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Lights. Camera. Take Action. Frameline42 Features 52% Women Filmmakers and Cutting-Edge Stories from 39 Countries

Frameline, the world’s longest-running and largest showcase of queer cinema, is excited to announce that Frameline42: San Francisco International LGBTQ Film Festival will take place June 14-24, 2018 in the San Francisco Bay Area. With an expected attendance of 60,000, Frameline42 will draw film lovers, media artists, and LGBTQ communities from the Bay Area and all across the globe to discover the latest slate of queer cinema. With 52% of all films directed by women, 39 countries are represented, including Brazil, Japan, Lebanon, Norway, Paraguay, Kosovo, South Africa, and Malaysia. The lineup—featuring 153 narratives, documentaries, episodics, and short films—also includes […]

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Book Review: ‘How to Write an Autobiographical Novel’ by Alexander Chee

Fiction writers learn to expect certain questions: “Where do you get your ideas?” and “How much of your work is autobiographical?” Both questions aim for the same information: both probe the relationship between fiction and nonfiction, the created work and lived experience. In How to Write an Autobiographical Novel, Alexander Chee, author of two previous novels The Queen of the Night and Edinburgh, addresses this relationship in a series of sixteen essays. As the title suggests, the result is partly a “how to” guide–a book that sits comfortably alongside recent works on craft like Benjamin Percy’s Thrill Me: Essays on […]

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Book Review: ‘Wild Beauty’ by Anna-Marie McLemore

Each generation of Nomeolvides women have been blessed with incredible powers. For decades, this family has overseen the gorgeous garden estate of La Pradera, where their extraordinary powers enable them to perform wonders—they can bring fields of blossoms to life in just seconds. But with their powers comes a curse, a painful mystical legacy: if they fall too much in love, the subject of their adoration will disappear. This is the world of Wild Beauty, the new magical fable from Anna-Marie McLemore, award-winning author of When the Moon was Ours. The story follows Estrella and her cousins—Azaela, Calla, Dalia, and Glora—all of whom […]

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Book Review: ‘Bachelor Girl’ by Kim Van Alkemade

Bachelor Girl by Kim Van Alkemade is a deep dive into New York City history that spans decades. Pulled from a compelling headline over a century old, it follows fictional heiress Helen Winthrope after the death of her mysterious benefactor, who left her his entire estate, taking her from spinster and Bachelor Girl to millionaire. Colonel Ruppert—a real historical figure, most known for signing Babe Ruth to the Yankees in the early 20th Century—takes a keen interest in Helen as she’s in her early twenties; he’d always been a periphery figure in her life, after the death of Helen’s father […]

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Book Review: ‘Love at Cooper’s Creek’ by Missouri Vaun

Shaw Daily is soul searching. In her late thirties, she’s a successful, jet-setting marketing guru, who finds herself questioning her job and her life. While on a business trip to Tokyo, a new clarity forms and she announces she’s going home before her business meeting is completed. However, home is not in San Francisco, where she currently resides: it’s Cooper’s Creek, where she spent delightful summers with her grandparents. Kate Elkins has left her job as a first-grade teacher to move back to her mother’s house now that her ailing mom can’t be left alone for long periods of time. […]

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Golden Girls Team to Produce “Silver Foxes”

Imagine if the people who brought you “Joanne the Scammer” teamed up with the people who brought you the feisty foursome of Blanche, Rose, Dorothy, and Sophia to bring you something even sassier? You might think that such a thing couldn’t be imagined, but you’d be wrong. With a star-studded cast attached to last year’s table read, featuring George Takei, Leslie Jordan, and Bruce Vilanch (among others,) “Silver Foxes” promises to attract a host of big-name stars in no time. Produced by Super Deluxe, the studio responsible for the cult hit “Joanne the Scammer,” as well as last year’s documentary […]

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Book Review: ‘Vacationland’ by Susan X Meagher

Maine’s wilderness is part of Devin Savary’s DNA, bringing her joy in a way that nothing else can. She loves her isolated cabin without electricity or running water, and ice skating her way to work in the winter. Devin is also one of the best guides in the state for hiking, hunting, camping, or fishing trips, any time of year. She knows that the only way to survive harsh winter conditions is to respect them and be prepared, which is why she prefers to plan the excursions she’s hired to lead. Devin isn’t happy when she’s brought in at the […]

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Judith Katz and Hilary Zaid on Inheritance, Influence, and the State of the 21st Century Lesbian Novel

Judith Katz is the author of two published novels, The Escape Artist and Running Fiercely Toward a High Thin Sound, which won the 1992 Lambda Literary Award for Best Lesbian Fiction and has been reissued in its 25th anniversary edition by Bywater Books. A 2017 Tennessee Williams Scholar at the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, Hilary Zaid is the author of numerous works of short fiction, including “My Triple X Valentine’s at the Far Point Senior Villas” (Day One) and the Pushcart-nominated “For Non-Speakers of the Mother Tongue” (The Tahoma Review). Her debut novel, Paper is White, was released in March from […]

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Film Review: ‘The Marriage’

LGBT movies made in Kosova are such a rarity  (if there are even others besides this one) it is inevitable that coming from a country still torn apart by strife, and culturally deeply homophobic, that any such films would never be allowed a happy ending. For once that is hardly a spoiler but the acceptance of reality in a society where it is not actually illegal to be homosexual, but it is nigh on impossible to be openly gay and survive. Kosovian filmmaker Blerta Zeqiri’s debut feature film combines a powerful indictment of her country’s troubling political climate with a most […]

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Book Review: ‘Winter Kept Us Warm’ by Anne Raeff

 She didn’t understand it, this love for him, but it was there, and if seven o’clock passed, then eight, then nine, the only way she could calm herself was to remember the bomb shelter, the waiting, the silence, the planes overhead, the buildings crashing down around her. I am safe, she repeated to herself, over and over again. —Winter Kept Us Warm We may never stop writing about post-war fragmentation. After all, it takes generations to get out of a single family, and we as writers are many families. And perhaps it’s even worth venturing to say that that is […]

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