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Confessions of the Fox
Confessions of the Fox is at once a sweeping love story, a mad-cap thriller, and an activist’s toolkit. The fact that Rosenberg is a trans man, writing a work of fiction that contains the perspectives of multiple trans characters, who not only survive but experience pleasure and love as much as they do pain and heartache, should not be a revolutionary thing. But it is.
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“It took me many years to build the confidence to fight for my ideas” : A Conversation with Leslie Shipman | Amy Gall
After spending twenty-five years in the literary nonprofit world, building nationwide reading programs, hosting events with hundreds of attendees, and eventually becoming the assistant director of the National Book Foundation, you might think the last thing Leslie Shipman would have wanted was to leave it all behind to start her own business. But sometimes, the bigger the risk, the greater the reward.
Watch Her Go - [PANK]
listen to this story “I’m not always there when you call—” She makes the telephone sign and presses her hand against her ear. “—but I’m always on time.” She points to her wrist, grinning. You think she’s clever. You wouldn’t have thought of doing that first part with the telephone. She does a slow hip swivel towards the couch you’re sitting on, pointing, first at herself, and then at you.
Compass poems by Allison Parrish - BOMB Magazine
Dec 16, 2020 To create her compass poems, poet and programmer Allison Parrish trained a machine learning model with two parts: one spells words based on how they sound, and the other sounds out words based on how they’re spelled. Parrish selects a list of semantically related words, and the “sounder-out” uses phonetics to translate those words into numerical vectors.
Douglas Crimp’s Dance Dance Film Essays by Rosalyn Deutsche - BOMB Magazine
Trisha Brown, Spiral, 1974, performance view, Dia: Beacon, Beacon, New York, 2010. Photo by Stephanie Berger. Courtesy of Dia Art Foundation, New York. (Dancing Foxes Press, 2021) At some point in the late ’70s, when Douglas Crimp and I were art history doctoral students at the Graduate Center, CUNY, he invited me to the ballet.
LaShonda Katrice Barnett: Players for Democracy
Photo credit: Ellen Foto. If you ask LaShonda Katrice Barnett for the thread count of the socks worn by sailors in Nantucket in the 1870s, chances are she’ll have the answer. “People ask me, ‘LaShonda, do you do nothing but read?’” she says. “I tell them I’m an avid footnote reader. A good footnote will give you about ten other books.” Barnett’s passion for history is profound.
Dialects of Desire: A Q&A With Garth Greenwell
Garth Greenwell isn’t interested in creating literary heroes. “There is a kind of luxury in narratives where the moral calculus is clear. I think it’s one of the reasons why we’re still so addicted to World War II dramas,” he says. “That was the last moment where we felt like the good guys and the bad guys were really obvious. But we don’t live in a world like that and we don’t inhabit selves in which goodness and badness are clear.” Garth Greenwell, author of Cleanness and What Belongs to You.
Breaking the Frame: Sarah Broom Unearths Her Family's Story in "The Yellow House"
For author Sarah Broom, the expression “home is where the heart is” works not just as a truism, but as an understatement. “I was haunted by the house I grew up in from the moment I left it to go to college in 1997. I’m interested in place and what it means to be tethered to place, and through the years, I kept taking notes on the physical house itself without knowing what I was going to say about it.
The Right to Fiction: Jordy Rosenberg on "Confessions of the Fox"
In a historical moment where the news itself feels like it’s cribbed from dystopian fiction, what is needed more than ever is the spark of a literary utopia – and in Jordy Rosenberg’s stunning debut novel, Confessions of the Fox readers get one. But we don’t catch a glimpse of a potentially brighter future, without first plunging into a darkly familiar past.
Which Story Will You Tell? A Q&A With Alexander Chee
Sometimes it pays to procrastinate. It took Alexander Chee fifteen years to complete his second novel, The Queen of the Night, and about seven years in, during a particularly bad case of writer’s block, he spoke to his agent, Jin Auh at the Wylie Agency, about putting together a collection of essays instead. “It was one of many moments where I was like, ‘Is there anything I can do to get out of writing this novel?’” Chee says.
"Not a heartbeat, but a moan": Nicole Sealey
One might not expect a collection of poetry with subject matter as diffuse as a lynching and the board game Clue to hang together. But Nicole Sealey’s second book, Ordinary Beast, manages to perfectly blend the heartbreaking and the hilarious — often in a single stanza. A timely and haunting meditation on love, gender, race, and the body, Ordinary Beast is already receiving high praise, landing on NPR’s most anticipated Poetry Books of 2017 list and Publishers Weekly‘s Top 10 Poetry Books of 2017.
Nourishing Us One Bowl at a Time
While many of us were reeling in the wake of Trump’s election, Liz Alpern decided to take action. “I realized,” she said, “when you don’t know what to do, do what you know how to do.” So Alpern, who recently co-wrote The Gefilte Manifesto, a cookbook filled with the revamped traditional Jewish recipes she serves through her company The Gefilteria, got cooking. She created Queer Soup Night, a monthly fundraiser run out of Pel’s Pies in Prospect-Lefferts Gardens.
Ballez: Making Ballet Funny, Strange, and Explicitly Queer
I’ve always liked ballet, but whenever I go to a show, I know I’m seeing something that isn’t for or about my community—the queer community. At the heart of traditional ballet is a celebration of heterosexual love, a lack of female agency, and impossibly thin bodies. Three years ago, I went to see Ballez perform The Firebird, a retelling of the turn of the century Stravinsky ballet. I went in knowing nothing about the company or what I was about to see.
Books I Wish I’d Read as an LGBTQ Teenager
When I was young, the only literature I could find about lesbians was either deeply tragic or short on character and long on formulaic, anatomically incorrect sex scenes (I’m looking at you, Xena Warrior Princess fanfiction). It wasn’t until I graduated college that I found a book which actually spoke to my experience. Dorothy Allison’s short story collection Trash made me feel seen in a way I had never imagined possible and didn’t even know I needed.
5 Things to Know Before Trying Out Sex with Another Woman
1. Be Honest with Her “I went on a Tinder date with a woman who seemed really nervous," says Jay, 28. "When I asked her about her past dating experiences, she admitted she’d never been with a woman. I wish I hadn’t had to ask her to figure it out, but it was way less awkward than finding out once I took her home." If this is your first time, tell your potential partner before you get in bed. Maybe it’s her first time, too, and you can both discover each other’s bodies together.
What It Is and What It Is Called
“Are you attracted to your sister?” The Professor looks at me, her hands loosely clasped on the desk in front of her. She is calm, almost cheerful. It is as if she has just asked me what my favorite color is. I have known the Professor since I started college. She taught my first class and has been on my committee since I was a sophomore. I like her. I trust her. “What?” I say. “Are you attracted to your sister?” The Professor is white. I notice this as if for the first time. I am also white.
Amy Gall
Between the ages of 12 and 15, I spent at least four hours a day reading stories about sex between women. My time was divided between my father’s Letters to Penthouse collection, and Xena: Warrior Princess and Star Trek: Voyager fan fiction websites. It wasn’t just that these stories turned me on.
Lucy Corin: Apocalypse Now
Author: Amy Gall August 20, 2013 “I love reading from this book because I’ve never had these kind of responses to anything I’ve written. I think it’s because everyone has an apocalyptic fantasy life.” When asked to describe Lucy Corin’s writing, renowned poet Louise Gluck said “Lucy Corin sounds like no one.” In a world where it seems most writing is derivative of an author or work that came before them, this is the highest praise. And it is well-deserved.
'A Hundred Apocalypses and Other Apocalypses' by Lucy Corin
Author: Amy Gall August 7, 2013 In a recent interview, Lucy Corin was asked how she feels about endings: It seems to me that people are mostly at war, and that there are only moments of peace. So I’ve been thinking that it’s actually strange that novels supposedly begin and end with stasis. In this sense, stasis is the artifice, not change, not conflict, drama, or discord.
Lillian Faderman: Mother and Daughter Reunion
Author: Amy Gall March 10, 2013 “Through most of my life I loved my mother very much, but I thought she was pathetic. Thinking deeply about her and writing about her has made me understand the ways in which she was truly heroic.” Writing about your parents is never easy, but writing a book about your parents that ends as you are being born is a staggering challenge. Yet Lamdba Award winning author Lillian Faderman does just that to great success in her forthcoming book, My Mother’s Wars.
Ayana Mathis: The Power of the Tribe
Author: Amy Gall January 1, 2013 When a books editor at O Magazine expressed interest in reviewing her debut novel, The Twelve Tribes of Hattie (Knopf), author Ayana Mathis was thrilled. “They said they needed a quote from me right away and I couldn’t figure out why, but I thought ‘sure’ and sent it off. I was expecting a fifteen minute phone conversation with the books editor.” Little did she know that Oprah herself would be the one making the call.
Let’s Talk About Sex: Allison, Myles, and Woolf
Between the ages of 12 and 15, I spent at least four hours a day reading stories about sex between women. My time was divided between my father’s Letters to Penthouse collection, and Xena: Warrior Princess and Star Trek: Voyager fan fiction websites. It wasn’t just that these stories turned me on.
Let’s Talk About Sex: Allison, Myles, and Woolf
Author: Amy Gall October 13, 2012 Between the ages of 12 and 15, I spent at least four hours a day reading stories about sex between women. My time was divided between my father’s Letters to Penthouse collection, and Xena: Warrior Princess and Star Trek: Voyager fan fiction websites. It wasn’t just that these stories turned me on.
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