I imagine it is bad form to start off talking about a book by bad-mouthing its genre, but I felt the need to disclose, if only to emphasize how damn good Everett Maroon’s new young adult novel is: I don’t much care for YA. Well, at least I thought I didn’t. Let me explain…. read more

In his new book, Real Man Adventures, novelist T Cooper turns his searing lens and sharp wit toward himself to capture something of the elusive experience of what it means to be a man, more specifically, a man who was assigned female at birth. … read more

I first saw Sister Spit perform in Portland, Oregon in the early 2000s. Michelle Tea and her gritty gang of dyke writers and poets were legends. Everyone had a story about the crew, who jacked off to what zine, who had gotten high with who before getting sober, or what punk houses had hosted the tour in years previous…… read more

“You rarely see gay characters who are living in rural areas in contemporary fiction. Not all queers want to live in cities. People stay in small towns for different reasons, but sometimes they stay because this is home, because they love the land, they feel this deep connection.”

Author Carter Sickels took some time to talk with Lambda about his debut novel, The Evening Hour (Bloomsbury), his writing process, tenderness between men, and coming out as trans. … read more

Anna Joy Springer’s Tinfoil Elephants, Guernica Magazine, Gary Indiana Naked and More News From Around the Web…… read more

2011 Emerging Writers Retreat Fellows On behalf of the Staff and Board of Trustees of The Lambda Literary Foundation, we introduce to you the 2011 Class of the Writers Retreat for Emerging LGBT Voices. This summer from August 6-13, the forty-two talented emerging writers listed below, representing every region of the United States and traveling… read more