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lez liberty lit

link roundup

literature

Lez Liberty Lit: Library Sex

The people who fantasize about library sex, excerpts and fall reading lists galore, Black-owned bookstores and radical bookstores, pandemic creativity and more.

Ryan Yates —

Sep 10, 2020

lez liberty lit

link roundup

literature

Lez Liberty Lit: Boredom Banana Bread

The relationships between boredom, work, art, pandemic, and banana bread; the bourgeois romance of pandemic isolation; read books about “disreputable women” by women writers and more.

Ryan Yates —

Aug 27, 2020

lez liberty lit

link roundup

literature

Lez Liberty Lit: Traditional Vocabulary Is Defunct

Raven Leilani’s Luster and the new vocabulary for morality, how lesbian pulp fiction made one essayist feel normal, a ton of new memoirs and more.

Ryan Yates —

Aug 13, 2020

lez liberty lit

link roundup

literature

Lez Liberty Lit: Values-Driven Art Making

The past and future of trans narratives, a new Black-owned bookstore in the Twin Cities, updates on everyone’s pandemic diaries and more.

Ryan Yates —

Jul 16, 2020

novel

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literature

Rosalie Knecht’s Vera Kelly Is Not A Mystery, But Is a Gay Noir Must-Read

There’s another kind of revolution happening within this sequel, and that’s where Knecht really blows the doors off the noir genre.

Kate Gorton —

Jul 6, 2020

malinda lo

novel

literature

Check Out the Cover & New Excerpt of Malinda Lo’s Forthcoming “Last Night at the Telegraph Club”!

Malinda Lo’s work has been incredibly relevant and sustaining to this site and this community, and her voice on current leaps forward in lesbian cultural production remains unparalleled. Which is…

Rachel —

Jun 29, 2020

Lists/Top 10s

No Justice No Pride

book lists

Resistance 101 Reading List: A Crash-Course for Aspiring Revolutionaries

You’re joining a fight that is by no means new, check out this list of books to make sure you come correct to the next rally.

Danielle —

Jun 9, 2020

read a f-cking book

book features

6 Queer Authors on What It’s Like to Launch Their Books in a Pandemic

If you’re looking to escape reality for a little while, look no further than this year’s absolute bumper crop of queer novels. As late spring and summer literary events are…

Lisa A.C. Ryan —

May 13, 2020

autostraddle book club

octavia butler

book features

Read a F*cking Book Club: Octavia Butler’s “Parable of the Sower” Offers Persistence, Painstaking Reality

We finished reading “Parable of the Sower” by Octavia Butler. At its core, the book is about embracing truth and change, which is especially true now — when our world…

Ari —

Apr 10, 2020

lez liberty lit

link roundup

literature

Lez Liberty Lit: Reading Weather

Supporting small booksellers online, Samantha Irby on writing, reading or not reading books about pandemics, why it’s time to keep a journal and more.

Ryan Yates —

Apr 9, 2020

lez liberty lit

link roundup

literature

Lez Liberty Lit: The Emergency Library

1.4 million free books, virtual museum tours, maintaining a creative practice (but maybe not starting that coronavirus novel) and more.

Ryan Yates —

Mar 26, 2020

autostraddle book club

octavia butler

book features

Read A F*cking Book Club: Octavia Butler’s “Parable of the Sower”

Come get dystopian and read “Parable of the Sower” with us!

Ari —

Mar 19, 2020