THOR, Pink Kiss , via Wikimedia Commons . Licensed under CC BY 2.0 . Bury Your Gays: the latest tongue-in-cheek name for authors’ tendency to end queer relationships by killing somebody off, or having someone revert to heterosexuality, or introducing something that abruptly ends a queer storyline. The message: queer love is doomed, fated for […]
Circus poster, 1890 from the Library of Congress As a queer girl growing up in small-town Scotland, I’ve always been attracted to stories about characters who don’t fit in. Better yet: those whose strangeness is their source of power. My debut novel, Freakslaw , opens with an epigraph from The Craft: “We are the weirdos, […]
Book Marks logo Rachel Cusk’s Parade , Francine Prose’s 1974 , and Andrew O’Hagan’s Caledonian Road all feature among the best reviewed books of the week. Brought to you by Book Marks , Lit Hub’s home for book reviews. * Fiction Caledonian Road Cover 1. Caledonian Road by Andrew O’Hagan (W. W. Norton) 5 Rave […]
The following is from Chukwuebuka Ibeh’s Blessings . Ibeh is a writer from Port Harcourt, Nigeria, born in 2000. His writing has appeared in McSweeneys, New England Review of Books and Lolwe , amongst others, and he is a staff writer at Brittle Paper . He has studied creative writing under Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Dave […]
Summer Words includes a discussion on the unique power of books Will Schwalbe is leading this year’s Summer Words’ Readers Retreat. Books have informed or inspired nearly every significant social movement in the past several hundred years, according to Will Schwalbe, New York Times bestselling author of “The End of Your Life Book Club.” He […]
