If you’re around the bookish internet a lot, especially if you watch booktube, you’ve probably seen this tag going around. I have never done a tag, and I wasn’t tagged by anyone, but I had the week off from my day job and wanted to reflect on my favorite reads of the year- and give them […]
The Queerest of Joys: A Conversation with Poet Marisa Crane
Pride month special, y’all! This June has been a real highlight for me, writing- and reading-wise. I had 2 bookish pieces published (including an epic Pride reading list I’m kind of proud of), and I got to talk to Nicole Dennis-Benn about her new (very big-deal and very great) novel Patsy. And the good good […]
API Heritage Month, Short Story Month, and Random Reads Just Because! It’s a May Reading Wrap-Up
Hello, I am alive and still reading and reviewing books! Life keeps getting more hectic, it seems, but it’s not July yet so here I am with my May wrap up! May was API Heritage Month, so I made a point to read several Asian/Asian America authors in celebration of that and as an excuse […]
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April Reading Wrap-Up and Really Good Rec’s
April ended two weeks ago (?!), but like all of us out here in this world, I’m somehow busier than I expect so I’m a little behind on, well, everything. But I did read a lot last month, so I’m here with a wrap-up for you! April is National Poetry Month, and I read a […]
Steamy, Dreamy and Gay: Mostly Dead Things by Kristen Arnett
“I often wondered why we couldn’t talk about the present, why the past held all the promise while the future sat before us like stagnant water.” (CW: suicide, light spoilers) Kristen Arnett is one of my favorite people to follow in the internet. Though Mostly Dead Things (Tin House, 2019) is her debut novel, she’s […]
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Memoir March and Other Love Stories
March went by so fast, how did that happen?! I had a great month. I had some articles published; I went to AWP and saw Kristin Stewart *and* got a selfie with Melissa Febos (bless her gracious heart for dealing with my fangirling), both of which made my gay life; I heard T Kira Madden […]
Love and Memoir: On T Kira Madden’s ‘Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls’ and Melissa Febos’ ‘Abandon Me’
Don’t miss this one, it is magic!
February/Black History Month Reading Wrap-Up
Black History Month 2019 by the books: classics, fiction, nonfiction, dystopia, romance, all the things!
Manic Pixie Dream Boy: James Baldwin’s ‘Giovanni’s Room’
If there is one takeaway I got from James Baldwin’s 1956 classic novel Giovanni’s Room, it’s that internalized homophobia kills.
Unblemished Self: Esmé Weijun Wang’s ‘The Collected Schizophrenias’
The Collected Schizophrenias is a memoir and a sociological exploration, an inside story and an academic examination.