Read A F*cking Book: Alison Bechdel’s “Are You My Mother?”
“Yeah, but don’t you think that… that if you write minutely and rigorously enough about your own life… you can, you know, transcend your particular self?”
Things I Read That I Love #26: Great Power
Topics include Fresno, internet marketing, consumerism vs. crafts, the McWane foundries, Justin Bieber, the opulence of hip-hop, tumblr and so much more!
Things I Read That I Love #25: Everybody Worships
Topics include my thirties, Canadian health care, women’s writing, anti-bullying programs and what the hell to do with your life according to Margaret Atwood and/or David Foster Wallace.
Things I Read That I Love #24: Vice Bust
This week’s topics include Mitt Romney being a jerk, tornadoes, the history of telephones, the psychology of fraud, writing in the dark, paying your way into restaurants and so much more!
In Which We Remember Maurice Sendak
“When everyone else was like, “There’s no such thing as monsters, kid” Sendak was all, “You’re damn right there’s monsters in your bedroom, so you best not give them a reason to eat you.”
Things I Read That I Love #23: A Very Famous Jersey Number
This week’s topics include serial killers who drive trucks, the armpit of America, the self-esteem of teenage girls, Lorrie Moore, the mirror and couponing!
Mini Interview: Andrea Askowitz and “My Miserable, Lonely, Lesbian Pregnancy”
“Is it a queer memoir and/or a pregnancy memoir? Neither.”
Make Sweet Poetry With Us
First we’ll create poems from nothing and then we’ll write poetry out loud.
Things I Read That I Love: Writers Writing About Writing
Here are some of my favorite things I’ve ever read on the internet about writing!
Read A F*cking Book: “Beyond Binary” Is Genderqueering Speculative Fiction
This book is the most awesome book I have read in a really long time and you should read it too. Immediately.
Reading on Catalan Valentine’s Day
Laura’s team pick: A rose for love and a book forever.
Things I Read That I Love #22: A Nice Day For a Daydream
Topics include Carl Sagan explaining why he smokes weed, The Great Zucchini, an innocent man on death row, The Huffington Post, the cost of being a lady writer in NYC and The War Against Youth.
28 Books About Gay Geography That’ll Take You On Journeys Through Time and Place
If you like lesbian history as much as I do, then you’ll love all these books about queer life in various towns, states, cities and countries. Your input is welcome!
Things I Read That I Love #21: Eat, Sleep, Read
This week’s topics include gay reparation therapy, online sports message boards, Thomas Kinkade, Suzanne Collins and being a better writer!
15 Women’s Magazines That Don’t Suck, Are Awesome
Celebrating the women’s magazines that keep pumping out smart, innovative and well-designed stuff against all odds. US Weekly is not on this list.
Sinclair Sexsmith on “Say Please: Lesbian BDSM Erotica”: The Autostraddle Interview
“The questions quickly became, what is BDSM? And what is lesbian? I’m not sure I know the answer in general, but I figured out a context for this anthology to be born into, some parameters about kinks and fetishes and gender.”
Things I Read That I Love #20: Happy Birds
Topics include “a Web Site named Livejournal”, Münchausen by internet, the publishing, industry risky writing, teaching film in prison and Angry Birds.
Looking into Writers’ Bedrooms, Personal Style, Lives
Carolyn’s Team Pick: Flannery O’Connor’s looks like it would be good for napping.
Things I Read That I Love #19: Are You Experienced?
Topics include The Daily Mail, Treyvon Martin, Dartmouth fraternity hazing, wilderness camps for troubled teens, bookstores and so much more!
The Days Of Yore: Writers and Artists Before “Making It”
“In high school I worked at McDonald’s. Got fired. I worked at a fabric store. Got fired. In college I worked as a custodian. Got fired. Wasn’t too good at the physical stuff. One person asked me if I was so bad on purpose or whether I was really that uncomprehending of the relation between soap and water.”