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

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

This is the story of Soloway wanting it and Soloway getting it, and how getting it is not any kind of pot of gold at the end of a rainbow… read more

The story Barnes weaves in this memoir–a story of suicidal desires and success, of what drives siblings apart and could, at turns, bring them back together–is a lyric noir of family instability… read more

“A driver brought them out from Manhattan in a town car, to the university campus off of Long Island Expressway Exit 62. And that’s a lot of exits.”… read more

Part of It, Ariel Schrag’s new collection of short autobiographical comics, follows a series of formative moments in the author’s life from childhood to young adulthood… read more