Literature

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Art Has Its Own Power Outside of the Systems That Profit From It

Music is a way for us to tell the truth. To feel our souls inside our bodies. The novel ‘Long…

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Book cover art for "A Desolation Called Peace". Illustration of a figure looking out of a large geometrically paneled window, where a large saturn-like object floats in a dazzling burst of light and red smoke. Text reads "A Desolation Called Peace — Arkady Martine" "A mesmerizing debut... it left me utterly dazzled." — The New York Times Book Review on A Memory Called Empire. The second slide is a selfie of the author, Arkady Martine, blue eyes staring directly at camera, red hair in soft waves around her face.

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EXCLUSIVE: A+ Members, Read a Generous Excerpt of Arkady Martine’s “A Desolation Called Peace” Here!

We’re delighted to be able to share an exclusive EXTENDED excerpt of A Desolation Called Peace in honor of its launch.

Rachel

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Mar 3, 2021

someone with long hair reading in a forest

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Lez Liberty Lit: Let’s Loiter

It’s ok not to remember everything that you read, a new fund for Black creatives, and what is it like to explore childhood horror through the lens of queer adulthood?

Ryan

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Feb 25, 2021

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Surprise Porn and Hospital Parties: The Queer and Trans Pleasure in Marty Fink’s “Forget Burial”

Marty Fink shows how caregiving is activism, disability is sexy and dusty archives are tantalizing in Forget Burial, an essential, highly pleasurable, read.

Anna Lee-Popham

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Feb 24, 2021

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Things I Read That I Love #316: Beach-Ball Buttocks Mimicking The Most Famous Bottom In The World

Topics include a Hollywood con artist, lip-reading, the benefit of nervous breakdowns, ultra-fast fashion, Mrs. Meyer’s soap, writing lesbian sex, Gamestop, Mormon Mommie Bloggers, butt lifts and more!

Riese

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Feb 19, 2021

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8 Books Featuring Big Queer Families, Found and Otherwise

“Stories about huge families full of love, whether nuclear or chosen or just-for-school, were the comfort food of my childhood, and I’m trying to find something similar for my queer…

Casey

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Feb 16, 2021

A person with long dark hair in a ponytail wearing glasses and a scarf reads a book curled up in a window corner.

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Like a Stiletto to the Heart: Sex Worker Stories You Should Know and Love

A resource guide to some of the crucial narratives and literary works around sex workers’ experiences in publication, from one of the editors of new anthology of sex workers’ writing…

Natalie West

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Feb 15, 2021

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Lez Liberty Lit: I Love A Semicolon

Semicolons are the best; so is having a nemesis; remembering gay bars; “the continual project of reckoning with ourselves”; and more.

Ryan

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Feb 11, 2021

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What If “When Harry Met Sally” Was a Feminist Lesbian Love Story? Emily Hashimoto Has the Answer with “A World Between”

“The trajectory with their partner or ex-partner and or friend or whoever is not linear; it’s, for some women, this big zig zagging: friends for five years, then date for…

Julie R Enszer

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Feb 4, 2021