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‘Cold Feet’ by Karen Pullen

Posted on March 6, 2013 by in Mystery, Reviews

The novel Cold Feet by Karen Pullen is the first in a series of Stella Lavender Mysteries. Written in the first person, the story of Cold Feet is primarily seen and told through the eyes of North Carolina Special Agent Stella Lavender. Stella works as an undercover drug agent, usually at night and in dark, dangerous places. As the book opens, she is looking forward to attending an upscale outdoor wedding with her grandmother, Fern, an artist commissioned to illustrate a book cover for the mother of the groom. The ceremony is held at Rosscairn Castle Bed and Breakfast, built in 1915 as a replica of a Scottish castle.  (more…)

LLF Announces Finalists of the 25th Annual Lambda Literary Awards

Posted on March 6, 2013 by in Foundation Updates

25th Annual Lambda Literary Award Finalists Announced 

Early Bird Gala Tickets On-Sale Now

Finalists for the Lambda Literary Awards were announced today by the Lambda Literary Foundation (LLF) in Los Angeles. Books from major mainstream publishers, from academic presses, from both long-established and new LGBT publishers, as well as from emerging publish-on-demand technologies, make up the 687 submissions for the “Lammys.” The finalists were selected from a record number of submissions, and, for the first time, the judges were encouraged to choose more finalists in those categories that drew a large number of submissions.

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New in March: Luis Negrón, Barrie Jean Borich, Eloise Klein Healy, and David Bergman

Posted on March 3, 2013 by in Features

New Month! New books! March is here and with it an array of exciting new LGBT titles—ranging from academic studies to poetry.
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International Study on LGBT Reading Preferences

Posted on February 6, 2013 by in Foundation Updates

What type of books do LGBT people like to read? How and where do they find the books that they like to read? Lambda Literary Foundation (LLF) and St. Cloud State University Collection Management Librarian Rachel Wexelbaum are conducting an international study on the book reading preferences of 21st century LGBT people to help answer these questions. (more…)

New in February: Hilton Als, Guy Mark Foster, Radclyffe, and Annie Rachele Lanzillotto

Posted on February 4, 2013 by in Features

New Month! New books! February is here and with it a plethora of new LGBT titles—ranging from cultural criticism to romance.

Pornography and feminism walk hand and hand in The Feminist Porn Book, a new collection from Feminist Press. Edited by Tristan Taormino, Constance Penley, Celine Parrenas Shimizu and Mireille Miller-Young, this collection brings together pornographers, artists, and academics to investigate pornography’s place in the feminist movement.

From the publisher:

The Feminist Porn Book brings together for the first time writings by feminists in the adult industry and research by feminist porn scholars. This book investigates not only how feminists understand pornography, but also how feminists do porn—that is, direct, act in, produce, and consume one of the world’s most lucrative and growing industries. With original contributions by Susie Bright, Candida Royalle, Betty Dodson, Nina Hartley, Buck Angel, and more, The Feminist Porn Book updates the debates of the porn wars of the 1980s, which sharply divided the women’s movement, and identifies pornography as a form of expression and labor in which women and other minorities produce power and pleasure.

Mscweeny’s is publishing, White Girls, the long-awaited new book by noted New Yorker critic and firebrand Hilton Als.

From Mscweeny’s:

[...] Hilton Als’s first book since “The Women” fourteen years ago, finds one of The New Yorker’s boldest cultural critics deftly weaving together his brilliant analyses of literature, art, and music with fearless insights on race, gender, and history. The result is an extraordinary, complex portrait of “white girls,” as Als dubs them—an expansive but precise category that encompasses figures as diverse as Truman Capote and Louise Brooks, Malcolm X and Flannery O’Connor. In pieces that hairpin between critique and meditation, fiction and non-fiction, high culture and low, the theoretical and the deeply personal, Als presents a stunning portrait of a writer by way of his subjects, and an invaluable guide to the culture of our time.

This month sees the release of a new short story collection The Rest of Us by Guy Mark Foster.

From Tincture/Lethe Press:

[a] collection of short stories that embrace the breadth and depth of being a gay African-American, [this book] approaches life from the angst of youth and first love to the familiarities of cruising and romancing later in life. The boys and men in Guy Mark Foster’s tales refuse to be bound by the heavy chains of oppressive religion in the family household or racism encountered on campus. And this strength will be needed to face the passions stirring in their chests, their bedrooms, their lives.

February is the time for love (It’s heart-shaped candies consumption time!) and to help usher in all those feelings of adoration Cleis Press is releasing The Best Lesbian Romance 2013 edited by renowned writer and publisher Radclyffe:

Radclyffe, the Best Lesbian Romance series legendary editor and a bestselling romance writer herself, says it best: “Love and romance may defy simple definition, but every story in this collection speaks to the universal thread that binds lovers everywhere—possibility.” In Radclyffe’s own “Staying Power,” a farm boi falls for an older, blond equestrienne at the horse ranch. A tryst with a gorgeous masked stranger at an “Exotic Masquerade” boosts the confidence and desire of a married couple in L.T. Marie’s charming and surprising tale. Seeing and being seen is the subject of Catherine Paulssen’s “Life Drawing,” in which a ravishing artist’s model turns looking into longing and perhaps something more. Heart-melting love stories from Cheyenne Blue, Andrea Dale, Charlotte Dare, Sacchi Green, Anna Meadows and more. These are tales to read and fall in love by, all year long.

Also this month, expect new releases from poet L. Lamar Wilson, artist Annie Rachele Lanzillotto, and biographer Patrick McGilligan.

As always, if we missed an author or book, or if you have a book coming out next month, please email us.

 

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Don Weise: Magnus Rising

Posted on February 3, 2013 by in Interviews

“I think debates over what makes a book great are largely among writers and people who teach literature. The rest of us I don’t think really care. I’d say we’re more interested in whether we connect with a book…”

A renowned stalwart in the publishing industry, Don Weise has over two decades worth of publishing experience, most of which has been dedicated to publishing LGBT literature. He’s served as Publisher of Alyson Books and was the Senior Editor at Carroll & Graf Publishers. Wiese also sits on the board of the Lambda Literary Foundation. In 2010, Wiese started his own LGBT publishing house, Magnus Books. Since its inception, Magnus has published books by an assortment of iconic authors, such as Samuel Delany, Urvashi Vaid, Keith Boykin, and Edmund White.

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New in January: Nicole J. Georges, Lillian Faderman, Michael Rumaker, and Michael Klein

Posted on January 3, 2013 by in Features, News

New year! New books!

Not sure who to go to for advice when you have issues concerning  family and love? Well, you can always reach out to infamous conservative radio show host Dr. Laura Schlessinger for a helpful hand.

In the new graphic memoir Calling Dr. Laura (Mariner Books), artist Nicole Georges chronicles the stress of dealing with long kept family secrets, her coming out experience, and what can happen when you seek support from the most unlikely of sources. (more…)

Support the Lambda Literary Foundation with a Year-End Tax-Deductible Donation

Posted on December 27, 2012 by in Foundation Updates

Support the Lambda Literary Foundation Today with a Year-End Tax-Deductible Donation by December 31!

As the end of the year approaches here at Lambda Literary, we reflect on our achievements of 2012 all of which have been made possible because of you, our dedicated supporters. (more…)

Daniel Mendelsohn: Beyond Borders, Beyond Identities

Posted on December 25, 2012 by in Features, Interviews

 ”I learn things when people write intelligently about my books. That’s what you want as a writer, you want to be taken seriously and you want to be read intelligently. You can learn from an intelligent review—not necessarily a ‘positive’ review.”

Waiting for the Barbarians , the latest collection of essays by Daniel Mendelsohn, covers a broad swatch of the writer’s critical territory. Having established both his contemporary voice and classical eye over the past twenty years, Mendelsohn presents many of his recent thoughtful and brow-raising critiques in this single volume published by The New York Review Books—dissecting the nostalgia that vaulted Mad Men into the sphere of cultural phenomenon, chronicling the hubris that felled Julie Taymor’s tenure at the helm of Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, and sectioning these selections under the headings “Spectacles, ” “Classica,” “Creative Writing, ” and “Private Lives.” (more…)

New in December: T Cooper, Tony Fletcher, Jim Elledge, David Groff, and Hilary Sloin

Posted on December 2, 2012 by in Features, News

December brings with it an assortment of fantastic books!

Sullen Smiths fans have reason to rejoice this month, Crown Archetype is releasing a comprehensive overview of the legendary alternative rock group. A Light That Never Goes Out, by writer Tony Fletcher, provides an in-depth look at both the history and cultural impact of the iconic band.

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