“I love including the small details of how we lived then, capturing the details of our lives that might otherwise be lost.”… read more

Catullus, the classic romantic among ancient poets, is also the go-to source for evidence of Roman sexual obscenity… read more

“Many of us discovered our first lesbian pleasures through the cinema—I certainly did.”… read more

“Before social media, going out to a club was like going to church. Hence the title Christ Like, which confused many people who thought it was a religious book.”… read more

“Why sit down to write about people and places you’re not interested in? That’s just not worth it to me. You could be doing literally anything else.”… read more

“Crime novels have always been social novels, addressing problems in society. In that sense, they’ve always been important and always will.”… read more

“Forging a queer identity then—when the word ‘queer’ itself was still an epithet—felt like a dangerously creative and a profoundly political act.”… read more

“The difference between accountability and justice is that accountability is what happens after the trauma, and justice is this idea that there shouldn’t be trauma in the first place. The goal is justice.”… read more

“There are other ways to order the world than what the rules of a language may allow.”… read more

“Growing up gay in the Bible Belt undeniably shaped us, but how deep do Southern roots penetrate our fiction as adults?”… read more