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.”
Has anyone else not read this yet? No? Just me?
Rachel’s Team Pick: Trying to make a list of only 10 badass women writers is really hard.
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.
Hard times for Portland’s Just Out Newsmagazine, Toronto’s Glad Day’s bookstore and Minneapolis’ True Colors Bookstore.
I want to help you have a conversation with Eileen Myles. It starts on the Internet.
Fuzzy things are the most interesting, if you ask me.
Carmen’s Team Pick: That’s what rejection letters are y’all. They’re just mistakes.
Everything about this is something you love.
The National Book Award finalists have been announced, and a majority of them are by female authors.
“Well, you know what they say: Lint is a shell’s best friend.”
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.
We’re going to read Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home and it’s going to be great.
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!
Rachel’s Team Pick: What if Missed Connections were REALLY PRETTY?
There’s a really amazing picture of Michelle Tea inside this post.
Is Young Adult fiction unfriendly to LGBTQ characters? The answer is “absolutely not” or “yes,” depending on who you ask.
Rachel’s Team Pick: Look at this really cool thing that this person does with books!
Rachel’s Team Pick: You should submit something to Broad! A Gentlelady’s Magazine!
Rachel’s Team Pick: “I think it’s quietly genocidal. I mean in a spiritual sense. Instead of pole dancing you can be a pleasure rug. Just lie down! The money will come.”