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posted Wednesday, February 23, 2022
In the fall of 1980, young Casey Adair begins a year of postgraduate theatre research in Spain, then on the verge of a military coup. As he attends plays and dinner parties, visits gay bars, and becomes increasingly involved in protests, Casey’s correspondence reveals intimate confessions and new understandings. He falls in love with a […]
posted Tuesday, February 22, 2022
Viral sensation and Emmy Award-winner Leslie Jordan regales fans with entertaining stories about the odd, funny, and unforgettable events in his life in this unmissable essay collection that echoes his droll, irreverent voice. When actor Leslie Jordan learned he had “gone viral,” he had no idea what that meant or how much his life was […]
posted Monday, February 21, 2022
The Music Game by Stéfanie Clermont expertly captures the experience of the millennial generation, following three young women through a story of friendship, betrayal, romantic discovery, identity, sexuality and gender, feminism, and more. Friends since grade school, Céline, Julie, and Sabrina come of age at the start of a new millennium, supporting each other and […]
posted Tuesday, February 8, 2022
THEY by Kay Dick is a lost dystopian masterpiece and overlooked queer classic newly available for the first time in forty years in this special international publication. THEY is eerily prescient and startlingly urgent. Two publishing people recently discovered THEY in used bookshops at almost exactly the same time. Which is a miracle because the book has been out of print […]
posted Sunday, January 30, 2022
Alphabet of Hope is an anthology of stories written by members of the LGBTQ+ community from around the world. Hope is a precious commodity for teenagers trying to understand their identity, and these authors share their own accounts of trying to understand who they are, and how the world is going to treat them once […]
posted Friday, January 28, 2022
Toronto production company Hawkeye Pictures and Ottawa’s Big Jump Entertainment are developing Brian Francis’s novel Fruit as an animated series. The novel was the runner-up for CBC’s Canada Reads in 2009. Set in 1984, Fruit follows the awkward misadventures of fat-and-fabulous 13-year-old Peter Paddington as he navigates life as a total outsider. Bullied everywhere, Peter […]
posted Tuesday, January 25, 2022
STILL MORE STUBBORN STARS follows the story of Roger, a hapless but enthusiastic Come-from-Away who, arriving in Prince Edward Island with his family as a child, struggles to figure out the ‘Island’ way of life.Roger eventually rises to power, founding the sprawling Acadian Culture Centre in rural western PEI. Here he becomes an impresario of Acadian kitsch and a catalyst of […]
posted Saturday, January 22, 2022
There’s no right way to keep a diary, but if there’s an entertaining way, David Sedaris seems to have mastered it. After his best selling, Theft by Finding: Diaries 1977-2002, he’s back with a follow up, A Carnival of Snackery: Diaries (2003-2020). If it’s navel-gazing you’re after, you’ve come to the wrong place; ditto treacly […]
posted Friday, January 21, 2022
Seventeen-year-old Lily Hu can’t remember exactly when the feeling took root—that desire to look, to move closer, to touch. Whenever it started growing, it definitely bloomed the moment she and Kathleen Miller walked under the flashing neon sign of a lesbian bar called the Telegraph Club. Suddenly everything seemed possible.But America in 1954 is not a […]
posted Monday, January 17, 2022
It’s not easy “choosing not to choose,” especially for a nonbinary teen in 2007. Corey was born intersex, but their father and stepmother didn’t make a big deal about it. Then Corey’s dad dies suddenly. Now Corey’s disapproving mother wants Corey to “pick a side”. Corey’s old enough to say no to medical intervention—but not […]
