Best Fall Book Preview of all time, The Others (Seba Al-Herz) potential Autostraddle Book Club Pick, also Malinda Lo, graphjam, books from David Byrne, Nabokov & Kathy Griffin, Girldrive, YA Teen Sexual Discovery book, review of Tao Lin’s Shoplifting From American Apparel and more!

GLAAD applauds Glee, viewers love Modern Family, and Rose Rollins & Mia Kirshner are gonna be in the same episode of CSI! Also, Ellen Page & Drew Barrymore just don’t cuddle in public like they used to and Emily Deschanel & Alyson Hannigan go to second base.

Lady Gaga’s best gig yet at the HRC Dinner with Barack Obama. She’ll also be marching in the National Equality March. Also; Shane & Papi faced off again on Three Rivers, and no one was watching — except us. Recap ensues. AND SUPER CUTE TEGAN & SARA STUFF! AND MORE! Best A&E daily fix ever, basically.

In 1997, Michelle Tea and Sini Anderson started Sister Spit – a spoken word tour full of the best queer writers and poets around. Twelve years later, Sister Spit: The Next Generation is taking over the world/my heart. On October 5, the tour came to Phoenix and I interviewed them for you, which is actually a big deal because it was the first face-to-face interview I’ve ever done and I was scared, y’all.

As Crystal prepares for the long haul flight from Australia to Rodeo Disco, some of Autostraddle’s frequent flyers recommend some of the more constructive ways that one can spend their time on a 14-hour flight. Reader? Alcoholic? Nervous flyer? We’ve got advice: how to befriend a flight attendant, prepare delicious in-flight snacks, sleep in comfort and what musicians offer suitable in-flight listening.

Are you ready to get this Prop 8 thing taken care of once and for all? SO ARE WE. We recap today’s closing arguments on the Prop 8 trial on gay marriage in California, with characteristic Autostraddle style and class.

Autostraddle has a serious soft spot for documentaries, and we want to give you the same. Here’s the official Autostraddle list of the documentary films everyone should see before they die.

Are you going to San Francisco? We did.

Can you argue right? We have twelve rules that say you can. No biting!

Black Friday is a really special day when Americans turn into wild, ravaging, bloody beasts. You should skip all that. Stay home, here’s 20 hand-picked deals and a bit of extraneous unnecessary commentary and a link to the boyshorts 101 post and the one about headphones.

Buy stuff. Buy stuff for your friends. Buy stuff for yourself. Buy stuff for us. Buy stuff.

“If you guys start to ignore SEO or churn out bullshit titles, I’m going to go into your post and fix it and I don’t have good grammar. In other words I will motherfuck your post.”

Talk about NOT ending with a bang. Really IFC, it’s one thing to weigh down your show’s sixth season with an endless parade of unnecessary melodramatic plot devices — a murder, a pregnant man, a stolen film, a botched adoption from homophobic out-of-towners, two out-of-the-blue love triangles — and quite another thing to, when the season ends, not even “use” these devices to infuse the series finale with aforementioned melodrama.

I made these awards for you with my fingertips. Actually you guys are the funny ones, so I guess you made your own awards.

“As I walked across the mall wondering if the way I walked made me look obviously lesbian, my mind switched to thinking about how much weight I’d have to lose to fit comfortably into those Capri pants.”

Work your magic on Valentine’s Day with these four ridiculously irresistible recipes (with photos!) from our Team. Seriously, don’t read this if you’re hungry.

Amos Mac, photographer and editor-in-chief of the groundbreaking magazine, Original Plumbing, talks to Laneia about being a trans guy, the power of photography and (briefly) Girl Scouts.

The comment awards are back and we’ve got two weeks full of your sharp cheddar/wit that we’re ready to throw back at you because we love you more than cheese!

One year ago today, Jenny “died” and Autostraddle was born.

We finally wrote another roundtable, and it’s about feminism! This discussion is gonna take a while, so we’re going to start this by talking about how we first became feminists. Share your own experiences in the comments!