What Has My Attention Today

It has been a good four days of reading and writing. Perhaps not reading and writing some of the things that I should be doing, but reading and writing things that bring joy and sustenance. I will reveal more as various projects reach fruition. In the meantime, some of the things that have had my attention online.

I’m fascinated by the economics of publishing and book selling so this piece in The New York Times about McNally’s bookstore was interesting. I note that I do not have as much to say about it as many of my friends do on Facebook.

Here is “A Reading List for a New Generation of Gay Men.” It begs for a lesbian counterpart, doesn’t it?

I loved Andrea Lawlor’s piece on being a parent and why her child Hart does not have two mommies. Smart and savvy writing.

Finally, I really loved Janet Mason’s piece on the new Nicole Brossard collection, White Piano (Coach House Books, 2013), and Joan Timberlake’s lesbian mystery, No Corpse Is an Island, (Blue Feather Books, 2013). An unexpected juxtaposition that works and invites great thinking about lesbian literature.

Now, I’m sipping a glass of champagne and getting ready for my conference double header. Split This Rock tomorrow and then A Revolutionary Moment: Women’s Liberation in the late 1960s and 1970s. I’ll be on twitter during both conferences and that will probably be the best way to reach me. More next week!

Filed under: lesbian, lesbian studies, scholarship