Results for: book
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Lez Liberty Lit: Queer Books as Hydra
The color-coded bookshelf conversation continues, queer books are unstoppable, queerness in Sally Rooney’s work, and more.
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Lez Liberty Lit: Don’t Read A Book A Week
Reading goals as a personal hell, memes as a new kind of formalism, a dare to not be productive and more.
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Lez Liberty Lit: “Books” Are Still Not A Personality
“Where are the boundaries between story and real life, between consciousness and an idea?” Plus, the petty errors that pull you out of a piece of writing, how books became a lifestyle brand and, one assumes, a personality, and more.
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Lez Liberty Lit: Reading in Front of the Screen Fire
Find out books to read if you like Practical Magic, what it’s like to cook like Frankenstein, where “old book smell” comes from, and more!
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Lez Liberty Lit: Do Not Privatize Libraries
Why is privatizing libraries a thing! Plus, centering voices not just bodies, banned books, stoner novels, nonlinear narratives, and more.
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Lez Liberty Lit: Discipline Is Part of Creation
On writing regularly, an approach for overwhelm, a book of botanical drawings and more.
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Lez Liberty Lit: Liminal Spaces
Queer time and liminal spaces, a library facing possible charges for carrying sex education books, the myth of universality in literature, and more.
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Lez Liberty Lit: Just for the Sake of It
The transformative power of queer breakups, exploring the ongoing trauma of the AIDS crisis, some 2021 faves, and more.
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Lez Liberty Lit: Counterfactual Realities
How memory works, BOOK IT nostalgia, why pleasure should never be guilty and more.
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Lez Liberty Lit: Love Is Renewable
Are you considering NaNoWriMo? Plus, a library from Solange, how literary gatekeepers can elevate Black trans women writers, queer webcomics and more.
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Lez Liberty Lit: The End
Over the decade-ish that I’ve been writing this column, the number of published queer and trans stories has exploded.
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Lez Liberty Lit Is Engineering a Hot Streak
The dark side of the golden trans literary moment, what your emoji use says about how old you are (probably), what a hot streak means for artistic success and more.
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Lez Liberty Lit: Ground Yourself
Creating work while living with chronic pain, a brief grounding exercise, the state of ambiguous loss and more.
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Lez Liberty Lit: A Gaping MAW
A great new horror comic, what to do when things feel scattered, a new Octavia Butler biography, the possibility of wandering in the digital age and more.
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Lez Liberty Lit Has Simply Had Enough of Drowning
How to live in a burning world without losing your mind, read these books in the second half of 2021, why to reconsider air conditioning, uncategorized creative work, a love poem and more.
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Lez Liberty Lit: Time, Faith, Momentum
Phones belong in museums, the magic ingredients for creativity, why work is not the same as identity and more.
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Lez Liberty Lit: Against Prison Book Bans
Limiting access to books in prisons is bad for everyone, what happens when you wreck a library book, the best time to write, and more!
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Lez Liberty Lit: James Baldwin’s Record Collection
James Baldwin’s record collection as a playlist, procrastination and writer’s block and whether or not they’re value neutral and more.
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Lez Liberty Lit: Cultivate Weirdness
Have you been to your re-opened local library yet? Plus, how to write faster, why to get weird, what book publishing stands for and more.
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Lez Liberty Lit: Spontaneous Touch
Rediscovering spontaneous touch through reading, starting something new, the secret feminist history of the Oxford Dictionary and more.