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Literature

Non-Required Reading from Byliner.com and Longform.org

Riese’s Team Pick: curated non-fiction from my favorite website longform and Byliner, a new site to “discover & discuss great reads by great writers.”

Riese June 21, 2011 9 Comments
Literature

Gabby’s Team Pick: xQsi Magazine – Queer Latin@s

xQsi (Porque Si) Magazine is an online media publication that embraces the diversity of interests in the Latin@ LGBTQ community. Bottom line: this site is f*cking rad.

gabby June 19, 2011 24 Comments
Literature

Crystal’s Team Pick: 25 Lessons For Creatives In Patti Smith’s ‘Just Kids’

#1 – Never apologize for being an artist.

Crystal June 17, 2011 20 Comments
Book Features

Lily’s Team Pick: Better Book Titles

Better Book Titles Tumblr: Because it would be really funny if Steinbeck’s “The Grapes of Wrath” was actually titled “Fuck tha Police”.

Lily June 6, 2011 16 Comments
Book Features

Win a Signed Copy of ‘ThxThxThx’ and Obliterate Your Ingratitude

“Leah Dieterich’s mother always told her to write thank you notes. So she does.”

Laneia June 3, 2011 107 Comments
Book Features

Carolyn’s Team Pick: Responses to Esquire’s List of “75 Books Every Man Should Read”

“Do not read books by women to murder your inner sexist pig. Do it because Edith Wharton can f*cking write. It’s that simple.”

Ryan Yates May 31, 2011 12 Comments
Book Features

Mary Gray Knows What it Feels Like For Gay Kids in Rural America

“I’m not less gay when I take the rainbow sticker off my car. I just know that if I have that in my car, I’m going to piss off people who are already angry at me.”

Chloe May 27, 2011 61 Comments
Book Lists

Read a F*cking Book, Lesbo: This Summer’s Newest Bestest Books

Whether you want to be smarter, get lost in a novel, relive Pure Poetry Week or read a book geared towards 13-year-olds, everyone can find something to read in this post.

Ryan Yates May 26, 2011 40 Comments
Book Features

How Will We Save LGBTQ Bookstores?

More and more gay bookstores are closing, which is bad for my bookstore addiction. Let’s talk this out.

Riese May 25, 2011 86 Comments
LGBT Book Reviews

Autostraddle Read a F*cking Book Club #3 – Bastard Out Of Carolina

“Oh, but that’s why I got to cut his throat,” she said plainly. “If I didn’t love the son of a bitch, I’d let him live forever.”

Rachel May 17, 2011 43 Comments
LGBT Book Reviews

Riese’s Team Pick: Microaggressions in Everyday Life: Race, Gender & Sexual Orientation

“microaggressions are constant and continuing experiences of marginalized groups in our society; they assail the self-esteem of recipients, produce anger and frustration, deplete psychic energy…”

Riese May 14, 2011 23 Comments
LGBT Book Reviews

Read a F*cking Book Review – “Persistence: All Ways Butch and Femme”

WE’RE YOUR BEST GIRLFRIEND AND YOUR WORST NIGHTMARE

bcw May 8, 2011 24 Comments
Book Features

Oscar Wilde’s “Dorian Gray” Gets Uncensored and Totally Gay

Listen up, you heathen bookworms! The Picture of Dorian Gray’s uncensored, homogay tendencies have been restored.

Jess May 4, 2011 52 Comments
Book Features

Pure Poetry #35: Lesbian Poet Kay Ryan Wins the Pulitzer Prize

She found out from her friend, ‘Kay Ryan you won a Pulitzer,’ on the phone. She won for her volume “The Best of It.”

Carmen April 19, 2011 10 Comments
Book Features

Riese’s Team Pick: Longform Does National Magazine Awards

“The only problem with the American Society of Magazine Editors announcing the finalists for its print awards Tuesday is that now I have a really long reading list.”

Riese April 11, 2011 6 Comments
LGBT Book Reviews

Stronger Than Yesterday, “Venus With Biceps” Do It Nothin’ But Their Way

So, The “Trapeze Disrobing Act” is basically exactly what it sounds like.

Meghan April 8, 2011 23 Comments
Book Features Issues

Pure Poetry #34: Of All Poets, Stephen Dunn

In which five of us talk about our favorite poet ever. “Those of us who think we know / the same secrets / are silent together most of the time.”

Riese March 30, 2011 41 Comments
Issues Literature

Pure Poetry #33: Sappho Was a Right-On Woman by Marisa Meltzer

“I kinda only care about lesbian poets.”

Marisa March 29, 2011 25 Comments
Literature

Read A F*cking Book Club #3: We’re Reading Bastard Out Of Carolina!

We’re going to read Bastard Out Of Carolina and we want you to read it with us!

Rachel March 29, 2011 48 Comments
Issues Literature

Pure Poetry #32: Gertrude Stein & Mina Loy

Did you know that Gertrude Stein and Mina Loy were friends? Do you even know who Mina Loy is? I didn’t until about ~5 days ago.

Emily March 29, 2011 12 Comments
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