Category: On Books and Publishing

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

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Film, Art, Television, and Media On Books and Publishing

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

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

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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Capitalism, Class, Inequality On Books and Publishing

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. 

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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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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

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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