If texts can be said to have a surface, ‘Jimmy Neurosis’ is superficially a punk-cultural, coming-of-age memoir… read more

Brown White Black is a deep dive into the concept of intersectionality… read more

Out East surveys one man’s maturation… read more

Light Years is a fast-paced coming-of-age tale about growing up gay during the sixties and seventies… read more

My Butch Career is an important narrative of liberation that contributes singularly to the growing body of collective LGBTQ history… read more

In Madden’s hands, the past is present. We can see it, practically hear it, almost touch it… read more

Fascination by Kevin Killian is an engaging and challenging collection of memoirs. The book has already inspired some engaging and challenging commentaries, namely the introduction by poet and novelist Andrew Durbin and a review in the Los Angeles Review of Books by Corley Miller. Both commentaries place Fascination in the New Narrative Movement. Durbin explains… read more

Gerald repurposes the “coming out” narrative to capture the complexities and nuances of being a black gay man…. read more

“For me, theory has never been something that simply accounts for the world, but a form of active engagement that gives rise to other ways of inhabiting and imaging this and other worlds.”… read more

Catherine Guthrie’s Flat is a complex, honest, and tender rendering of how breast cancer changed her understanding of her own body… read more