“I always envisioned this book as something that would allow me to talk about how I got to know masculinity as an adult through sex work and reflect back on how I came to know masculinity from the time I was younger.”
My confused disaster of a teenage self could have used stories from this new canon of disaster bisexuals, stories about sexually fluid people in all their imperfections.
Author Sarah Wallace writes on queer community in the self-publishing world and rewriting the rules of her own success.
“The thing that gets me about a lot of people’s just criticisms of Fifty Shades of Grey is, as a romance novel, as a ravishment novel, it’s a lot closer to real SM, real sexy pulp, than most.”
“It was a political statement to portray sex, to portray queer sex, as it was to demand civil rights in the daytime.”
“Well the premise combined two of my favorite things: being gay and reading, so I was naturally intrigued.”
Behind the scenes with Kristen Arnett, Keah Brown, Rosemary Donahue, Josie Pickens, Vanessa Friedman, Samantha Allen, and Xoai Pham about their contributions to this reimagined cult classic.
Topics include Barnes & Noble, Black Excellence according to Bel-Air, a dog’s purpose, #vanlife, a nurse imposter, the pursuit of hotness, Los Angeles, Starbucks, the real reason for a recent spike in traffic accidents and more!
The author discusses her new memoir “The Red Zone,” which chronicles her experiences with premenstrual dysphoric disorder and provides a kaleidoscopic view of how people feel about their periods.
“The process of writing for me is the great work of life. It is the nexus where everything that matters to me intersects.”
“Manhunt is really my attempt to show the utility and the importance of existing in discomfort.”
The challenge of writing about human monsters is that you have to confront the ways in which they’re exactly like you are.
“When one is trying to write about sex, if you’re doing it right, something happens in the prose that is unpredictable and kind of wild.”
“I was really interested in writing about specifically Southern and genderqueer characters, in part because I felt like I hadn’t seen myself in both the literature and in the sort of ‘mythos’ of the South. So I wanted to fill in that gap.”
Malinda Lo talks about writing queerness in different genres, butch/femme dynamics in literature, and the gay Macy’s of the 1960s that didn’t make it into her book.
In this Autostraddle interview, Charlie Jane Anders discusses her new collection of short stories, “Even Greater Mistakes.”
If it’s too much pressure to pick out a book for your literary pal, consider a creative display shelf, a customizable book planter, pressed flower bookmarks, and other presents that are bookish but not books!
Malinda Lo’s National Book Award win for Last Night at the Telegraph Club comes at a particularly crucial moment for LGBTQ+ YA as a genre.
Topics include witchcraft consumerism, Kidz Bop, delivery workers in NYC, Ozy Media, abuse in the guardianship industry, Succession, documentaries and the hunt for a sober buzz!
The first sentence of “The Books of Bokonon” – the fictional foundational text of Bokononism, the religion Kurt Vonnegut invented for his 1963 novel Cat’s Cradle – reads as follows: “All of the true things I am about to tell you are shameless lies.”