Category: On Books and Publishing

Book reviews and author interviews, as well essays on the state of publishing.

Kenny Fries’ The History of My Shoes and the Evolution of Darwin’s Theory

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date August 29, 2007

Interesting ideas don’t always make for compelling books.

On Books and Publishing Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

Girls Who Like Boys Who Like Boys: True Tales of Love, Lust, and Friendship between Straight Women and Gay Men

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date August 1, 2007

It’s not the fag hag who’s dead—it’s the fag.

On Books and Publishing

Craig Seymour’s All I Could Bare: My Life in the Strip Clubs of Gay Washington, D.C

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date July 30, 2007

Sex, it turns out, says nothing about sexuality.

All I Could Bare: : My Life in the Strip Clubs of Gay Washington, D.C. by [Seymour, Craig]

On Books and Publishing

An Interview with PETA’s Dan Mathews

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date July 18, 2007

We spent many years kicking the door open and now we’ve got a foot in it.

Animals On Books and Publishing

Dan Mathews’ Committed: A Rabble-Rouser’s Memoir

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date July 11, 2007

“Kids shouldn’t talk to strangers, even if the stranger is a vegetable.”

Committed: A Rabble-Rouser's Memoir by [Mathews, Dan]

Film, Art, Television, and Media On Books and Publishing Queer Politics, Culture, and History Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date July 4, 2007

“I’d been upstaged, demoted from protagonist in my own drama to comic relief in my parents’ tragedy.”

On Books and Publishing

Jacqueline Taylor’s Waiting for the Call: From Preacher’s Daughter to Lesbian Mom

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date June 13, 2007

The arc of the story is set in the title itself.

On Books and Publishing

Nicola Griffith’s Always

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date May 23, 2007

Money is a great thing to have in real life, but it makes for a lousy plot device in a novel.

Animals On Books and Publishing Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

Barbara Kingsolver’s Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date May 16, 2007

It never occurs to an otherwise progressive-minded Kingsolver that her project might replicate the United States’ political isolationism

On Books and Publishing Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

Todd Taylor’s Shirley Wins

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date May 9, 2007

Excerpt: Punk’s political power once lay, at least in part, in its refusal to live by categorizations, and its defiance of the imperative to grow up, settle down and pretend that there is nothing new to learn or live for after a point.