Queer View Mirror is an anthology of 99 gay and lesbian short stories (short short stories, no more than a couple pages each) collected by James C. Johnstone and Karen X. Tulchinsky, and published by my very favourite publishing company (I am desperately wishing to one day work there), Arsenal Pulp Press. Queer View MirrorRead More
T.S. Eliot, Lesbian Fiction Fan?
Sorry about not posting in a while, I’ll be putting up a review later today, but first I wanted to share an article I just stumbled upon. In my high school Lit class, I used to amuse myself by finding or inventing gay and lesbian subtext in everything we read. My best friend and IRead More
Lambda Literary Finalists
I’m just a few pages away from finishing an awesome gay and lesbian anthology that I’ll be sharing with you, but until then I wanted to share some important Lesbrary news: the finalists for the Lambda Literary Awards have been released! Here are some of the queer women highlights: Lesbian Debut Fiction The Creamsickle, byRead More
Read or Die, Vol. 1
This is a classic case of “does it count?” I read R.O.D. expecting it to be explicitly lesbian, which wasn’t quite true. But first things first: Read or Die was first a series of Japanese light novels (not currently published in English, but a fan translation is in the works) which then spawned R.O.D. theRead More
Lesbrary Sneak Peek (or: Stuff I Got In the Mail This Week)
I’ve got one hundred unread lesbian/queer women books I own (one hundred and four, to be exact) and probably about three hundred more at the library I can access at any point, so even the queer women books I have I’m probably not going to read for a while yet. That’s why I have SneakRead More
Guest Lesbrarian Stefanie reviews Marthy Moody by Susan Stinson
Welcome to our first Guest Lesbrarian post! This one is by Stefanie for lesbian writer Susan Stinson’s book Martha Moody, published in 1995. She also recommends some of Stinson’s other fiction, including Venus of Chalk and Fat Girl Dances with Rocks. Please, send in your own guest lesbrarian review! Susan Stinson’s Martha Moody is anRead More
Danika reviews Halfway to Silence by May Sarton
I wanted to update with something new that I’ve read, so I picked something small: Halfway to Silence by May Sarton. It’s a collection of her poetry. This is the first book by her I’ve read, though she’s written many. I have a funny relationship with poetry. I love it, in some ways: right nowRead More
Lesbrary Lust: Lesbian Pulp Fiction
Well, I haven’t read any new lesbrary books since last post (I’m still working through a stack of library books), so I thought I’d introduce a new feature: Lesbrary Lust. Lesbrary Lust posts are about books I desperately want to read, but don’t yet own and can’t get through my library. This Lesbrary Lust postRead More
Kicked Out edited by Sassafras Lowrey
I’m sorry I’ve taken so long to get the first review up, but don’t worry: it’s a good one. Kicked Out is an anthology of LGBTQ homeless youth. Somewhere between 20-40% of homeless identify as LGBTQ, which is a staggering number. Kicked Out was created to tell these stories, and to prove to those LGBTQRead More
Bi & Lesbian Book Recommendations
If you’re not sure where to start with queer women books, here are some of my favourites. The Classics 1) Rubyfruit Jungle by Rita Mae Brown This 1970s novel is not only a lesbian/queer women classic, it also entertaining and challenges social norms even to this day. I still remember the day I realized IRead More