What to Read When You Can’t Invite Your Queer Family Over for Dinner
Miah Jeffra shares a reading list to celebrate THE FABULOUS EKPHRASTIC FANTASTIC!.
...moreMiah Jeffra shares a reading list to celebrate THE FABULOUS EKPHRASTIC FANTASTIC!.
...morePerhaps as women we are always trying to record the gaze. Marginalized people are often asked to validate our distrust, trepidation, and fear.
...more” I think when you really love something, you notice the minutiae. It’s partly how you make something your own.”
...moreDanzy Senna discusses New People, inhabiting her characters without judging them, playing with the reality and surreality of identity, and pushing against traditional story arcs.
...moreOver at Electric Literature, Ryan Chapman interviews Teddy Wayne, whose third novel, Loner, seems to effortlessly blow by the clichés of the campus novel: as Ryan calls it, “the writer’s equivalent of the pop ballad.” Wayne begins by citing “non-campus” novels as influences—The Talented Mr. Riply, Lolita, Notes from Underground—and he’s clearly transcended college culture […]
...moreCarol is a powerful woman with enviable self-knowledge, effortlessly creating an erotic, sensual ideal of herself as a covert spectacle for queer midcentury women.
...moreProbably more than anything else, sheer curiosity propels readers through [Silvina Ocampo’s] stories.
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