SWEET WORLD: A TRIBUTE TO MAUREEN SEATON
This reading honors the life and work of award-winning poet, professor, and LGBTQ+ activist Maureen Seaton (October 20, 1947 – August 26, 2023), author of
LOVE & WAR
In ARMANDO CORREA‘s The Night Travelers: A Novel, four generations of women experience love, loss, war, and hope from the rise of Nazism and the
GOTHIC MAGIC & DARK DESIRES
Set at a Victorian London circus, AMIEE GIBBS‘ The Carnivale of Curiosities: A Novel is a tale of Faustian bargains, jealousy, and murder, where for
NEW YORK: UNDRESSED
Drag’s evolution as an art form, a community, and a mode of liberation is chronicled in ELYSSA MAXX GOODMAN’s Glitter and Concrete: A Cultural History
THE GHOSTS THAT HAUNT US
In JOHN MANUEL ARIAS’ Where There Was Fire: A Novel, 27 years after a blaze erupts at a banana plantation in Costa Rica, a woman
CELEBRATING FREEMAN’S: CONCLUSIONS – A CONVERSATION WITH ANDREW HOLLERAN
Freeman’s: Conclusions is the 10th and final installment of JOHN FREEMAN‘s boundary-pushing literary journal. Having spent a decade introducing the English-speaking world to writers from
LOOKING OUTWARD, SEEING WITHIN: THREE MEMOIRS
Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant: A Memoir is CURTIS S. CHIN’s love letter to Detroit’s Chung’s Cantonese Cuisine, where anyone –
FOUR AUTHORS ON SELF-EXPLORATION & IDENTITY
In SALAR ABDOH‘s A Nearby Country Called Love: A Novel, two brothers struggle to find their place in an Iran that’s on the brink of
LGBTQ Lives
Real Queer America: LGBT Stories from Red States is transgender reporter Samantha Allen’s narrative tour through the surprisingly vibrant queer communities sprouting up in conservative
Awakenings, A Reading
Megan Phelps-Roper’s memoir Unfollow tells a tale of her moral awakening, from spokesperson of her grandfather’s Westboro Baptist Church, best known for picketing funerals of
I Belong Here: Identity as Power
How we navigate how others see us, and how that causes us to see ourselves are a key part of finding our path in life.
Fantastic Loves
Jose Ignacio “Chascas” Valenzuela’s To The End of the World, the first installment in English of his popular Trilogia del Malamor, is a story of