s a book about a scammer, but The Fake isn’t trying to hoodwink the reader.
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“All This Could Be Different” Review: A Novel So Good I Dreaded Finishing It
Whether she’s writing about Gantt charts or economic turmoil or oysters or blue and green or sex or hunger, Sarah Thankam Mathews’ sentences seduce and swathe.
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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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Did Somebody Say Lesbian Sasquatch Horror-Comedy “Bachelor” Parody?
An epistolary lesbian love story, monster horror, final girl thrills, and sharp commentary on reality television and social media collide in this bloody, hilarious, chilling novel.
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Dystopian Commentary Bares Its Teeth and Heart in “I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself”
I’ve been thinking a lot about what it takes to write a responsible dystopia.
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Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya on Writing a Lesbian Horror Protagonist Who Has Been to Therapy
Autostraddle Managing Editor Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya’s debut book — Helen House, a queer horror novelette — comes out October 18.