For The Book Obsessed
[ad_1] I dance to save myself, and find / Swimming in sweat, it’s in our common breath I fly. Paul Verlaine On the morning of June 13, 2016, I woke up to a text reading “did you hear the news?” The day before, Omar Mateen had shot up the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, killing 49 … Read more
[ad_1] Theodore McCombs’s debut collection, Uranians, is a remarkable achievement, a polished and varied set of stories: speculative, queer, and cerebral. The entire set shines on a prose level, from the off-hand description of a climate-ravaged San Francisco with “Hail, thick as eyes” in “Laguna Beach” to the repeated floral metaphors of the title story: … Read more
[ad_1] How well can we ever know the people we love? Are there limits to healthy affection? Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya makes literal in her fiction the questions we might be afraid to ask. With her debut novelette, Helen House, these questions take a sinister turn. The story’s narrator and her girlfriend, Amber, share an intense … Read more
[ad_1] Our hearts MAY have just stopped… because the first teaser trailer for the Heartstopper TV series just dropped! It’s a live-action adaptation of the bestselling and beloved graphic novel series by Alice Oseman, and we can’t wait to see our faves Charlie, Nick, Darcy, Tao, Tori, and more come to life on screen! While … Read more
[ad_1] Myths about romantic and familial love run rampant in our heteronormative, patriarchal culture. As children, we’re trained to believe that romantic love is the most noble love of all, that breakups are failures, and that being a mother is the purest way to love a child. Queer and trans communities have been pushing back … Read more