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111 Queer Books Recommended by Librarians, Booksellers, and Authors

111 Queer Books Recommended by Librarians, Booksellers, and Authors

For Your Pride (and Year-Long) Reading Pleasure

By Literary Hub | June 24, 2022

Sex, Freedom, Cruising, and Consent: A Conversation with Garth Greenwell

Sex, Freedom, Cruising, and Consent: A Conversation with Garth Greenwell

Andrew Sciallo Talks to the Author of What Belongs to You and Cleanness About Queer Spaces (and the Awakenings Therein)

By Andrew Sciallo | June 24, 2022

Repetition Ruins a Narrative: On Trying to Create Amid the Sameness of Pandemic Parenting

Repetition Ruins a Narrative: On Trying to Create Amid the Sameness of Pandemic Parenting

Rosalie Knecht Considers the Narrative Machines That Power Fiction and Therapy

By Rosalie Knecht | June 23, 2022

“A War I Saw Unfolding Firsthand.” Héctor Tobar on the 30th Anniversary of the LA Riots

“A War I Saw Unfolding Firsthand.” Héctor Tobar on the 30th Anniversary of the LA Riots

In Conversation with Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan on Fiction/Non/Fiction

By Fiction Non Fiction | June 23, 2022

Alex Kiester on Obsessing Over Her Mother’s (Eventual) Death

Alex Kiester on Obsessing Over Her Mother’s (Eventual) Death

“Maybe the only thing death will ever be able to teach us about is life.”

By Alex Kiester | June 23, 2022

They Say It Only Takes One: My Year of Trying to Get an Agent, and Get Pregnant

They Say It Only Takes One: My Year of Trying to Get an Agent, and Get Pregnant

Emily Lackey on Learning to Let Go of How She Thought It Would Look

By Emily Lackey | June 22, 2022

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Of Wazhazhe Land and Language: The Ongoing Project of Ancestral Work

By Chelsea T. Hicks | June 22, 2022

To the Stranger Who Returned My Lost Notebook

By Leigh N. Gallagher | June 21, 2022

After Two Pregnancy Losses, I Wrote the Book I Needed to Read

By Anna Hogeland | June 21, 2022

How the Women in My Family Fought for Their Daughters' Education

How the Women in My Family Fought for Their Daughters' Education

Zhuqing Li on the Wisdom of Her Mother: “Knowledge is something no one can take away from you.”

By Zhuqing Li | June 21, 2022

<em>The Chimpanzee Whisperer</em> by Stany Nyandwi and David Blissett, Read by Dion Graham

The Chimpanzee Whisperer by Stany Nyandwi and David Blissett, Read by Dion Graham

A Marvelous Pairing of Audiobook and Narrator

By Behind the Mic | June 21, 2022

On Writing (and Not Writing) About Mutton Biryani

On Writing (and Not Writing) About Mutton Biryani

Nandita Dinesh on Family Recipes and What Goes Unsaid

By Nandita Dinesh | June 17, 2022

Why Is It I Keep Seeing the Same Painting Everywhere I Look?

Why Is It I Keep Seeing the Same Painting Everywhere I Look?

A Tale of Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon (in English and Italian)

By Gianluca Didino | June 17, 2022

Finding the One Book My Young Son Would Sit Still To

Finding the One Book My Young Son Would Sit Still To

Kevin Koczwara on the Genius of Maurice Sendak and Reading Where the Wild Things Are

By Kevin Koczwara | June 17, 2022

Remembering the Potential and Compassion of a Friend Lost to Gun Violence

Remembering the Potential and Compassion of a Friend Lost to Gun Violence

Will Jawando on the Life and Death of His Friend Kalfani

By Will Jawando | June 17, 2022

All Tomorrow’s Fables: How Do We Write About This Vanishing World?

All Tomorrow’s Fables: How Do We Write About This Vanishing World?

Daegan Miller on The World As We Knew It and New Kinds of Nature Writing

By Daegan Miller | June 16, 2022

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