The writing in The Dry Season is smart and funny, and it blooms on the page like acres of flowers.
REVIEW: The Dry Season: A Memoir of Pleasure in a Year Without Sex by Melissa Febos
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REVIEW: What My Father and I Don’t Talk About, Edited by Michele Filgate
Perhaps I was foolish to review this beautiful collection—my father died when I was 14, and the weight of what he and I can’t talk about is ever-present….
REVIEW: Deep House: The Gayest Love Story Ever Told by Jeremy Atherton Lin
Lin unleashes the full breadth of his research skills, unraveling the history of same-sex unions and the marriage equality movement…
REVIEW: Rage: On Being Queer, Black, Brilliant… and Completely Over It by Lester Fabian Brathwaite
Lester Fabian Brathwaite inhabits an intersection — a mother lode of bias — where racism, homophobia, ableism, and xenophobia collide.
REVIEW: Alligator Tears: A Memoir in Essays by Edgar Gomez
In seven sentences, just seventy-six words, I am haunted by my 1987 coming out moment.
REVIEW: The Loves of My Life: A Sex Memoir by Edmund White
I wasn’t expecting to laugh and learn my way through something subtitled A Sex Memoir.
REVIEW: Docile: Memoirs of a Not-So-Perfect Asian Girl by Hyeseung Song
Hyeseung is a first-generation American, born to Korean immigrant parents, and struggled with the unique culture shock that can result….
REVIEW: The Male Gazed by Manuel Betancourt
The memoir in essays examines how media and celebrities impact perceptions of same-sex desires and identity.
REVIEW: Without Saints: Essays by Christopher Locke
I could feel the first pages viscerally, the looming evil of a destructive faith present in the author’s youth as it had been in mine.
REVIEW: Halfway From Home: Essays by Sarah Fawn Montgomery
An artful variation of essay forms and poetic language mark this artfully written collection.
