How Sick Is “Sick Lit”?
“We were thirteen years old, and these stories confirmed our suspicions that the world was a cruel, sad place, riddled with surprise tragedies and untimely deaths.”
Happy Birthday, Virginia Woolf! I Love You A Lot
There are so many different ways to celebrate. You could have a Virginia Woolf dinner and costume party! You could smoke a pipe until your throat hurts! You could speak with a British accent for a day (unless you’re already British; then it’s too easy and not as much fun).
Things I Read That I Love #60: Skate Like A Girl
Topics include the horrors of high school, lady skateboarders, Marquee, older parenthood, wine, emotional men, Lindsay Lohan, sexual violence in Vietnam and more!
Queer Latina Punk Artist Cristy C. Road: The Interview
On art, politics, and the complexities of the closet: “The general idea of being in the closet is what urged me to find an alternative world.”
Lez Liberty Lit #12: I Owe Everything To Being Queer
This week in literature: reading writers you hate, choosing your own adventure, evolving libraries, an interview with Eileen Myles, Gertrude Stein and more.
Things I Read That I Love #59: That Cosmic Biblioteca Back Home
Topics include Good Will Hunting, the Zumba Instructor, holding gun stores accountable, the arcade, the facebook bus, Kozol, losing your library, Suze Orman and so much more!
Utah School District Returns Controversial Lesbian Family Book To Shelves, We Win A Thing
Davis County, UT school board realizes that maybe letting books help teach students’ tolerance about same-sex families is actually an awesome idea.
Science Says Reading the Classics Makes You Smarter, Nicer, Better Overall
If you enjoy Shakespeare, other classical texts, and poetry, your brain has superpowers.
Read A F*cking Book: Laura Szumowski’s ‘Tip of the Iceberg’
This tiny book is anything but your mother’s health education book.
Things I Read That I Love #58: Remember Friendster
Topics include mass murder, online dating in 2003, 9/11, anorexia, how Wal-Mart kills people, death of a bad dad, life after a breakup and so much more!
Lez Liberty Lit #11: Just Enough Happiness
In this week’s Liberty Lit: reading a book a day, heroines, books that feature Asian lesbians, bookstore cats and more.
Things I Read That I Love #57: Live From Snowbank City
Topics include snow removal in Montreal, homesteading, faux-survivalism, Honey Boo-Boo, sexual violence in India, temps, Cambodia, AIDS, and so much more!
My Top 8 Favorite Authors: Vanessa, Contributing Editor
The writers I like tend to be women who live, or who have lived, in New York, and who write about girls, growing up, and what it’s like to be a human being in this world.
Things I Read That I Love #56: My Own Private Idaho
Topics include River Phoenix, Sister Outsider Metalhead, poverty & a college education, not being an asshole, gun control, Alcatraz and so much more!
My Top 8 Favorite Authors: Rachel, Senior Editor
I like weird books, and these people write them.
Lez Liberty Lit #10: I Must Not Let Her Find Me Writing
This week in lit: T Cooper’s book soundtrack, favorite LGBT books of 2012, authors playing in the snow, poems from your cat’s point of view and more.
More Than Words: Láadan
The feminist sci-fi language that never got to jump off the page and do what it was supposed to.
Things I Read That I Love #55: Snow Fall, Snow Fall, Snow Fall
Topics include a deadly avalanche, Johnny & Winona, joy, survivalists, a church abuse scandal, a Mormon reporter on the Romney bus, malls, revealing your HIV status and contemplating psychopathy.
A Custom Fit: So Many Ways To Read A Thing!
There’s no wrong way to read a word, but sometimes there are so many ways it’s hard to choose which fits you best. Let’s review your options so you can always ride the reading rainbow with ease.
Things I Read That I Love #54: Everything Is Natural Now
Topics include drinking on YouTube, Kiki Kanniball, the Spur Posse, EuroDisney, natural death, censorship, online universities and so much more!