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Literature

Things I Read That I Love #57: Live From Snowbank City

Topics include snow removal in Montreal, homesteading, faux-survivalism, Honey Boo-Boo, sexual violence in India, temps, Cambodia, AIDS, and so much more!

Riese January 4, 2013 8 Comments
Book Lists

My Top 8 Favorite Authors: Vanessa, Contributing Editor

The writers I like tend to be women who live, or who have lived, in New York, and who write about girls, growing up, and what it’s like to be a human being in this world.

Vanessa January 3, 2013 15 Comments
Literature

Things I Read That I Love #56: My Own Private Idaho

Topics include River Phoenix, Sister Outsider Metalhead, poverty & a college education, not being an asshole, gun control, Alcatraz and so much more!

Riese December 28, 2012 7 Comments
Book Lists

My Top 8 Favorite Authors: Rachel, Senior Editor

I like weird books, and these people write them.

Rachel December 28, 2012 15 Comments
Literature

Lez Liberty Lit #10: I Must Not Let Her Find Me Writing

This week in lit: T Cooper’s book soundtrack, favorite LGBT books of 2012, authors playing in the snow, poems from your cat’s point of view and more.

Ryan Yates December 27, 2012 8 Comments
Book Features

More Than Words: Láadan

The feminist sci-fi language that never got to jump off the page and do what it was supposed to.

Cara December 25, 2012 26 Comments
Literature

Things I Read That I Love #55: Snow Fall, Snow Fall, Snow Fall

Topics include a deadly avalanche, Johnny & Winona, joy, survivalists, a church abuse scandal, a Mormon reporter on the Romney bus, malls, revealing your HIV status and contemplating psychopathy.

Riese December 21, 2012 15 Comments
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A Custom Fit: So Many Ways To Read A Thing!

There’s no wrong way to read a word, but sometimes there are so many ways it’s hard to choose which fits you best. Let’s review your options so you can always ride the reading rainbow with ease.

Vanessa December 17, 2012 30 Comments
Literature

Things I Read That I Love #54: Everything Is Natural Now

Topics include drinking on YouTube, Kiki Kanniball, the Spur Posse, EuroDisney, natural death, censorship, online universities and so much more!

Riese December 14, 2012 21 Comments
Literature

Lez Liberty Lit #9: The Golden Age Is Now

In this edition of Lez Liberty Lit: the golden age for writers, nostalgia, literary cartography, bookshelves as diaries,
“I Saw Zombies Eating Santa Claus” and the end of the world.

Ryan Yates December 13, 2012 4 Comments
Book Lists

100 Best Lesbian Fiction & Memoir Books Of All Time

You voted and the results are in – the best 100 queer-lady fiction or memoir books of all time!

the team December 11, 2012 61 Comments
Book Lists

My Top 8 Favorite Authors: Malaika, Contributing Editor

Is it too much to say Pippi Longstocking made me the woman I am today? No, no, it isn’t at all.

Malaika December 11, 2012 21 Comments
Literature

Things I Read That I Love #53: You’re Really Gonna Like The First One

Topics include Mormon fundamentalists, plane crashes, studying gangs, LOST, electrocution, nostalgia for YA novels and children’s books, not going to prom and so much more!

Riese December 7, 2012 15 Comments
Book Lists

My Top 8 Favorite Authors: Riese, Editor-in-Chief

In which all books mentioned herein were published after 1975 and almost everybody is both female and still alive.

Riese December 4, 2012 34 Comments
Literature

Things I Read That I Love #52: The Very Special One-Year Anniversary Edition

We celebrate an entire year of TIRTLs with a look at 32 of my favorite longreads of all time!

Riese November 30, 2012 16 Comments
Book Lists

My Top 8 Favorite Authors: Hansen, Contributing Editor

I’m a classics kind of girl. I’ve had the same eight favorite authors since I was 18.

Hansen November 30, 2012 21 Comments
Literature

Lez Liberty Lit #8: I Never Thanked You, Batman

In this week’s Liberty Lit: a new book vending machine, Google poetry, queer writers of colour, free short fiction, a review of a Clueless spin-off novel and more.

Ryan Yates November 29, 2012 8 Comments
Book Lists

My Top 8 Favorite Authors: Ali, Contributing Editor

“We are such stuff as dreams are made on / And our little life is rounded with a sleep.”

A.E. Osworth November 28, 2012 35 Comments
LGBT Book Reviews

Poetry is Dead’s Queer Issue Speaks Directly To Your Heart

Despite its tongue-in-cheek name, Poetry is Dead Magazine’s Queer Issue is pleasant evidence to the contrary.

fonseca November 26, 2012 9 Comments
Literature

Things I Read That I Love #51: More Casual Than Real Life

Topics include alcohol, Barack Obama’s twitter account, LIARS, Grace Paley, competitive eating, reading in bars, pretrial prison detention, Joan Didion and Magic The Gathering!

Riese November 23, 2012 13 Comments
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