Malinda Lo’s work has been incredibly relevant and sustaining to this site and this community, and her voice on current leaps forward in lesbian cultural production remains unparalleled. Which is why we’re more excited than we can say to partner with PenguinTeen to debut the cover and a new excerpt from Malinda’s latest and most personal book, Last Night at the Telegraph Club.
You’re joining a fight that is by no means new, check out this list of books to make sure you come correct to the next rally.
If you’re looking to escape reality for a little while, look no further than this year’s absolute bumper crop of queer novels. As late spring and summer literary events are postponed and cancelled, writers are looking for ways to connect virtually with readers and the publishing community – and finding ways to keep their creativity flowing in a difficult time.
We finished reading “Parable of the Sower” by Octavia Butler. At its core, the book is about embracing truth and change, which is especially true now — when our world seems much closer to Butler’s science fiction. We’d love for you to talk to us about it!
Supporting small booksellers online, Samantha Irby on writing, reading or not reading books about pandemics, why it’s time to keep a journal and more.
1.4 million free books, virtual museum tours, maintaining a creative practice (but maybe not starting that coronavirus novel) and more.
Come get dystopian and read “Parable of the Sower” with us!
Finding queer desire in literature, why it can feel uncomfortable to read queer romance, two lesbian poets writing under the same pseudonym and more.
The discourse around American Dirt, finding gay hope in The Bluest Eye, what it’d be like if books had smells and more.
Gay sex in great literature, healing from ancestral trauma, Zora Neal Hurston’s legacy, and more.
It has taken over 50 years for us to get the full, queer truth about Carson McCullers’s life, and now I know why. We were waiting for Jenn Shapland.
Reading goals as a personal hell, memes as a new kind of formalism, a dare to not be productive and more.
“They” is the word of the year! Plus: when languages die, when bookstores unionize, when Hilton Als writes on Joan Didion and more.
Queer pleasure as a form of resistance, finding your purpose, the best of the best of lists and more.
Carmen Maria Machado’s new gothic memoir, why reading is different from experiencing, new Elena Ferrante and more.
Nostalgia as a way to connect with diaspora, we are about to lose memory and history, reading on the climate emergency and more.
Is there a difference between drive and fear? Where are the abortion memoirs? What fall books should you definitely read?
YA trans literature, a new national Canadian literature by women, how to evaluate what you see and hear and more.
Feeling like a stranger in your body, on M.F.K. Fisher and joy in eating and writing, beach reads and more.
Writing women’s sexuality in literary fiction, digital minimalism, queer summer reading and more.
