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Book Features

How To Name Your Child After Beer, Brunch and Roller Derby

Vanessa’s Team Pick: Give your future child the hipstery indie DIY name they so richly deserve.

Vanessa August 22, 2012 64 Comments
Book Features

Millennials Buy The Most Books, Will Save The (Publishing) World

Are you a millennial who likes to read and buy books? Me too! And now there’s a study proving that we all paid attention during Reading Rainbow.

Vanessa August 19, 2012 32 Comments
Literature

Things I Read That I Love #38: She Hit Send

Topics include Dominique Moceanu, life insurance, Sweet Valley High, Spike Lee, bath salts, Juggalos, life insurance, hipster conservatives and abortion!

Riese August 17, 2012 17 Comments
Literature

Lez Liberty Lit: Your New Biweekly Guide To Queer Lady Literature

Welcome to the inaugural Lez Liberty Lit post, a column where we tell you things about books that will make your brain smarter, better, faster, stronger.

Ryan Yates August 16, 2012 18 Comments
LGBT Book Reviews

Read a F*cking Canadian Book, Eh: Shani Mootoo’s “Cereus Blooms at Night”

“We sat reading on the rooftop for hours, only stopping when the sound of a train drowned out our voices.”

Malaika August 16, 2012 12 Comments
Book Features

Patti Smith Reads Her Poems To You, Makes You Swoon

Crystal’s Team Pick: “Everyone loves poetry and also Patti Smith” – Laneia

Crystal August 14, 2012 4 Comments
Book Features

Literary Tumblrs For All You Tumblin’, Book-Lovin’ Queers

Malaika’s Team Pick: Tumblrs about books to read when you don’t feel like a book.

Malaika August 11, 2012 12 Comments
Book Lists

Read a F*cking Book: 20 Best Young Adult Novels For Queer Girls

NPR’s list of Top 100 Choices For Best Teen Novels lacked proper queeriosity. Thus we present our top 20 picks for Queer Teen Novels For Girls.

Riese August 10, 2012 90 Comments
Literature

Things I Read That I Love #37: Can’t Sleep Write Now

Topics include Nick Drake, the hunt for a missing autistic child, the morning-after pill, nannies, homeless teens in Boystown, teevee preachers, where i write and more!

Riese August 10, 2012 8 Comments
Book Features

In Which His Death Helped Me Finally Get To Know Gore Vidal

The literary badass and sexual liberation babe passed away last week at 88, and that was how I discovered him.

fonseca August 10, 2012 19 Comments
Book Features Pets & Animals

Top Five Famous Queer Lady Writers and their Dogs

“Girlfriends will love you and leave you, but your four-legged friend’s desire to wake you each morning with an enthusiastic lick will never waver.”

Malaika August 8, 2012 17 Comments
Literature

Things I Read That I Love #36: Merrily We Rollergirl Along

Topics include rhythmic gymnastics, criminal profiling, Canadian tourism in Cuba, racism in casting notices, TomKat, roller derby, Alison Bechdel, sexting and more!

Riese August 3, 2012 7 Comments
Book Features

Hey Girl, Feminist Ryan Gosling Is Now A Coffee Table Book

It’s like when the greatest thing in the world gets even better.

Vanessa August 2, 2012 19 Comments
Book Features

I Also Love Vintage Books Your Kid Loves

Riese’s team pick: San Antonio writer Burgin Street is obsessed with vintage childrens books and consequently, I’m obsessed with her blog.

Riese July 31, 2012 55 Comments
Literature

Real Talk From Your Editor Returns with A Vengeance

Rachel’s Team Pick: Editor Real Talk is back, and possibly even better!

Rachel July 31, 2012 8 Comments
Issues LGBT Book Reviews

Read A F*cking Book: “Stranger On Lesbos” Reminds Us How Far We’ve Come and What Hasn’t Changed

“I am glad to be here with you in 2012. But I am glad someone was there in 1950.”

Carmen July 31, 2012 4 Comments
Literature

Things I Read That I Love #35: Proper Nouns

Topics include the Norway shooting, Nadia Comaneci, R.L Stine, Haruki Murakami, Gloria Allred, welfare-to-work programs, death row, eating disorders & Saved By the Bell!

Riese July 27, 2012 15 Comments
Book Features Visual Art

Stories from the Subway: Visit the Underground New York Public Library

If you like books and street photography, UNYPL is going to be your new happy place.

Vanessa July 27, 2012 9 Comments
LGBT Book Reviews

Read a F*cking Book: “No Straight Lines: Four Decades of Queer Comics”

A definitive collection of queer comics through the past four decades.

Hansen July 25, 2012 7 Comments
Book Lists

Yet Another Top 10 Lesbian Romance Novels

Love stories featuring lesbian Secret Service agents, doctors, super spies, life coaches, personal trainers and women of many other professions.

Crystal July 24, 2012 41 Comments
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