Books

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Book Review: ‘Oscar of Between: A Memoir of Identity and Ideas’ by Betsy Warland

Betsy Warland’s new book Oscar of Between: A Memoir of Identity and Ideas travels seven years, multiple countries, and three continents. Vibrant and pulsating with life, Oscar of Between, like Warland’s other works, demonstrates Warland’s multiple engagements with crucial—and contemporary—literary, political, and aesthetic questions. Warland is a prolific writer and formidable intellectual. Her oeuvre includes ten collections of poetry, two co-written with her then-lover and collaborator Daphne Marlatt. Warland’s memoir, Bloodroot: Tracing the Untelling of Motherloss, blends the narrative impulse of prose with a poetic sensibility like Oscar of Between. Her 2010 writing manual, Breathing the Page: Reading the Act […]

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Lesbian Author Details Marijuana Sex Product Review Marathon

Lesbian sexuality expert and author Anna Pulley of the Bay Area spent a week trying popular marijuana sex product formulations with her partner, and her results — published March 8 — are both ’mixed’ and highly titillating. Health practitioners have recommended cannabis for sexuality for thousands of years, however the advent of medical and recreational legalization is ushering in a heady new era of sex-oriented legal pot products, including alleged aphrodesiac strains, infused lubes, and tinctures. The cannabis strain Slymer certainly scored a big ‘O’ with Pulley. “I came like a kite breaking, like a disco roller skate party. It […]

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Book Review: ‘Juliana’ by Vanda

“Well, this is just like that. They keep doing it even though they don’t want to. They’re called homosexual addicts.”- Vanda, Juliana Historical fiction is a hard genre to hack. Couple that with the idea that lesbian literature—in a canonical sense, at least—has largely been reclaimed as queer retroactively, and Vanda has quite the job to do: create a historical novel about a time period in which we know very little about queerness—World War II. This includes the experience of, the sociopolitical landscape of, the vernacular of, etc. However, throughout this large, wieldy novel (which has been adapted to stage performances, book […]

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Book Review: ‘Tender’ by Belinda McKeon

Tender, by Belinda McKeon, begins with our heroine sunbathing at her friend James’s house, overhearing the pattern of their familial banter. She is a writing and art history major, and James is beginning a career in photography. They become fast friends, bound seemingly by their otherness – Jame is gay and Catherine is from a conservative farming family. Some sort of hunger for new experiences seems to attract them to one another and they quickly become close.When James comes out to Catherine, after she wondered why he hasn’t made a pass at her, her fascination with him grows. He isn’t just […]

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Book review: ‘Gay & Lesbian History for Kids’

  Every day, you try to catch a little news. It might be online, maybe in a newspaper, magazine, or on TV, but you’re a smart kid and you like to stay informed. Lately, you’ve been hearing a lot about gay rights and gay marriage, and you want to know more. Read Gay & Lesbian History for Kids by Jerome Pohlen, and your questions might be answered. Knowing someone who’s gay, lesbian, or transgender is nothing new; in fact, history indicates that our earliest ancestors acknowledged and were “comfortable with” LGBT people. Homosexuality appears in mythology, royalty, battlefields, art (Michelangelo […]

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Book Review: ‘The Wedding Heard ‘Round the World’

  There’s always been a picket fence in your future. You could just picture it: charming spouse, two-point-five kids, minivan, Cape Cod with manicured lawn, birthday parties on the patio, all surrounded by that picket fence. It was a perfect dream of a blissful life. And, as in The Wedding Heard ‘Round the World by Michael McConnell with Jack Baker, as told to Gail Langer Karwoski, making history would be a nice bonus. As a child playing with neighborhood girls, Michael McConnell remembers wanting the same thing they wanted: to grow up and marry a handsome man. Their crushes were […]

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New Book Supports LGBT Couple Who Are Starting Families

Now that marriage equality is legal throughout the U.S., many same-sex couples are moving on to the next step in their relationships by starting families. But the road to parenthood is still a challenge for many people in the LGBT community. That’s why author Eric Rosswood put together Journey to Same-Sex Parenthood, a new book designed to help people in the LGBT community start families of their own. Journey to Same-Sex Parenthood is filled with nearly 20 gripping real-life stories of same-sex couples creating their own families. The rollercoaster of emotions and detailed complications in each story, paint a picture of what […]

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The Publishing Triangle Award Finalists Announced

The Publishing Triangle, the association of lesbian and gay men in publishing, have announced the finalists for their annual literary awards. Congratulations to all the nominees. This year’s Triangle Awards ceremony will be held on be held Thursday, April 21, 2016 at the Tishman Auditorium inside the New School’s University Center Building, 63 Fifth Avenue (corner of 13th Street), New York, NY at 7 p.m. The ceremony is free and open to the public, with a reception to follow. The Bill Whitehead Award for lifetime achievement will be bestowed to poet and publisher Eloise Klein and the founders of Christopher Street Magazine will receive the Publishing Triangle’s Leadership Award during the ceremony. For more details click here. Finalists […]

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Don Weise On His New Publishing Endeavor Querelle Press

Last year, renowned gay publisher and editor Don Weise, along with philanthropist Chuck Forester, launched Querelle, a small press focused on publishing new LGBT titles. Querelle was launched with the hope of establishing a press that cultivates a more personal connection between writers and the publisher’s editors, as well as opening up new opportunities for authors seeking to self-publish their work. Weise took some time to talk with Lambda Literary Review about this new endeavor and what he is hoping to accomplish with the press. What was the impetus in creating Querelle? I transferred ownership of the name Magnus over to […]

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Book Review: ‘Beijing Comrades’ by Bei Tong

Beijing Comrades is a beautifully written love story that features characters who are fully developed, complex, and believably human. (A reviewer must sometimes be forgiven for coming straight to the point.) The book is remarkable for this realistically rendered romance, its explicit sexual encounters, and the elaborate, heartbreaking power-plays between the characters. Handong Chen, a powerful businessman in late-1980s China, and Lan Yu, the bright but naïve architecture student whom Handong tries to control like a concubine, remind us of people we have known. We feast on a rich slice of Chinese culture while watching these men grow over a […]

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