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Things I Read That I Love #336: The Brat Pack, Buying Sperm, Conversational AI and Streaming Wars

Annie Hamilton befriends Tavi Gevinson and gets unhinged about it, the future of streaming, literary it-girls, MTV’s “The Real World,”…

Riese

Jun 28, 2024

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Things I Read That I Love #335: Big Pants, the Disney Adult-Industrial Complex, Fancy Dorms and Flo

Andrea Long Chu on the critic and her publics, Rich Juzwiak on quitting, Caity Weaver…

Riese

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Mar 15, 2024

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Things I Read That I Love #334: Group Chats, Polycules, Data Free Disney, Iron Claws and Pretty Faces

Patricia Lockwood meets the pope, Leslie Jamison has a baby and gets divorced. Also: going…

Riese

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Feb 9, 2024

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Things I Read That I Love #331: To Live In a Theme Park Without Even Realizing It

Topics include romance scammers, Keke Palmer, the migrant ship, Lorrie Moore, affirmative action, the streaming…

Riese

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Jul 14, 2023

Two girlfriends hanging out in urban apartment

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Things I Read That I Love #330: Titanic, Top Chef, Jeopardy, Libraries, Marvel, BookTok and the Fake Sherlock

Topics include a Top Chef oral history, the fake Sherlock, lost Jeopardy tapes, the Costa…

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Jun 23, 2023

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Things I Read That I Love #335: Big Pants, the Disney Adult-Industrial Complex, Fancy Dorms and Flo

Andrea Long Chu on the critic and her publics, Rich Juzwiak on quitting, Caity Weaver on Flo from Progressive. Also: the re-ascendence of large pants, Kowloon Walled City, High Point…

Riese —

Mar 15, 2024

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Things I Read That I Love #334: Group Chats, Polycules, Data Free Disney, Iron Claws and Pretty Faces

Patricia Lockwood meets the pope, Leslie Jamison has a baby and gets divorced. Also: going to Disneyworld but not giving up your data, the reborn doll community, the Iron Claw,…

Riese —

Feb 9, 2024

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Things I Read That I Love #331: To Live In a Theme Park Without Even Realizing It

Topics include romance scammers, Keke Palmer, the migrant ship, Lorrie Moore, affirmative action, the streaming problem, Lorrie Moore, the Barbie IP and more!

Riese —

Jul 14, 2023

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gabrielle korn

Station Eleven, Parable of the Sower, Severance, and How High We Go in the Dark

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Embracing the Dark Pleasures of Dystopian Literature: 10 Novels That Inspired Me To Write My Own

“I worked on this book between 2019 and 2023, years not exactly known for… incredible progress. In many ways, letting myself slip into another, imaginary world — albeit a worse…

Gabrielle Korn —

Jan 16, 2024

gothic book club puzzle + Plain Bad Heroines

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Consider This: Listening to an Audiobook While Doing a Jigsaw Puzzle

I have unlocked a new level of intellectual heaven: listening to an audiobook while doing a jigsaw puzzle.

Riese —

Jan 11, 2024

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literary fiction

Alice Sadie Celine by Sarah Blakely-Cartwright

lgbt book reviews

“Alice Sadie Celine” Is a Delectable Queer Sex Novel With a Wicked Sense of Humor

If you’re less into slow-burn and more into the narrative equivalent of a wildfire, this one’s for you.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya —

Jan 9, 2024

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short stories

Every Drop Is a Man's Nightmare by Megan Kamalei Kakimoto

lgbt book reviews

The U.S. Occupation of Hawaiʻi Haunts the Pages of This Extraordinary Short Fiction Collection

It’s beautifully constructed from start to finish, and while the stories will get under your skin, it’s a welcome invasion.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya —

Jan 5, 2024

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gabrielle korn

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“Here Are All My Favorite Delusions, I Hope You Like Them”: Talking to Gabrielle Korn About Queer Dystopian Novel “Yours For The Taking”

“I feel like so much of the theme of ‘straight women idealizing women’ just came from my dark times in women’s media. This idea that if you have a space…

Riese —

Jan 4, 2024

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poems

Survival Takes a Wild Imagination by Fariha Róisín

lgbt book reviews

“Survival Takes a Wild Imagination” Shows How the Labor of Liberation Makes Us Better

Through her newest collection of poetry, Fariha Róisín explores her experiences as a queer, Muslim, Bangladeshi woman trying to heal from a childhood of abuse and the pain of generational…

Stef Rubino —

Jan 2, 2024

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end-of-year-list

AS 2023: Best Queer Novels. Family Meal by Bryan Washington, Mrs. S by K. Patrick, and All-Night Pharmacy by Ruth Madievsky

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The Top 12 Queer Novels of 2023

I thought it would be fun to do a ranked list of the 12 queer novels that stood out to me this year. And by “fun,” I mean pleasurably agonizing.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya —

Dec 30, 2023

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trans book

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Short Fiction Collection “Girlfriends” Presents Expansive, Nonlinear View of Transition and Dysphoria

The trans women in Girlfriends often find themselves stuck in the spiderweb of someone else’s drama or self-implosion.

Nic Anstett —

Dec 28, 2023

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kristen arnett

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In ‘Stop Me if You’ve Heard This One,’ It’s Clowns vs. Capitalism

Arnett’s work is a reminder of something we often shy away from: What is the point of experiencing all of the pains of the human condition if we can’t, at some point, get a good laugh in about it?

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Stop Me If You've Heard This One by Kristen Arnett

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Clowning Around With Kristen Arnett

“How many scenes have had people work something out at a diner? Can’t that happen at an Olive Garden?”

Drew Burnett Gregory —

Mar 11, 2025

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Yellowjackets

Queer Books To Read if You Love ‘Yellowjackets’

Feminist fairytales, girlhood horror, and genre-bending books for the feral gays hungry for more Yellowjackets-adjacent stories!

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya —

Mar 6, 2025

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most anticipated queer books

Our Most Anticipated Queer Books for March 2025

New Torrey Peters! A debut novel from Emily St. James! Queer, Black poetry collections! March is gonna be a great month for LGBTQ literature.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya —

Mar 1, 2025

climate change

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Maybe Gabrielle Korn Set Her Queer Dystopian Climate Novel ‘The Shutouts’ Too Far in the Future

“I tried not to do that. I tried to keep the most important thing the story and the storytelling, because I think it gets annoying when you have an agenda.…

Riese —

Feb 17, 2025

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Things I Read That I Love #336: The Brat Pack, Buying Sperm, Conversational AI and Streaming Wars

LITERATURE

Things I Read That I Love #335: Big Pants, the Disney Adult-Industrial Complex, Fancy Dorms and Flo

LITERATURE

Things I Read That I Love #334: Group Chats, Polycules, Data Free Disney, Iron Claws and Pretty Faces

LITERATURE

Things I Read That I Love #331: To Live In a Theme Park Without Even Realizing It

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Things I Read That I Love #330: Titanic, Top Chef, Jeopardy, Libraries, Marvel, BookTok and the Fake Sherlock

literature

Things I Read That I Love #335: Big Pants, the Disney Adult-Industrial Complex, Fancy Dorms and Flo

literature

Things I Read That I Love #334: Group Chats, Polycules, Data Free Disney, Iron Claws and Pretty Faces

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Things I Read That I Love #331: To Live In a Theme Park Without Even Realizing It

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