Justin Torres

Dec 2, 2024 | newsroom.ucla.edu | Fiona Ruane |Justin Torres

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Sep 9, 2024 | electricliterature.com | Yasunari Kawabata |Sherrie Flick |Sandra Cisneros |Justin Torres

Reading Lists These writers prove that you don’t need a lot of words to write a good story Flash fiction is a form that often skirts the line between narrative poetry and short fiction, offering a depth of narrative and poetic expression. When I think about books that have had the most palpable impact on me, I realize that many of them use innovative forms. And many of the most memorable flash fiction books combine form and content in unexpected ways. Betsy Reed argued that one of most...

Jul 25, 2024 | electricliterature.com | Justin Torres |Amelia Possanza |Saidiya Hartman |Hugh Ryan

For me, queerness has always been related to imagination. Like many of us, I grew up without a blueprint for a queer life. In the evangelical household I was raised in, I had to dream my queerness into existence, conjure a life that was forbidden to me, claim it because no one was ever going to give it to me. This has been true for so many of us, now and in the past, as we’ve existed outside of and beyond the boundaries of what our world calls normal and good.

Mar 27, 2024 | lrb.co.uk | Justin Torres |Emily Witt

Jan Gay​ was born Helen Reitman in Leipzig in 1902. She came out as a lesbian in young adulthood, studied under the German sexologist Magnus Hirshfield, started a nudist colony with her partner, Zhenya, and eventually collected interviews with hundreds of queer women in European cities, in the hope that writing up their sexual histories would help make lesbianism more accepted.

Dec 28, 2023 | saveourserotonin.substack.com | Justin Torres |R. Eric Thomas |Richard Mirabella |Melissa Broder

I was originally going to be cute and roundup twenty-three of my favorite reads from 2023, but doing so would have done a great disservice to the remaining bevy of breathtaking books I’ve devoured this year. Even narrowing it down to thirty was difficult, as I have read sixty-four books this year, which is less than my yearly average of around eighty.