Caro here. Poor college student extraordinaire, basing my existence in Atlanta, Georgia currently. I quite like David Sedaris, of course, and will always be a fan of Nancy Garden--Annie on My Mind, sappy as it is, definitely got me through high school.

Hello, my name is Mary and I just joined. I am a writer and a reader, I will always have a book nearby. Three of my favorite books are Rainbow Boys, Latter Days, and Brother Bishop.

hi, i'm ashley. i've been lurking for a while, and thought i'd introduce myself......and promote the amazing website librarything!

you catalog your books, and then you can meet other people who've read the same books, as well as get book reccomendations based on your library. it's great. Leave a comment

Only kidding, but I've always wanted to write that heading. I think it's the definitive internet title.

Been a long time since I've been in here. I've been feng shui-ing (not a comfortable word, that) all my various blogs, web sites etc, clearing them out in preparation for Volume 2 of my book, DANNY, coming out.

Partly in honour of the occasion, ( Read more... )

Hi everyone! I wanted to let the David Levithan fans out there know that I made a community dedicated just to discussing him and his books. Here it is!
If you have any questions just ask here, my name is April.
Also, I'm still looking for one other person to help me mod the comm. and get it up running, promoting and all.
Thanks heaps.
x

Hey everyone. I put this entry behind a cut just because I'm not entirely sure if its appropriate for this community (if it isn't just tell me and I'll delete it) but I made a David Sedaris community. ( Read more... )

Hello all,

I am writing my master's thesis on Michael Cunningham, and to make the thesis as good as possible, I am desperately looking for this article:

Author: Jarraway, David R. Year: 1996. Title: “’The Novel That Took the Place of a Poem’. Wallace Stevens and Queer Discourse.” The article has been published in English Studies in Canada, 22 (4 ( Read more... )

I am currently reading "Sodomy and the Pirate Tradition" by Barry R. Berg and, once again, I must say that I love learning history; it continually reaffirms and validates stuff I made up in total ignorance for the back-stories of my fictional characters.

( History of gay pirates... or is that gay pirate history? )

Amazon's algorithms keep pimping the following for me ( Read more... )

Hi, I just joined this community for suggestions and reading tips, etc. I'm getting a PhD in Creative Writing and one of my preliminary exams is going to be in Contemporary Queer Fiction. I have compiled a brief, preliminary list, and was wondering if you could give me advice--can you all recommend any titles that are vital and absent from my list ( Read more... )