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Having a “Fall”: Interview with Christopher Rice

“I think that’s certainly something that can be said about the Iraq War: We are over there trying to save people who didn’t ask us to be there and who didn’t want to be saved by us. And that’s something he’s attuned to, and something a lot of military people are attuned to.”

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Christopher Rice’s Blind Fall

Blind Fall stumbles from the burden of having to be a novel about gay issues, rather than the more satisfying thriller it could have been.

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D’Emilio Marks Anniversary

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Kevin Barnhurst’s Media Queered: Visibility and Its Discontents

We have queered capitalism, and are paying the price. 

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The Revolution Will Not Be Funded: Beyond the Non-Profit Industrial Complex

Surely, whatever else ails radical organizing: it’s not a dearth of coupledom or maternal feeling. 

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Bob Smith’s Selfish & Perverse

“What had me worried was that I was an artsy, thirty-four-year-old man who needed to confront whether I was really talented or just gay.”

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Review: Sara Paretsky’s Bleeding Kansas

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Jean Thompson’s Throw Like a Girl

“It seemed you ought to be able to aim desire like a lens, and pass your longing straight through it.  Maybe I was simply out of range.”

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Christopher Lane’s Shyness: How Normal Behavior Became a Sickness

Excerpt: We have since attempted to scrub ourselves clean of the unconscious.

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Jennifer Parello’s Dateland

Exceprt: We have convinced ourselves that being happy and being interesting are two incommensurable states of being.