The Narrow Door is a memoir but it is also a map. It is a map of two relationships, mostly of the titular friendship… read more

“Iʼm not sure that we as writers actually owe our dead anything other than to make them interesting—not necessarily friendly or nice but interesting.”… read more

“He has his feelers out. His antennae are raw.” Paul Lisicky is the author of Lawnboy,a novel, and Famous Builder, a memoir. He has received awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the James Michener/Copernicus Society, the Henfield Foundation, and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. His new novel, The Burning House, just… read more

A Photo Gallery One of the biggest highlights of AWP 2011 took place on Thursday night at the HRC Equality Forum. Organized by 2010 Lambda Fellow, Ilse Bendorf, the “3 Dollar Bill: Queer AWP Reading” included rapid-fire readings by some of our favorite poets, novelists and memoirists. Journalist Selena Simmons-Duffin shared this photo diary…. read more