“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

“Every boy he had ever loved had been either a musician or a drug addict. Usually both. […] But it kept to certain themes in his life, of stubbornness, of going longer, harder, of always being the last to leave the party.”… read more

Spunk [arts] Magazine, founded in New York City in 2003, is an art journal specializing in original artwork and memoir-style writing… read more

The novel is a hothouse tale of sexual gamesmanship… read more

“Barbara marched up to the reference librarian with Shier in tow and requested books about homosexuals, a term she had discovered in her father’s medical dictionary. Returning home after a day of research, Barbara matter-of-factly informed her mother: ‘I am a homosexual.'”… read more

This month, Korima Press is releasing Lay Your Sleeping Head, an imaginative reworking of writer Michael Nava’s classic mystery novel The Little Death. Nava’s introduction for the new novel reveals the history behind the creation of the protagonist Henry Rios… read more

Here Comes The Sun  maps a family’s struggle to gain independence and freedom in a world where both don’t come easy… read more

Jazz Moon is an evocative novel that maps one character’s journey of self-discovery during the height of the Jazz Age… read more

“There were those who didn’t think a black lesbian vampire story—benevolent or not—was such a good idea politically.”… read more

“Although Guy was thirty-five he was still working as a model, and certain of his more ironic and cultured friends called him, as the dying Proust had been called by Colette, ‘our young man.'”… read more