interviews
We Still Can’t Stop Talking About Barbie
AM Homes and MG Lord on “A Real Doll” and the plastic icon’s enduring legacy
Jul 21 - AM Homes
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Your Next Read, Based on Your Favorite ’00s Indie Songs
These eight queer heartache novels pair perfectly with popular indie anthems of the early aughts
May 26 - Benny B. Peterson
Reading Lists
The Girl We Locked in the Trunk Is Very High Maintenance
“Driving Through Pennsylvania” by Mack Gelber, recommended by Wynter K Miller for Electric Literature
May 25 - Mack Gelber
RR Issue No. 731
These Poets Are Writing Queer Afterlives
Steven Reigns and Sara Youngblood Gregory discuss generational memory, the queer dance floor, and why certain stories must be told
May 25 - Sara Youngblood Gregory and Steven Reigns
interviews
7 Books in Which Obsession Is the Plot
For these women, to be obsessed is to be the center of one’s story
May 22 - Emily Haworth-Booth
Reading Lists
A Beloved Teacher’s Casual Homophobia Still Hurts
I want to believe she wasn’t being cruel, but on some level, she felt this kind of hatred was trivial or acceptable
May 21 - Hugh Ryan
Personal Narrative
The Gothic Is a Gateway to Literature’s Most Enduring Themes
The best books in the genre are haunted by the unbearable truth at the heart of empires
May 21 - Kyle McCarthy
Reading Lists
A Side of Metamorphosis With Your Coffee, Hon?
"The Flamingo Café" by Laurie Lathem, winner of the Stella Kupferberg Memorial Short Story Prize
May 20 - Laurie Lathem
Prose
Tracing the Connection Between Chronic Illness and Climate Change
In “Body Weather,” Lorraine Boissoneault maps her body’s systems onto weather patterns
May 20 - Leslie Nguyen-Okwu
interviews
7 Books About Queer and Trans Lives on the Prairies
These are stories of hiding, surviving, and loving in the harsh flatlands of central Canada
May 19 - Sam K MacKinnon
Reading Lists
You Should Know I Found a Dead Body
An excerpt from ATTENTION-SEEKING BEHAVIOR by Aea Varfis-van Warmelo, recommended by Kimberly Campanello
May 18 - Aea Varfis-van Warmelo
RR Issue No. 730
This Novel’s Shifting Perspectives Examine Foster Care from All Sides
Rachel León’s “How We See the Gray” is a compassionate, nuanced look at those impacted by the foster care system
May 18 - Jen St. Jude
interviews
We Need to Talk About Bad Writing
Not everything I write needs to be the best thing I’ve written
May 15 - Benjamin Schaefer
Craft
