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’s Team Pick: curated non-fiction from my favorite website longform and Byliner, a new site to “discover & discuss great reads by great writers.”
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.
#1 – Never apologize for being an artist.
Better Book Titles Tumblr: Because it would be really funny if Steinbeck’s “The Grapes of Wrath” was actually titled “Fuck tha Police”.
“Leah Dieterich’s mother always told her to write thank you notes. So she does.”
“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.”
“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.”
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.
More and more gay bookstores are closing, which is bad for my bookstore addiction. Let’s talk this out.
“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.”
“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…”
WE’RE YOUR BEST GIRLFRIEND AND YOUR WORST NIGHTMARE
Listen up, you heathen bookworms! The Picture of Dorian Gray’s uncensored, homogay tendencies have been restored.
She found out from her friend, ‘Kay Ryan you won a Pulitzer,’ on the phone. She won for her volume “The Best of It.”
“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.”
So, The “Trapeze Disrobing Act” is basically exactly what it sounds like.
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.”
“I kinda only care about lesbian poets.”
We’re going to read Bastard Out Of Carolina and we want you to read it with us!
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.