“I tried not to do that. I tried to keep the most important thing the story and the storytelling, because I think it gets annoying when you have an agenda. I would do anything to not be annoying.”
The Last Bookstore on Earth is a YA dystopian novel set in a bookstore and full of sapphic yearning.
Check out our top five picks for the month along with the rest of the LGBTQ book slate for February.
Chirp of tree frogs floating sonorous, each piercing chirrup rising on the wane of the last. I’m in my childhood home.
These 30+ books are about land, ecology, natural disasters, apocalypse, the harm capitalism does to the planet, despair, hope, growth, death, and rebirth.
Slapping Leather addresses how the idealized white masculine cowboy has always been a myth.
As Florida now leads the nation in book bans, putting together a little Florida road trip travel guide oriented around independent bookstores feels meaningful. There’s more to this place than theme parks and beaches. Adding a Florida bookstore road trip to your next vacation in the sunshine state will let you see parts of this place in a deeper way.
Catch up on all the great queer poetry from this year!
We talked to Leisha Hailey and Kate Moennig about Allstora’s PANTS Pod book club and its mission to uplift queer authors, connect with pod listeners and read some really good lesbian books.
This year especially I’ve striven to put the spotlight on books that haven’t gotten a lot of mainstream attention.
The next couple months are bringing lots of new queer books to shelves, but sapphic Romantasy in particular is booming this winter.
From trans memoirs that revel in the beauty of transition to sci-fi novels, manga, and quiet literary dramas that give us a reason to be proud, these books remind us that being trans is, in fact, a celebration!
“Two or three things I know, but this is the one I am not supposed to talk about, how it comes together — sex and violence, love and hatred.”
Dorothy Allison died at the age of 75 from cancer earlier this week. Some of my favorite teachers in the world are people I’ve never shared a classroom with, and Allison is undoubtedly one of them.
Topics include “border theater” in Texas, the rise of Nerds Clusters, the WNBA, regional McDonalds’ cuisine, behind the scenes at Love is Blind, how the Fentanyl crisis is harming teens, the collapse of self-worth in the digital age, the competitive cheerleading monopoly and more!
Was it cowardice that kept us, in our debut, from writing a queer novel?
If you’re a horror movie fan who wants to see more stories by queer writers, or featuring good queer representation, head to the bookstore instead of the movie theater.
The stories of trans youth go largely ignored by the American public in our cultural conversations about their lives, but Nico Lang is giving everyone a chance to change that with their new book, American Teenager: How Trans Kids Are Surviving Hate and Finding Joy in a Turbulent Era.
For many trans readers, it’s easy to find a kinship with Kafka.
With a toddler and another baby on the way, Rachael Lippincott and Alyson Derrick have to carve out space to keep making art together.