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.
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!
This week’s topics include gay reparation therapy, online sports message boards, Thomas Kinkade, Suzanne Collins and being a better writer!
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.
“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.”
Topics include “a Web Site named Livejournal”, Münchausen by internet, the publishing, industry risky writing, teaching film in prison and Angry Birds.
Carolyn’s Team Pick: Flannery O’Connor’s looks like it would be good for napping.
Topics include The Daily Mail, Treyvon Martin, Dartmouth fraternity hazing, wilderness camps for troubled teens, bookstores and so much more!
“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.”
“She died / a famous woman / denying // her wounds / denying // her wounds / came / from the same source as her power.”
Win a signed copy of Rachel Maddow’s new book!
Topics include Xanax, Trayvon Martin, waitressing, dystopian fiction, David Sedaris, the HBO show “Girls” and “The Jimmy McNulty Gambit.”
HI, IT’S HERE, THE MOVIE IS HERE
The 2012 Lambda Literary Award finalists have been announced! I want to read everything.
Topics include law school, real estate, a boy who disappeared, Sothebey’s, Tetris and the TED conference!
Carmen’s Team Pick: This is a Melissa Gira Grant appreciation post.
“Suddenly it all became very clear to me what made the two books different, what brought them together, and what let them stand alone. And suddenly I was crying.”
Topics include asexuality, the horrors of delivering Chinese food in NYC, Bill Cosby, women’s novels, Lawrence vs. Texas, post-Katrina Louisiana and the history of the infographic!
This week’s topics include sorority girls, raising kids these days, neuroenhancing drugs, online shopping warehouse working conditions and so much more!
Topics include “The L Word: Not Your Mother’s Lesbians,” “Straight Girl’s Seduction” and “the ambisexual, heteroflexible teen.”