For Anyone Who Likes Sex, Feelings, Love Letters, Books, All Of The Above
Carmen’s Team Pick: This is a Melissa Gira Grant appreciation post.
In Which You May Avail Yourself of Free Advice On How and Why to Write
Rachel’s Team Pick: “When one writes a thing — when you discover and then put it down, which is the essence of discovering it — one is done with it. What people get out of it is none of the writer’s business.”
Autostraddle Book Club #5: We’re Reading The Hunger Games!
Has anyone else not read this yet? No? Just me?
Who Runs the Literary World? These Girls!
Rachel’s Team Pick: Trying to make a list of only 10 badass women writers is really hard.
Maurice Sendak Is Curmudgeonly, Brilliant, Tells You To Go To Hell
Whitney’s Team Pick: Maurice Sendak, author of “Where the Wild Things Are” is as brilliant and curmudgeonly as ever in this mini documentary. I love you, Maurice.
End Times Approach For LGBT Newsweekly, Gay Bookstore and Feminist Bookstore
Hard times for Portland’s Just Out Newsmagazine, Toronto’s Glad Day’s bookstore and Minneapolis’ True Colors Bookstore.
Get A Conversation with Eileen Myles All To Yourself
I want to help you have a conversation with Eileen Myles. It starts on the Internet.
Everything Is Better With Cats, Especially Books
Fuzzy things are the most interesting, if you ask me.
Rejection Letters Are Good For You, Especially When They’re Not For You
Carmen’s Team Pick: That’s what rejection letters are y’all. They’re just mistakes.
On Style, Eileen Myles
Everything about this is something you love.
Lady Writers Win More Book Prizes, Take Leap In Right Direction
The National Book Award finalists have been announced, and a majority of them are by female authors.
Marcel the Shell Has Shoes On, Also New Children’s Book
“Well, you know what they say: Lint is a shell’s best friend.”
Banned Books Week: The Conspiracy to Shield Queer Books From Your Eyes
School libraries are one of the best places to find LGBT teen literature…which is why anti-gay adults are so afraid of them. Luckily, you can do something about that.
Autostraddle Book Club #4: We’re Reading Fun Home!
We’re going to read Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home and it’s going to be great.
(Un)Official Declaration of Visit Your Local Independent Bookstore Day
Borders is in the process of no longer existing, Amazon mistreats its employees, and it’s banned books week. Get thee to a(n independent) bookstore!
Missed Connections Might Be The Best Thing About Monday
Rachel’s Team Pick: What if Missed Connections were REALLY PRETTY?
Hot Authors Have a Way With Words, Are Also Really Hot
There’s a really amazing picture of Michelle Tea inside this post.
“Straightening” Gay Characters in Young Adult Fiction: Are YA Books Keeping You a Secret?
Is Young Adult fiction unfriendly to LGBTQ characters? The answer is “absolutely not” or “yes,” depending on who you ask.
Nina Katchadourian Sorts Books, Makes Them Even More Awesome
Rachel’s Team Pick: Look at this really cool thing that this person does with books!
Broad! A Literary Zine For Broads Both Classy and Otherwise
Rachel’s Team Pick: You should submit something to Broad! A Gentlelady’s Magazine!