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Nov 25, 2024 | 
yahoo.com | Ilana Masad |Sarah Neilson |Michael Cuby |Ana Osorno |Wesley Johnson |Sam Riedel | +1 more
All products featured on them. are independently selected by them. editors. However, when you buy something through our retail links, Condé Nast may earn an affiliate commission. Courtesy of the publishers. Between Brittney Griner’s powerful memoir about her time in Russian detention, Geoffrey Mak’s journey inside the legendary nightclub Berghain, and Nicole Maines’ trans superhero origin story, 2024 had as many kinds of queer books as there are queer readers.
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Nov 25, 2024 | 
them.us | Ilana Masad |Sarah Neilson |Michael Cuby |Ana Osorno |Wesley Johnson |Samantha Riedel | +1 more
From memoir to poetry to dystopian fiction, this year had something for every kind of queer reader.
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Sep 27, 2024 | 
seattletimes.com | Sarah Neilson
Redmond writer and poet Lena Khalaf Tuffaha cares a lot about the power of language. Her work — which includes poetry collections, essays, book reviews and translations — is engaged with the power and art of words. Her latest collection, “Something About Living” (out now from University of Akron Press), is long-listed for the 2024 National Book Award for poetry.
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Jun 25, 2024 | 
seattletimes.com | Sarah Neilson
Seattle has no shortage of literary culture. In fact, it was designated as a UNESCO City of Literature in 2017. It also has a rich LGBTQ+ history and culture. When the two overlap, it makes for that much more magic. In celebration of Pride Month, we asked five local writers and booksellers what they consider essential LGBTQ+ reading, and the new and forthcoming stories they’re excited about. Responses have been edited for length and clarity.
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Mar 7, 2024 | 
them.us | Sarah Neilson
Willow Defebaugh’s debut book The Overview began as a series of meditations on the world around us. In a weekly newsletter, the Atmos editor-in-chief penned a series of intimate meditations on spiritual ecology, transness, the climate crisis, and more.
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Mar 7, 2024 | 
yahoo.com | Sarah Neilson
Willow Defebaugh’s debut book The Overview began as a series of meditations on the world around us. In a weekly newsletter, the Atmos editor-in-chief penned a series of intimate meditations on spiritual ecology, transness, the climate crisis, and more.
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Jan 28, 2024 | 
shondaland.com | Sarah Neilson
Daniel de la Luna, the protagonist of Andrés N. Ordorica’s debut novel, How We Named the Stars, has some things in common with the author. Both carry their ancestors’ names, both experienced loss at a young age, and both are queer. But the moving and engrossing journey that Ordorica sets Daniel on is the stuff of great fiction.
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Jan 24, 2024 | 
shondaland.com | Sarah Neilson
Writing a book is no small feat, especially as a new author. The late nights, the revisions, the self-doubt — all for the glory of seeing your book in the hands of enthusiastic readers. With that in mind, each month Shondaland’s Authors to Watch series highlights an exciting debut writer whose work we want to recognize. Let’s welcome these new voices on the literary horizon together.
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Jan 23, 2024 | 
shondaland.com | Sarah Neilson
Antonio Sonoro, the patriarch at the center of Elizabeth Gonzalez James’ stunning new novel, The Bullet Swallower, is a self-proclaimed bandido (an outlaw). Living in the fluid Mexico-Texas borderlands in the late 1800s, he is a model of machismo. At the start of the novel, he is in dire straits as his wife and young child are trying to survive a drought.
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Jan 18, 2024 | 
shondaland.com | Sarah Neilson
Álvaro Enrigue is a prolific author and scholar of Mexican history. In his new novel, You Dreamed of Empires, translated from Spanish by Natasha Wimmer, Enrigue reimagines the expedition of Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés, who led one of the first European expeditions to the Americas, ushering in the brutal colonization of Mexico in 1519 — specifically the Aztec city of Tenochtitlán, which is now modern-day Mexico City.
