Link Round Up: July 30 – August 11

AndPlayingtheRole   tippingthevelvet   binotes

AfterEllen posted Mary Gaitskill on her bisexuality and writing queer and AfterEllen.com Book Club: “And Playing the Role of Herself”.

Autostraddle posted

Band of Thebes posted The Polari LGBT First Book Prize Longlist 2013.

Bisexual Books posted Bi Notes for a Bisexual Revolution BookChat : An Introduction.

Good Lesbian Books posted Lesbians in Sport: Fiction & Nonfiction.

battlescars   furthest city light   BrandedAnn

I’ve just discovered the LadyLike Book Club, a lesbian romance novel book club podcast! Check out the trailer for their podcast, then start with Episode 1 (or 2; the trailer and episode 1 are pretty much the same)! They’re up to Episode 16.

Lambda Literary posted New in August: Wayne Koestenbaum, Lucy Corin, Mark Morrisroe, Saiya Miller and Liza Bley and Lit! A Queer Reading : Ellis Avery, Melissa Febos, Shelly Oria, and Rachel M. Simon.

Literally Lesbian Book Review posted READ THIS NOW! The Furthest City Light: The Book of the Summer.

Queer Books Please posted Episode 28 – ANNIE ON MY MIND (or how I was a teenage book thief but now I try to forgive myself) and Episode 29 – The longest quick reading update there ever was.

Sistahs On the Shelf posted A to Z Book Survey.

wecomeelemental   whenwewereoutlaws   midnightsun“Never Saw A Girl Like Her: Female/Female Relationships in Sarah Waters’s Novels

Alison Bechdel posted Fun Home! The Musical!

Malinda Lo posted Lambda Emerging Writers Retreat: An amazing week with queer writers and Out today: Heiresses of Russ 2013.

“Never Saw A Girl Like Her: Female/Female Relationships in Sarah Waters’s Novels” was posted at Heroes and Heartbreakers.

The Midnight Sun by Nene Adams was reviewed at Lambda Literary.

Above Reproach by Lynn Ames was reviewed at Piercing Fiction.

We Come Elemental by Tamiko Beyer was reviewed at Lambda Literary.

When We Were Outlaws by Jeanne Córdova was reviewed at Autostraddle.

onehundredapocalypses   xianne   broken-in-soft-places

One Hundred Apocalypses and Other Apocalypses by Lucy Corin was reviewed at Lambda Literary.

Date with Destiny by Mason Dixon was reviewed at Lambda Literary.

Xianne by Jayce Grayson was reviewed at Good Lesbian Books.

Ghost Trio By Lillian Q. Irwin was reviewed at Loving Venus – Loving Mars.

Giraffe People by Jill Malone was reviewed at Lambda Literary.

The End of San Francisco by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore was reviewed at Tikkun.

Straight out of University by Rosen Trethiwick was reviewed at Good Lesbian Books.

Broken in Soft Places by Fiona Zedde was reviewed at ELIXHER.

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