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Allen Ginsberg & Arthur Russell in Suburbia: Read an Excerpt from Kevin Killian’s Fascination

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December 11, 2018

“A driver brought them out from Manhattan in a town car, to the university campus off of Long Island Expressway Exit 62. And that’s a lot of exits.”… read more

Read This! A Contemporary Queer Twist on 'Frankenstein' by Marshall Thornton

Edit Team
October 23, 2018

To celebrate the Halloween season, we are sharing an excerpt from Never Rest… read more

Read This! An Excerpt from Nepantla: An Anthology Dedicated to Queer Poets of Color

Edit Team
May 05, 2018

Released this month by Nightboat Books, this print edition celebrates the diversity within the queer poetry community… read more

Read This! An Excerpt From the Coming-of-Age Graphic Novel 'Bloom'

Edit Team
May 02, 2018

This coming-of-age love story mixes the tumult of young love with the rigors and joys of baking… read more

Read This! An Excerpt From the Riveting Novel 'Dodging and Burning'

Edit Team
April 25, 2018

“In a small Virginia town still reeling from World War II, a photograph of a beautiful murdered woman propels three young people into the middle of a far-reaching mystery.”… read more

Read This! An Excerpt from Judy Wieder's 'Random Events Tend To Cluster'

Edit Team
March 20, 2018

“Part memoir, part exploration of extraordinary and parallel lives, Wieder’s story unfolds alongside the tumultuous events of 20th Century America.”… read more

Read This! An Excerpt From 'Meanwhile, Elsewhere: Science Fiction and Fantasy from Transgender Writers'

Edit Team
February 20, 2018

“It was Friday night and Laura was summoning the devil. Because she was manic tonight and she thought, why not?”… read more

Read This! An Excerpt From Patrick Nathan's 'Some Hell'

Edit Team
February 06, 2018

Some Hell is a harrowing novel about a gay teen’s coming of age… read more

Read Ariel Gore's Hallucinatory Examination of Queerness and Motherhood

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September 13, 2017

“When I was born, my mother was so horrified to be handed a female baby that she took three months to name me. My birth certificate just says ‘Gore Girl.'”… read more

Read an Excerpt from John Boyne's 'The Heart's Invisible Furies'

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August 27, 2017

Filtered through the life of one gay man, the novel is an expansive look at Ireland in the 1940s… read more


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