Lez Liberty Lit Is in the Dream House
Carmen Maria Machado’s new gothic memoir, why reading is different from experiencing, new Elena Ferrante and more.
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Lez Liberty Lit: “Books” Are Still Not A Personality
“Where are the boundaries between story and real life, between consciousness and an idea?” Plus, the petty errors that pull you out of a piece of writing, how books became a lifestyle brand and, one assumes, a personality, and more.
Lez Liberty Lit: Reclaiming Anger
Halloween reading, all the new (and forthcoming!) Carmen Maria Machado, women reclaiming anger and more.
Lez Liberty Lit: The Future Is Not Infinite
Nostalgia as a way to connect with diaspora, we are about to lose memory and history, reading on the climate emergency and more.
Lez Liberty Lit: Likability Is Dehumanizing
Why likability is a lie, a new edition of Colonize This!, the publisher reissuing queer genre fiction from the 60s to 90s, abandoning books and more.
Lez Liberty Lit Is Joining a Silent Bookclub
Silently reading en masse, language and citizenship, writers remembering Toni Morrison and more.
Lez Liberty Lit Is Evaluating Everything
YA trans literature, a new national Canadian literature by women, how to evaluate what you see and hear and more.
Lez Liberty Lit: Study Your Own Hunger
Feeling like a stranger in your body, on M.F.K. Fisher and joy in eating and writing, beach reads and more.
Lez Liberty Lit Is Seeking the Sublime, or Something
Writing women’s sexuality in literary fiction, digital minimalism, queer summer reading and more.
Lez Liberty Lit Is All About Summer Reading
What a beach read is anyway, a new book about Los Angeles BDSM, the most cursed days for writers and more.
Lez Liberty Lit: Detective Work
Queer language before we had queer language, a new generation of villainous women, why money doesn’t save artists, the best bad women in fiction, tons of translated titles and more.
Lez Liberty Lit Would Rather Have Friends Than Grammar
“You can have friends or you can correct people’s grammar.” Plus poems about soft bodies on a planet in peril, an argument for binge reading and more.
Lez Liberty Lit Is Under, and Lost
Carmen Maria Machado, writers’ roles in addressing climate change, why you don’t need to publish a book by 30, a liberated Cinderella, and more!
Lez Liberty Lit Is Cussing Like No One’s Listening
Writing and money, machines learning from our texts (and replicating our power structures), whether books are clutter and more.
Lez Liberty Lit Is Checking Out These Hot Literary Rivalries
Getting real about the financial realities of writing, creative forces of subculture, K-pop, the branded ephemera of Frida Khalo, and shedding books to survive academia.
Lez Liberty Lit Is Investigating Creative Sustainability
A website that generates short stories based on phone numbers, the feminist Western, financially sustaining a creative life, books to read before “The L Word” comes back, and more.
Lez Liberty Lit Is Writing Honestly About The Body
“Why are we so quick to conclude that marginalized writers’ work is autobiographical?” Plus books about love triangles, a secret lesbian code, why you need to start writing letters to trans people in prison and more.
Lez Liberty Lit: Imagining a Safer Future
Still mourning Mary Oliver. Plus why “books” are not a personality, the mood of reading, feminist bookstores to support right now and more.
Lez Liberty Lit Is Full of Its Past Selves
A humble argument for not counting how many books you read. Plus: Lin-Manuel Miranda saved a bookstore, Mari Kondo doesn’t actually want you to get rid of all your books, and more.
Lez Liberty Lit: Creative Metabolism
The creative process, insomnia, books to read in 2019 and more.