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posted Tuesday, June 18, 2024
Guncle is the latest novel from the bestselling author of Lily and the Octopus and The Editor. It’s a warm and deeply funny tale about a once-famous gay sitcom star whose unexpected family tragedy leaves him with his niece and nephew for the summer. Patrick, or Gay Uncle Patrick (GUP, for short), has always loved […]
posted Sunday, June 16, 2024
The Long Hallway is about growing up queer, closeted, and afraid. Richard Scott Larson found expression for his interior life in horror films, especially John Carpenter’s 1978 classic, Halloween. He developed an intense childhood identification with Michael Myers, Carpenter’s inscrutable masked villain, as well as Michael’s potential victims. Larson scrutinizes this identification, meditating on horror […]
posted Saturday, June 1, 2024
Toronto’s inaugural Gay Pride March took place in 1974 when a hundred people gathered to march from Allan Gardens to Queen’s Park, calling on lawmakers to include sexual orientation in the Ontario Human Rights Code. The march helped lay the groundwork for what has become one of the largest gay pride festivals in the world. […]
posted Thursday, May 30, 2024
You know them when you see them: mean boys take up space, wielding cruelty to claim their place in the pecking order. Some mean boys make art or music or fashion; others make memes. Mean boys stomp the runways in Milan and Paris; mean boys marched at Charlottesville. And in the eyes of critic and […]
posted Tuesday, May 28, 2024
“Writing this memoir is a betrayal.” So begins this electrifying personal account from Danny Ramadan, a celebrated novelist who has long enjoyed the shield his fiction provides. Now, to tell the story of his life, he must revisit dark corners of his past he’d rather forget and unearth memories of a city he can no […]
posted Tuesday, May 28, 2024
I’m a Fool to Want You: Stories is a collection of tales that are both gritty and unflinching, exuding tenderness and humour, blurring the fine line between fantasy and reality. These 9 stories are inhabited by extravagant and profoundly human characters who face an ominous reality in ways as strange as themselves, questioning assumptions about […]
posted Wednesday, May 22, 2024
An Evening with Birdy O’Day is a funny, boisterous, and deeply moving novel about an aging hairstylist’s first love, whose fevered quest for pop music glory drove them apart, until a chance meeting years later. Roland Keener has lived and worked in Winnipeg all his life. He’s more or less content with the quiet and […]
posted Tuesday, May 14, 2024
Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk is an electric, searing memoir from Kathleen Hanna, the original rebel girl and legendary front woman of Bikini Kill and Le Tigre. Hanna takes us from her tumultuous childhood home to her formative college years in Olympia, Washington, and on to her first years on tour, fighting […]
posted Monday, May 13, 2024
Pity is the debut novel from award-winning poet Andrew McMillan, that explores community, masculinity and post-industrialization in Northern England. The town was once a hub of industry. A place where men toiled underground in darkness, picking and shoveling in the dust and the sleck. It was dangerous and back-breaking work but it meant something. It […]
posted Saturday, April 27, 2024
A Good Happy Girl is a poignant, surprising, and immersive read about a young professional woman pursuing an emotionally intense relationship with a married lesbian couple. Helen, a jittery attorney with a self-destructive streak, is secretly reeling from a disturbing crime of neglect that her parents recently committed. Historically happy to compartmentalize—distracting herself by hooking […]
