I’m Open to Anything – William E. Jones
The book, both in its physicality and content, poses a challenge not to conservative forces who would immediately shut it down, but rather to progressive and “open-minded” people who support queer writing — but only if it’s “literary” and respectable.
In every trip to get punk t-shirts on Melrose or listen to Pink Floyd at Griffith Observatory she is not merely coming of age; she is coming of culture, of heritage, of community.
The Naked Woman – Armonía Somers
THE NAKED WOMAN continues to speak to us nowadays as fiercely and urgently as seventy years ago: more than ever, women’s bodies are the place of political battles that seek to change the way we understand desire, consent, and autonomy.
Recording for Maleney is the fold in time that bends toward the unrecoverable past.
Terra Nullius – Claire G. Coleman
It should come as no surprise that Coleman, an Australian Aboriginal author of the South Coast Noongar people, is particularly poised to enliven the tropes of the science fiction contact genre.
CRIMSON is a piece of literature that aims to make sense of queer experience by constructing a literary world adequate to house its complexities.
The heroine of MALVA is a fictional creation, and as a typical daughter, she is only too prepared to justify her father’s behavior.
The aims of the heroic age of Antarctic exploration are exposed by the writer as quests into nothingness.
Summer Cannibals – Melanie Hobson
SUMMER CANNIBALS, Melanie Hobson’s addition to the canon of Country Manors In Sharp Decline, proposes another reason for the downfall of polite society: the patriarchy itself.
Revenge of the Translator – Brice Matthieussent
You could also say that it was her most transgressive, subversive move to forego revenge, content instead to disappear.