Last night I engaged in some risky behavior. I started a new novel at bedtime. Yes, I stayed up too late. Yes, this book is off to a great start. I relate to young Lily Hu not understanding her attraction… Read More ›
LGBTQ
Fitz-Greene Halleck – America’s Forgotten Superstar Poet
Have you heard of Fitz-Greene Halleck?
He was known as America’s Byron.
You’d think with a weighty title like that most English majors would know about him.
I hadn’t heard of him until I moved to Guilford, CT and started digging around in the library for some local literary history.
Event Announcement! Thursday 8/10: Queer, There, and Everywhere
This Thursday (8/10/17) from 6-7 pm, I’ll be in conversation with writer and activist Sarah Prager at the Book Club Bookstore & More in South Windsor, CT. Prager’s new book Queer There and Everywhere: 23 People Who Changed the… Read More ›
Pride Month Reading
Today is the last day of Pride Month. Did you read a book or poems or anything by an LGBTQ writer? I had planned to read James Baldwin’s Giovanni’s Room (1956), but June ended up being a wonderfully crazy-busy month… Read More ›
The Other F-Word by Natasha Friend
“That’s all they wanted, wasn’t it? Milo thought. To know where they came from? It wasn’t right, it wasn’t wrong, it just was.” In the 90s, test-tube babies, as babies conceived in vitro fertilization were called back then, were headline news and a huge… Read More ›
The Price of Salt by Claire Morgan (aka Carol by Patricia Highsmith) #CCSpin
Reading at the beach: 1986 Naiad Press Edition The latest Classics Club Spin finally landed on a book I loved! The Price of Salt was first published in 1952 by Claire Morgan, a pen name take by Patricia Highsmith who… Read More ›
Black Deutschland by Darryl Pinckney
Black Deutschland caught my eye in February’s Book Page and I immediately requested it from the library. A novel about a gay black guy from Chicago trying to stay sober in 1980s Berlin? Yes, please. I’m attracted to novels set… Read More ›