Casey McQuiston queers the romance genre and U.S. politics in one swoop with this snarky-toned little novel. I don’t actually like romance at all, but I can tolerate this one…
Queer Literature
Milk Fed
September 1, 2024Melissa Broder’s hilarious novel came across my feed when I was looking for contemporary queer literature to update my intro course. It perfectly combines anxiety about (over)eating and anxiety about…
Guncle
June 14, 2022If you’ve never read Patrick Dennis’s Auntie Mame, you might miss out on some aspects of Guncle. So go read that, then listen to the Broadway musical (Angela Lansbury and…
The Great Believers
August 16, 2020Ambitious novel set in two different time periods–1980s Chicago during the AIDS crisis and 2015 in Paris–with characters, timelines and plots that converged, but sometimes in confusing ways. The novel…
Rebecca
July 11, 2019I can’t believe I’ve never read this novel before. I’m sure I’m about to offend someone but I’ll just say it: Rebecca is such a Jane Eyre knock-off. And I’m such…
Choir Boy
November 18, 2018Reviews of the play call it a coming-of-age story, but it’s too brief a blip in time to really be a bildungsroman. The play is fast-paced, covering maybe a year…
The Haunting of Hill House
September 5, 2018Extremely rewardingly creepy read, by which I mean that reading it completely creeped me out and now I can’t be alone at night in my house anymore. The plot finds…
The Yacoubian Building
October 9, 2017I’m mentoring a senior capstone project on this novel, so I figured I’d better read it. For me, it started too slowly. Plot did not “thicken” until around page 80,…
Pregnant Butch
May 18, 2017This is the excerpt for a placeholder post.