“When I say it’s comforting I mean it’s comforting in the omg this is so painful and beautiful and I love art and I love being trans and I want to die and aghhafsdghslakjnci sort of way.”

Jeanette Winterson and personal growth, weeding out books and library collections, whether or not copy editing is dead and more.

Non-monosexual books to read, fall books to read, non-fiction gender equality, censorship and more.

“Bad girls” in YA, lack of diversity, an awesome interview with Janet Mock, reconsidering adverbs and more.

Topics include class rage, the crash of EgyptAir 990, the cruise ship industry, elephant abuse at the circus, Justin Bieber, falling in love with everything and more!

Highbrow and lowbrow literature, visualizing characters, an excerpt from “bad Feminist” and more!

The Miseducation of Cameron Post’s removal from a summer reading list, literary books coming out this fall, trigger warnings, marginalizing women’s writing and more.

Eileen Myles poems, reading poetry, topless reading parties, excerpts from An Untamed State and more.

Reading women, reading other humans, what counts as queer writing, library theft and more.

The books of Orange is the New Black, diversity in kids’ books, heroic librarians, subtle ways of convincing those around you to read your favorite childhood novels and more.

Topics include binge-watching TV, wikipedia, Mary Kay, why The Great Gatsby sucks, Freedomland!, ANTM, Hunter S. Thompson, oversharing, lesbian nightlife romances and more!

This week in lit links: book-inspired ice cream, why “women’s stories” aren’t the same as stories about women’s lives, writing gay YA in Russia and more.

This week in lit: bookshelfies, queer superhero power couples, Bi: Notes for a Bisexual Revolution, a pop-culture feminist syllabus and more.

Topics include finding quality queer books, the Pultizers, Maya Angelou, a big week at the Lesbrary, SO MANY EVENTS and what we’ve been reading.

Queer book recommendations, oral histories, poet-prostitute profiles, if Gertrude Stein reviewed beer and more.

Batwoman’s lesbian wedding, queer fiction for Black History Month, Jeanette Winterson on Virginia Woolf and confessions from an analogue-obsessed book sniffer, book cakes and so much more!

In this week’s Liberty Lit: reading a book a day, heroines, books that feature Asian lesbians, bookstore cats and more.

This week in lit: banned books, Vagina, and lots of lesbian storylines.