Books
Rave's Review
Ex-publicist
Robert Rave's new novel Spin is poised to do
for the world of PR what The Devil Wears Prada
did for fashion mags. So don't be surprised if Lizzie
Grubman has a comment any minute now.
August 19, 2009
By Corey Scholibo
Books
Remembering E.
Lynn Harris
Publishing
veteran Charles Flowers remembers making history with author
E. Lynn Harris when, before David Sedaris or Augusten
Burroughs, the openly gay black author scored his
first New York Times best seller.
July 27, 2009
By Charles Flowers
Books
Waiting to
Land
Martin Duberman
takes a look back on George H.W. Bush’s inaction on
AIDS, Bill Clinton’s gaffes on gays in the
military, and the 25th anniversary of the Stonewall
riots with Waiting to Land: A (Mostly) Political Memoir.
July 24, 2009
By Charlotte Abbott
Books
Home on the Range
Wade Rouse may be
thought of as the gay love child of Henry David Thoreau
and David Sedaris, but toss him into the forest with a lover
and a smorgasbord of curious neighbors, and you have a
wicked black comedy.
July 17, 2009
By Greg Archer
Books
From Lebanon, in
a Hurry
The brave new
book Bareed Mista3Jil (a Lebanese Arabic phrase
that means "Express Mail") documents queer women's
stories for the Arab world.
July 8, 2009
By Amita Parashar
Book Excerpt
Excerpt: Mean
Little Deaf Queer
In an excerpt
from her humorous and harrowing new memoir, Mean Little
Deaf Queer, Terry Galloway recalls her early
childhood, describing feelings of ugliness, confusion
about gender, and being one of the boys.
June 30, 2009
Books
Coming Out
Fighting
New York Times perfume critic Chandler
Burr’s debut novel is a poignant,
semiautobiographical treatise on Hollywood and the
hypocrisies of Judaism.
June 24, 2009
By Nicholas Fonseca
Books
Lady of the
Night
After coming out
as a lesbian in 2006, Batwoman finally gets her own
comic book series -- and this time, she's out, proud, and
here to stay.
June 18, 2009
By Ed Tahaney
Books
God, Gays, and
Grits
James Hannaham's
debut novel is a comic coming-of-age story set in the
conservative South.
June 5, 2009
By Lee Bailey
Books
Like Mother, Like
Son
Is Susan Sontag's
son keeping the real Susan Sontag hidden from the
public with his edit of his late mother's journals? Sontag
biographer Carl Rollyson sure seems to think so.
May 21, 2009
By Carl Rollyson