Queer characters in The Handmaid’s Tale, David Levithan receives Chicago Tribune Young Adult Literary Award, and more…… read more

Gay Directors, Gay Films? is new comparative study of five well-known living gay directors… read more

“Icons aren’t built up on their own words but through the din of a room […]”… read more

“I’ve always had little patience for people who have no idea what’s going on in the world. I’d say read five newspapers a day and you’re never boring.”… read more

With the casting of Christian Grey, for the upcoming film adaptation of the novel Fifty Shades of Grey, in disarray, Vulture reached out to filmmaker and author John Waters to ask his opinion on who should be cast in the role:… read more

A congratulations is in order for 2007 Lambda Literary Fellow Justin Torres who has just been announced as an honoree for this year’s 5 Under 35—a National Book Foundation program which “honors five young fiction writers selected by past National Book Award Winners and Finalists.” Torres, a Stegner Fellow and graduate of the Iowa Writers’… read more

John Waters hitchhiking, a gay superhero gets married, banned books, and other LGBT news……. read more

“I am neurotic. But at the same time, I’m quite happy being neurotic. I think you must figure out a way, as Freud said, to turn hysterical misery into common unhappiness.” John Waters is primarily known as a filmmaker (e.g, Pink Flamingos, Female Trouble, Hairspray), but he has also been an exhibited fine artist since the early… read more

Judge a Book by its Cover? In a world saturated by visual noise, the book cover is perhaps the single most important piece of marketing collateral worth investing in. At cover meetings editors, art directors, and sales VP’s fawn over fonts, discuss paper choices, embossing, image rights, and foil stamping. Authors rarely have final say,… read more

While drafting an introductory letter to Johnny Mathis in his new collection of writing, Role Models, John Waters thinks: “Explain what? A role model? Someone who has led a life even more explosive than mine, a person whose exaggerated fame or notoriety has made him or her somehow smarter or more glamorous than I could… read more