Literature

Author interviews, guides to the best LGBT Literature, Gay and Lesbian Novels and Memoirs and more!

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

literature

Things I Read That I Love #301: A Truly Raunchy Line Involving a Sandwich Bun and a Hairdresser

Topics include Phoebe Waller-Bridge, an Air BnB scam, tourism in Iceland, what even is Newsweek anymore, some deportations of history and more! Like an excerpt from Carmen Maria Machado’s new…

Riese

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Nov 8, 2019

woman reading at a table with a beverage in an orange mug

literature

Lez Liberty Lit Is in the Dream House

Carmen Maria Machado’s new gothic memoir, why reading is different from experiencing, new Elena Ferrante and more.

Ryan Yates

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Nov 7, 2019

book features

Is the Resurgence of Feminist Bookstores in the South a Moment or a Movement?

Visit five feminist bookstores across the south east that are creating community building and political organizing space as well as curating feminist literature written by authors from different backgrounds holding…

meagan

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Nov 7, 2019

lgbt book reviews

“In the Dream House” Deconstructs the Nightmare of Abuse in Queer Relationships

Carmen Maria Machado’s first memoir, a deep dive into abuse between women both in Machado’s past relationship and in our world, is a wholly unique and wholly necessary text.

Rachel

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Nov 5, 2019

lgbt book reviews

Cyrus Grace Dunham’s “A Year Without a Name” Is an Affecting, Imperfect Exploration of Identity

Often, we talk about novels that should have been short stories. Dunham’s book of the same title “A Year Without a Name” feels like a memoir that should have been…

Oliver Reeson

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Oct 30, 2019

literature

Things I Read That I Love #300: What Are We Doing Here, In This Short Time On This Dying Rock?

Topics include tenacious Florida women, why NBC killed their Weinstein reporting, sexual violence, checking a bag, systemic racism in Milwaukee, circuit parties, the perfect coke dealer and more!

Riese

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Oct 25, 2019

A person reading on a couch in a dress with a dog asleep next to them

literature

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…

Ryan Yates

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Oct 24, 2019

lgbt book reviews

With “Bury the Lede,” Gaby Dunn Reshapes the Modern Thriller

“Bury the Lede” follows the familiar, even classic format that makes a hard-boiled detective story work, but Dunn takes that wireframe and expands upon it to make something unique.

Lisa A.C. Ryan

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Oct 22, 2019