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!
Topics include 30 Rock, Mary Gaitskill, CES, The NRA, Perez Hilton, Kickstarter, Aileen Wuornos, Perez Hilton, Amy Bishop and so much more!
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.
This week in literature: the Lesbian Romance Drinking Game, keeping a notebook, diverse queer reading lists, ruining art and creative inspiration.
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!
“We were thirteen years old, and these stories confirmed our suspicions that the world was a cruel, sad place, riddled with surprise tragedies and untimely deaths.”
There are so many different ways to celebrate. You could have a Virginia Woolf dinner and costume party! You could smoke a pipe until your throat hurts! You could speak with a British accent for a day (unless you’re already British; then it’s too easy and not as much fun).
Topics include the horrors of high school, lady skateboarders, Marquee, older parenthood, wine, emotional men, Lindsay Lohan, sexual violence in Vietnam and more!
On art, politics, and the complexities of the closet: “The general idea of being in the closet is what urged me to find an alternative world.”
This week in literature: reading writers you hate, choosing your own adventure, evolving libraries, an interview with Eileen Myles, Gertrude Stein and more.
Topics include Good Will Hunting, the Zumba Instructor, holding gun stores accountable, the arcade, the facebook bus, Kozol, losing your library, Suze Orman and so much more!
Davis County, UT school board realizes that maybe letting books help teach students’ tolerance about same-sex families is actually an awesome idea.
If you enjoy Shakespeare, other classical texts, and poetry, your brain has superpowers.
This tiny book is anything but your mother’s health education book.
Topics include mass murder, online dating in 2003, 9/11, anorexia, how Wal-Mart kills people, death of a bad dad, life after a breakup and so much more!
In this week’s Liberty Lit: reading a book a day, heroines, books that feature Asian lesbians, bookstore cats and more.
Topics include snow removal in Montreal, homesteading, faux-survivalism, Honey Boo-Boo, sexual violence in India, temps, Cambodia, AIDS, and so much more!
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.
Topics include River Phoenix, Sister Outsider Metalhead, poverty & a college education, not being an asshole, gun control, Alcatraz and so much more!
I like weird books, and these people write them.