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Things I Read That I Love #346: Bama Rush, Celebrity Memoirs, Laptop Boyfriends, Leaving LA and More

An elite rescue squad in the Great Smokey Mountains, the museum at the Pennhurst Asylum, a liberal journalist gets hired…

Riese

Jan 17, 2026

A glass of beer sits on top of a stack of books. A hand is pouring a beer bottle into the beer glass.

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Rainbow Reading: I’m a Book-at-the-Bar Kind of Nerd

Yashwina is back for another round of Rainbow Reading, rounding up all the latest LGBTQ+ literature news and happenings.

Yashwina

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Apr 7, 2022

Little Foxes Took Up Matches by Katya Kazbek

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“Little Foxes Took Up Matches” Stayed With Me Long After I Finished Reading

The book invites readers to fall in love with a child falling in love with himself and his friends and his own power and his own transformative potential amidst a…

Abbie Jones

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Apr 5, 2022

Vagabonds! a novel by Eloghosa Osunde

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Queer Naija Lit: “Vagabonds!” by Eloghosa Osunde Names the Things People Would Rather Look Away From

Welcome to Queer Naija Lit, a new series that analyzes and celebrates queer Nigerian literature. First up: a review of the new novel “Vagabonds!” by Eloghosa Osunde.

Chinelo Anyadiegwu

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Apr 5, 2022

The books We Do What We Do In The Dark by Michelle Hurt; The Hurting Kind by Ada Limón; Spell Heaven by Toni Mirosevich; You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty by Akwaeke Emezi; The Final Strife by Saara El-Arifi; X by Davey Davis; Content Warning: Everything by Akwaeke Emezi; and This Time for Me: A Memoir by Alexandra Billings

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80 Queer and Feminist Books Coming Out Spring 2022

The weather is getting warmer and the LGBTQ+ books are only getting hotter! Queer book lovers, get ready we have all your spring blanket reading needs covered.

Casey

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Mar 31, 2022

Photo 1: Time Regime by Jhani Randhawa. Photo 2: The author Jhani Randhawa, a gender non-specific person with light brown skin wearing a black net on their head

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A Conversation With Jhani Randhawa About Their Poetry Collection “Time Regime”

In this creative nonfiction+artist interview chimera, Almah LaVon Rice reviews the poetry collection Time Regime and wanders its estuaries with author Jhani Randhawa.

Almah LaVon Rice

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Mar 31, 2022

An illustration showing a shapeless yellow and pink cloud in the background with a pair of lips in an expression of agony and hands in a similar expression beside them.

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Making it Work: A Queer Author Screams into the Wind

I was a couple of months into transition, and re-examining my relationship with seemingly everything I’d taken for granted until then.

Nyri A. Bakkalian

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Mar 28, 2022

The book cover of Fiona and Jane by Jean Chen Ho

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Jean Chen Ho on “Fiona and Jane,” the Eros of Friendship, and Finding Your Fiction Community

“When I was writing these women and their mothers, I wanted to show that these are individuals.”

Em Win

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Mar 28, 2022

A stack of books with stars bursting out of it

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Rainbow Reading: It’s Queer Lit Awards Season!

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya guest hosts Rainbow Reading this week, highlighting new LGBTQ+ book releases, events, book sales, and more!

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya

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Mar 24, 2022

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What Hot Queer Book Published This Summer Should You Read?

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Gabrielle Korn

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Benedict Nguyễn Finds Performance On the Page

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Jennifer Beals Is Letting You Into Her Massive ‘The L Word’ Archive

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The Greatest Women Filmmakers Are Mad for a Reason

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Bob the Drag Queen’s New Novel ‘Harriet Tubman: Live in Concert’ Is More Than a Joke

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