“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!
Flung Out of Space: Amy Feltman’s ‘Willa & Hesper’ is a Complicated Queer Love Story for Our Time
A sprawling epic of internal growth, sparked by a love story.