Results for: book
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Holigay Gift Guide: What To Buy for Book Lovers (Other Than Books)
If it’s too much pressure to pick out a book for your literary pal, consider a creative display shelf, a customizable book planter, pressed flower bookmarks, and other presents that are bookish but not books!
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75 of the Best Queer Books of 2021
It was a banner year for queer horror! Plus, fantasy, historical fiction, memoir, nonfiction, YA, middle grade, poetry picks — and so much more!
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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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Quiz: Which Wintery Queer Book Should You Read This Holigay Season?
Whether or not you love the winter holiday season, Autostraddle’s resident lesbrarian has got some great reads for you this December! Just take this quiz and I will match you with an amazing queer book.
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‘We Are the Baby-Sitters Club’ Succeeds in Both Praising and Critiquing the Books of Our Childhoods
No topic is off limits in this guide about the young adult book series that shaped the way so many of us interacted with our worlds as children, and the way some of us still interact with our worlds today.
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6 Queer Authors on What It’s Like to Launch Their Books in a Pandemic
If you’re looking to escape reality for a little while, look no further than this year’s absolute bumper crop of queer novels. As late spring and summer literary events are postponed and cancelled, writers are looking for ways to connect virtually with readers and the publishing community – and finding ways to keep their creativity flowing in a difficult time.
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Read A F*cking Book Club: Octavia Butler’s “Parable of the Sower”
Come get dystopian and read “Parable of the Sower” with us!
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Read a F*cking Book Club: Octavia Butler’s “Parable of the Sower” Offers Persistence, Painstaking Reality
We finished reading “Parable of the Sower” by Octavia Butler. At its core, the book is about embracing truth and change, which is especially true now — when our world seems much closer to Butler’s science fiction. We’d love for you to talk to us about it!
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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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Jen Winstons’ Greedy Reminds You To Remember The “And”
“I learned to accept that I contain multitudes, and neither my sexual orientation nor gender identity are exempt from my multifaceted nature.”
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Hurts So Good Reveals That Masochism Is Everywhere
Hurts So Good showcases pain experts of all types for a more holistic understanding of why and how we use pain for pleasure.
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Sophie Santos’ Memoir Takes Us On Her Queer Path To The Lesbian Agenda
No one’s life is split into two simple chapters. Santos lets all her former eras live right next to each other in the mirror.
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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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Check Out the A+ Community Bookshelf!
We bring you for the first time the first time the A+ Community Bookshelf: a crowdsourced project where A+ members can share the LGBTQ book recs that they want the rest of the A+ community to know about.
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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.