Results for: book
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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?
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Lez Liberty Lit: Allow For The Unexpected
Why private eyes are watching you, watching everything (jk) (probably); computers are machines; banned books to read by writers of color; Karla Cornejo Villavicencio is the first undocumented person to ever be nominated for a National Book Foundation Award; and more.
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Lez Liberty Lit: Inefficient Writing
Trans writing for trans people, “Everybody Else (Is) Perfect” is perfect, your dream job is dead and more.
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Lez Liberty Lit: Drown Me In Best-of Lists
One last wave of all the “Best of 2020” lists you can handle! Plus, Roxane Gay is starting a book club, Carmen Maria Machado’s cheese ball recipe, how to be a girl detective, learning to be OK with being bored, and more.
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Lez Liberty Lit: High Femme Camp Antics
It’s best books season, the addiction-memoir genre has been dominated by men, somehow it will be March again in just three months, and yes — that piece about High Femme Camp Antics that everyone is subtweeting about.
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Lez Liberty Lit: The Word of the Year
The word of the year is… depends on who you ask. Plus, being very gay online, a trans-only writing class, getting back into journalling and more.
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Lez Liberty Lit: Poetry Is Not a Luxury
What happens when literary events move online, why we’re obsessed with other people’s bookshelves, lots of horror reading lists and more.
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Lez Liberty Lit: Boredom Banana Bread
The relationships between boredom, work, art, pandemic, and banana bread; the bourgeois romance of pandemic isolation; read books about “disreputable women” by women writers and more.
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Lez Liberty Lit: Reclaiming Genderqueer Monstrousness
Roxane Gay on Audre Lorde, Emily Hashimoto on writing lesbian sex, Tessa Gratton on reclaiming genderqueer monstrousness and more.
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Lez Liberty Lit: Library Sex
The people who fantasize about library sex, excerpts and fall reading lists galore, Black-owned bookstores and radical bookstores, pandemic creativity and more.
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Lez Liberty Lit: Traditional Vocabulary Is Defunct
Raven Leilani’s Luster and the new vocabulary for morality, how lesbian pulp fiction made one essayist feel normal, a ton of new memoirs and more.
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Lez Liberty Lit: Values-Driven Art Making
The past and future of trans narratives, a new Black-owned bookstore in the Twin Cities, updates on everyone’s pandemic diaries and more.
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Lez Liberty Lit: Reading Weather
Supporting small booksellers online, Samantha Irby on writing, reading or not reading books about pandemics, why it’s time to keep a journal and more.
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Lez Liberty Lit: The Emergency Library
1.4 million free books, virtual museum tours, maintaining a creative practice (but maybe not starting that coronavirus novel) and more.
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Lez Liberty Lit: Take Up Space In The World
The discourse around American Dirt, finding gay hope in The Bluest Eye, what it’d be like if books had smells and more.
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Lez Liberty Lit Is Locating Queer Desire
Finding queer desire in literature, why it can feel uncomfortable to read queer romance, two lesbian poets writing under the same pseudonym and more.
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Lez Liberty Lit: Into The Public Domain
Gay sex in great literature, healing from ancestral trauma, Zora Neal Hurston’s legacy, and more.
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Lez Liberty Lit: The Word of the Year
“They” is the word of the year! Plus: when languages die, when bookstores unionize, when Hilton Als writes on Joan Didion and more.
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Lez Liberty Lit Is Drowning in “Best of” Lists
Queer pleasure as a form of resistance, finding your purpose, the best of the best of lists and more.
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Lez Liberty Lit Is Motivated By Drive (Or Fear)
Is there a difference between drive and fear? Where are the abortion memoirs? What fall books should you definitely read?