Study Claims Literature Becoming Less Emotional, But Maybe It’s Actually Just Less “Moody”
Making sense of a new study that says we don’t like our books to have “mood words” anymore, except for scary ones.
Things I Read That I Love #68: A-Poem-Worse-Than-Which-Cannot-Be-Imagined
Topics include Whitney Houston, the soul of student debt, Atlantic City, the West Memphis Three, Civil-Rights-era cold cases, notebooks, the Famous Poets Conference, the white male Academy, Westboro and so much more!
Swapping Spit: The Sister Spit Anthology & A Few Words with Michelle Tea
“This book is a queer anthem. It flashes bright neon lights and blows out plumes of dirty glitter.”
Lez Liberty Lit #16: We Log Onto Facebook In Order To Live
Lambda Literary Award Finalists, Lean In, Sister Spit, performance-enhancing drugs for writing, outsider lit for girls, bookish cures and so much more!
Read A F*cking Book: Gay Press, Gay Power
“You may find a copy of a gay paper on the street, in a garbage can, on a subway seat, a bus seat, and it would help save your life. Just being there was life-saving.”
Google Reader Alternatives: RSS Readers For Thwarted Souls
Didja hear? Google reader is being deactivated on July 1st. Here are a few replacements.
Things I Read That I Love #67: Love Hunters!
Topics include teaching in New Orleans, Jewish camp, domestic abuse, “scenes from a group marriage,” arson, the LA riots, Miss USA pageants, Washington’s chef Hercules and so much more!
Things I Read That I Love #66: Reading In Underpants
This week’s TIRTL includes a special Underwear Week section, as well as pieces on topics including Jehovah’s Witness, onscreen violence, sex abuse, robots, fan fiction, junk food and Alaska.
Lez Liberty Lit #15: A Blind Date With Literary Knickers
Underwear from lesbian fiction, a defence of reading, queer love letters, killer courses and more.
Things I Read That I Love #65: Ellen Finds A Plumber
Topics include Ellen circa 1998, women in the KKK, the HMS Bounty, high cost medical care, long prison terms and poverty, Adalia Rose, studio photography, child beauty pageants & manufacturing in America.
Maddie the Coonhound Traveled the U.S., Wants To Do It Again With Friends Like You
When a dog goes on a book tour, the rest seems pretty self-explanatory. Get in on this!
Kvelling Over First LGBT-Inclusive Jewish Children’s Book
Vanessa’s Team Pick: As a Jewish lesbian with hopes and dreams of one day becoming a mom, I feel that it is my duty to tell you that the very first LGBT-inclusive Jewish children’s book in English finally exists!
Read a F*cking Book: Barbara Sjoholm’s “Incognito Street”
This is a book about being a queer girl in the 1970s, about traveling the world, and about trying to be a writer by the woman who would go on to co-found Seal Press and write award-winning books because who says you can’t accomplish what you dream of doing?
Things I Read That I Love #64: Giddy, Girlish and Deeply Shallow
Topics include sorority rush, circus sideshow acts, murder, Jeopardy, college in China, Utopian musical communities, the post office, the mall, the pope, the post office and more!
Lez Liberty Lit #14: I Love The Smell Of Novellas In The Morning
Batwoman’s lesbian wedding, queer fiction for Black History Month, Jeanette Winterson on Virginia Woolf and confessions from an analogue-obsessed book sniffer, book cakes and so much more!
Things I Read That I Love #63: Like A Warm Danish From An Expensive Pastry Shop
Topics include ICU nurses, Orson Scott Card, Dr. Oz, working your way through college, prosecuting potential sex offenders, two-timing in New Orleans, google destroying San Francisco and more!
Things I Read That I Love #62: Diary Of A Bad Girl
Topics include 30 Rock, Mary Gaitskill, CES, The NRA, Perez Hilton, Kickstarter, Aileen Wuornos, Perez Hilton, Amy Bishop and so much more!
A Prairie Homo Companion: 5 Prairie Homo Writers You Should Know
Welcome to the latest instalment of A Prairie Homo Companion, in which I proudly inform you that the prairie homo literary movement is indeed here, queer, and fantastic.
Lez Liberty Lit #13: Silence And A Dark Room
This week in literature: the Lesbian Romance Drinking Game, keeping a notebook, diverse queer reading lists, ruining art and creative inspiration.
Things I Read That I Love #61: White Rabbits White Rabbits
Topics include karaoke, faith-based slavery in an Angola prison, Greek politics, chronic pain, emotional abuse, Richard Pryor, The Golden Dawn, murder, fantasyland and more!