Lambda Literary Awards 2012: New Books to Love
The 2012 Lambda Literary Award finalists have been announced! I want to read everything.
Things I Read That I Love #17: Robo-Readers
Topics include law school, real estate, a boy who disappeared, Sothebey’s, Tetris and the TED conference!
For Anyone Who Likes Sex, Feelings, Love Letters, Books, All Of The Above
Carmen’s Team Pick: This is a Melissa Gira Grant appreciation post.
Eileen Myles Still Has It: The Autostraddle Review of “Snowflake / different streets”
“Suddenly it all became very clear to me what made the two books different, what brought them together, and what let them stand alone. And suddenly I was crying.”
Things I Read That I Love #16: Enjoy The Silence
Topics include asexuality, the horrors of delivering Chinese food in NYC, Bill Cosby, women’s novels, Lawrence vs. Texas, post-Katrina Louisiana and the history of the infographic!
Things I Read That I Love #15: Better Late Than Never
This week’s topics include sorority girls, raising kids these days, neuroenhancing drugs, online shopping warehouse working conditions and so much more!
A Very Queer Edition of “Things I Read That I Love”
Topics include “The L Word: Not Your Mother’s Lesbians,” “Straight Girl’s Seduction” and “the ambisexual, heteroflexible teen.”
Art Attack! Read A F*cking Book: ‘The Last Nude’
Ellis Avery’s ‘The Last Nude’ is basically girl-on-girl fictional art history. You’re interested in it.
Read a F*cking Book: Sylvia Traymore Morrison’s ‘Almost There, Almost’
This book promises you two things: it was written by a funny person and it was written by a great person. You can’t go wrong.
Things I Read That I Love #14: Your Lucky Day
Today’s topics include audiobooks, long-distance running, exotic pets, murder, Steve Jobs and plagiarism!
J.K. Rowling Is Writing A New Book, Try Not To Pee Your Pants
THESE LETTERS ARE NOT CAPITAL ENOUGH TO ACCURATELY CONVEY MY EXCITEMENT.
I Read “Trans/Love” And It Was Awesome
“I just realized wow, there’s so much to be said from the whole range of perspectives: trans women and trans men and everything in between.”
In Which You May Avail Yourself of Free Advice On How and Why to Write
Rachel’s Team Pick: “When one writes a thing — when you discover and then put it down, which is the essence of discovering it — one is done with it. What people get out of it is none of the writer’s business.”
Things I Read That I Love #12
Topics include Hollister, the U.S. prison system, an amusement park about Charles Dickens, Mitt Romney and AshleyMadison.com!
Autostraddle Book Club #5: We’re Reading The Hunger Games!
Has anyone else not read this yet? No? Just me?
Things I Read That I Love #11
Topics include Bill O’Reilly’s mental health, botched murder investigations in Baltimore, Downton Abbey, Dan Savage, Brandon Teena and the for-profit Phoenix University.
“Cult Classic of Taiwanese Lesbian Literature” Now Excerpted In English, Available Online
Rachel’s Team Pick: “My prototype of a woman was the type who would appear in hallucinations at the last moments of your freezing to death at the top of an icy mountain, a mythical beauty who blurred the line between dreams and reality.”
Things I Read That I Love #10
Today’s topics include living alone, Grey Gardens, Mary Karr, homophobia at an elite private school in Texas, Victoria Jackson and the influence of Pitchfork.
Who Runs the Literary World? These Girls!
Rachel’s Team Pick: Trying to make a list of only 10 badass women writers is really hard.
8 Queerish Short Story Books
So many short story books have at least a little touch of queer — like these from Dorothy Allison, Mary Gaitskill, Thisbe Nissen, Amy Bloom and more!