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LGBT Book Reviews

Read a F*cking Book: Sylvia Traymore Morrison’s ‘Almost There, Almost’

This book promises you two things: it was written by a funny person and it was written by a great person. You can’t go wrong.

Carmen February 24, 2012 4 Comments
Literature

Things I Read That I Love #14: Your Lucky Day

Today’s topics include audiobooks, long-distance running, exotic pets, murder, Steve Jobs and plagiarism!

Riese February 24, 2012 19 Comments
Literature

J.K. Rowling Is Writing A New Book, Try Not To Pee Your Pants

THESE LETTERS ARE NOT CAPITAL ENOUGH TO ACCURATELY CONVEY MY EXCITEMENT.

Intern Grace February 23, 2012 54 Comments
LGBT Book Reviews

I Read “Trans/Love” And It Was Awesome

“I just realized wow, there’s so much to be said from the whole range of perspectives: trans women and trans men and everything in between.”

Ryan Yates February 16, 2012 6 Comments
Book Features

In Which You May Avail Yourself of Free Advice On How and Why to Write

Rachel’s Team Pick: “When one writes a thing — when you discover and then put it down, which is the essence of discovering it — one is done with it. What people get out of it is none of the writer’s business.”

Rachel February 14, 2012 6 Comments
Literature

Things I Read That I Love #12

Topics include Hollister, the U.S. prison system, an amusement park about Charles Dickens, Mitt Romney and AshleyMadison.com!

Riese February 11, 2012 26 Comments
Book Features

Autostraddle Book Club #5: We’re Reading The Hunger Games!

Has anyone else not read this yet? No? Just me?

Rachel February 8, 2012 136 Comments
Literature

Things I Read That I Love #11

Topics include Bill O’Reilly’s mental health, botched murder investigations in Baltimore, Downton Abbey, Dan Savage, Brandon Teena and the for-profit Phoenix University.

Riese February 3, 2012 27 Comments
LGBT Book Reviews

“Cult Classic of Taiwanese Lesbian Literature” Now Excerpted In English, Available Online

Rachel’s Team Pick: “My prototype of a woman was the type who would appear in hallucinations at the last moments of your freezing to death at the top of an icy mountain, a mythical beauty who blurred the line between dreams and reality.”

Rachel February 1, 2012 8 Comments
Literature

Things I Read That I Love #10

Today’s topics include living alone, Grey Gardens, Mary Karr, homophobia at an elite private school in Texas, Victoria Jackson and the influence of Pitchfork.

Riese January 27, 2012 12 Comments
Book Features

Who Runs the Literary World? These Girls!

Rachel’s Team Pick: Trying to make a list of only 10 badass women writers is really hard.

Rachel January 24, 2012 15 Comments
Book Lists

8 Queerish Short Story Books

So many short story books have at least a little touch of queer — like these from Dorothy Allison, Mary Gaitskill, Thisbe Nissen, Amy Bloom and more!

Riese January 23, 2012 52 Comments
Literature

Things I Read That I Loved #9: Orange You Glad I Didn’t Say Banana

I read these things and I loved them. No honestly this one I think is especially good.

Riese January 16, 2012 11 Comments
Literature

Things I Read That I Love #8

Topics include airport security, Stephen Colbert, Forever 21, Lucy Grealy and a surgeon who left his patient on the operating table to go cash his paycheck.

Riese January 6, 2012 15 Comments
Book Lists

Reading Rainbow 2012: The Things We’re Finally Actually Going To Read This Year

What will you read in 2012?

the team January 2, 2012 100 Comments
Book Features

Maurice Sendak Is Curmudgeonly, Brilliant, Tells You To Go To Hell

Whitney’s Team Pick: Maurice Sendak, author of “Where the Wild Things Are” is as brilliant and curmudgeonly as ever in this mini documentary. I love you, Maurice.

Whitney Pow January 2, 2012 15 Comments
Literature

Things I Read That I Love #7

This week we’ll travel to North Korea, but also to Portland! Topics include oxy addiction, the NBA, wax museums and murder/suicide!

Riese December 30, 2011 21 Comments
Book Features

End Times Approach For LGBT Newsweekly, Gay Bookstore and Feminist Bookstore

Hard times for Portland’s Just Out Newsmagazine, Toronto’s Glad Day’s bookstore and Minneapolis’ True Colors Bookstore.

Carmen December 29, 2011 8 Comments
Literature

Things I Read That I Love #6

Topics include pill culture, tough-love teen homes, Lorrie Moore, marketing, plane crashes and Justin Bieber!

Riese December 23, 2011 21 Comments
Book Lists

Another Top 10 Lesbian Romance Novels (Currently On My Kindle)

Romance novels: they’re not just for straight people anymore. In this episode we have hot cops/FBI agents, congresswomen passing more than bills, and lots of folks playing doctor.

Crystal December 22, 2011 72 Comments
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