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Love in the Time of Serial Killers Review + A Cat-and-Mouse Thriller in the Jim Crow South with Wanda M. Morris

In the first segment, Jordy sits down to discuss one of her favorite books of this year. Love in the Time of Serial Killers gives us the spice we need, the laughs we want, and the insight we weren’t expecting. Wanda M. Morris’ sophomore thriller, Anywhere You Run, comes out this week and Renee wants

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Book Review: After Sappho by Selby Wynn Schwartz

Selby Wynn Schwartz’s After Sappho, a light historical fiction, brings together some of Europe’s most beloved (and forgotten) lesbian artists, writers, activists, and actresses, with a few appearances from some of our favorite gay allies. As women’s rights are challenged, built, and destroyed at the turn of the 20th century, they are all guided by

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Book Review: The Lesbiana’s Guide to Catholic School by Sonora Reyes

Yami is not your typical Catholic school student. She is Mexican-American, has two immigrant parents (one of whom was deported to Mexico), and is gay.  After her brother, Cesar, kept getting harassed and bullied at their previous public school, Yami and Cesar’s mother, Maria, transferred them to Slayton, a preppy Catholic school. Slayton is primarily

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I’m Glad My Mom Died: A Discussion about Jennette McCurdy’s Memoir

Ashley, Rah, Mariquita, and Alana Amore discuss the memoir, I’M GLAD MY MOM DIED by Jennette McCurdy. The conversation gets into thoughts about how Jennette wrote her experiences including her relationship with her siblings, going to therapy, and healing after her abusive relationship with her mother.  There are spoilers in this conversation. There are also

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Lungfish by Meghan Gilliss
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Book Review: Lungfish by Meghan Gilliss

Meghan Gilliss’s debut novel, Lungfish, left me reeling. Experimental in form and told in flashbacks and fragments with vivid descriptions that verge on poems, Lungfish is disjointed and sometimes chaotic, like the tumultuous and precarious life of its protagonist, Tuck. Its language, like its landscape, is lush and vibrant with a razor-sharp edge. While it

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