short stories

regular

short stories

first person

Slow Takes: Casey Plett’s “A Dream of a Woman” and Forgiveness as a Love Story

Often I find myself pushing so hard against the image of trans loneliness that I don’t allow myself to acknowledge the truths that lie within. This book acknowledged them for…

Drew Burnett Gregory —

Jan 6, 2022

interview

sci-fi/fantasy

book features

Charlie Jane Anders on Trans Speculative Fiction and Rethinking ‘Hope’

In this Autostraddle interview, Charlie Jane Anders discusses her new collection of short stories, “Even Greater Mistakes.”

Abbie Jones —

Dec 8, 2021

literary fiction

novel

lgbt book reviews

Celia Laskey’s “Under the Rainbow” Is Dark, Redeeming, and Very Very Queer

Both light and heavy, dark and redeeming, this book is sure to be a comfort and resource for many, as we try to bridge the growing gap between “coastal elites”…

Kate Gorton —

Apr 3, 2020

short stories

lgbt book reviews

Corinne Manning’s “We Had No Rules” Grapples With Queer Assimilation

In their debut story collection We Had No Rules, Corinne Manning makes a rare, generous offer to the queer community: to hold us accountable.

Max Delsohn —

Feb 18, 2020

daniel mallory ortberg

interview

lgbt book reviews

Mal Ortberg’s Creepy New Book Is Coming Out and Mal Is Too

If The Merry Spinster seems almost fixated on gender, it’s because Ortberg began participating in gender therapy and exploring identity while writing it, and “It turns out I’m trans!”

Adrian —

Feb 28, 2018

Carmen Maria Machado

interview

book features

Queers at the End of the World: An Interview with Queer Feminist Fabulist Carmen Maria Machado

Talking about Kristen Stewart, gems, lesbian tropes, Girl Scout crushes, swine flu, the apocalypse and more with award-winning queer writer Carmen Maria Machado.

Aisha —

Feb 19, 2018

Amber Dawn

Ask Your Friendly Neighbourhood Lesbrarian

book lists

8 Queer Speculative Short Story Collections

Love queer speculative fiction but don’t have the time or energy to read novels or series? Then these eight collections and anthologies of queer speculative short fiction are for you!

Casey —

Nov 6, 2017

short stories

trans media representation

lgbt book reviews

No World For Us: Broken Girls and Embodied Trauma in Porpentine’s “Psycho Nymph Exile”

Psycho Nymph Exile is a cartography of brokenness, an answer to the question that no one wants to ask: What happens after exile? What happens to the girls who become…

Kai Cheng —

Mar 7, 2017

read a f-cking book

Roxane Gay

lgbt book reviews

Roxane Gay’s “Difficult Women”: The Necessary Ugliness in Getting There

Gay is far more honest than most about the weird ways we actually solve for love. The necessary ugliness in getting there.

Aisha —

Feb 6, 2017

canada

read a f-cking book

lgbt book reviews

Read A F*cking Book: Canary

Canary, a debut collection of queerish short stories from Nancy Jo Cullen, is all about the everyday. And the weird.

Ryan Yates —

Sep 3, 2013

canada

read a f-cking book

lgbt book reviews

Read a F*cking Canadian Book, Eh: Alex Leslie’s “People Who Disappear”

Leslie’s stories speak to my top interests in life: gay women, the environment, and Canada.

Malaika —

Oct 3, 2012

dorothy allison

Lists/Top 10s

book lists

8 Queerish Short Story Books

So many short story books have at least a little touch of queer — like these from Dorothy Allison, Mary Gaitskill, Thisbe Nissen, Amy Bloom and more!

Riese —

Jan 23, 2012