Category: On Books and Publishing

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

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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. 

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On Books and Publishing Queer Politics, Culture, and History Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

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

Interesting ideas don’t always make for compelling books.

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

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

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

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]
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An Interview with PETA’s Dan Mathews

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

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Animals On Books and Publishing

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

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

Committed: A Rabble-Rouser's Memoir by [Mathews, Dan]
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Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic

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

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

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

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Nicola Griffith’s Always

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

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

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

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

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