Happy end of the year! I may not be the big, annually anticipated book list, but at least I’m consistent in recommending great creative nonfiction! It felt especially pertinent to read lots of work by other queer and trans authors in 2025, given the war that’s been waged against us. My (big gay) book, NoContinue reading “My Top 12 CNF Reads of 2025”
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My 2024 in Books
Switching it up (just slightly) to bring you my 9 favorite memoirs I read in 2024 in no particular order cause wow, they were all so good. Plus a bonus of my 3 favorite works of fiction I read this year. As usual, each book is accompanied by my favorite line from it. Re-visiting theseContinue reading “My 2024 in Books”
REVIEW: HONEY GIRL Highlights the Importance of Found Family in Our Twenty-Somethings
“God bless these twenty-somethings” SZA sings on the final track of her groundbreaking 2017 album, CTRL, and though it’s a four-year-old song, it feels like the soundtrack to Morgan Rogers’ brilliant 2021 debut novel, Honey Girl. Honey Girl tells the story of Grace Porter, a queer Black woman in her late twenties who works herContinue reading “REVIEW: HONEY GIRL Highlights the Importance of Found Family in Our Twenty-Somethings”