by Joanna Acevedo | Sep 5, 2023 | Book Reviews
Review of Phantom Advances by Mary Lynn Reed The stories in Phantom Advances, out now from Split Lip Press by debut author Mary Lynn Reed, are often hard to take. They are filled with yearning—frequently to an uncomfortable degree, and in many cases, they do not have... 
by Joanna Acevedo | Aug 15, 2023 | Book Reviews
Let’s Go Let’s Go Let’s Go by Cleo Qian Reviewed Cleo Qian’s Let’s Go Let’s Go Let’s Go, set alternately in Japan, China, Korea and America, is reminiscent of a disco ball—no matter which way you turn it, it remains luminous, catching the light and sending shards... 
by Joanna Acevedo | Jul 17, 2023 | Interviews
Interview with Allison Blevins, author of Cataloguing Pain Your work is classified as a lyric memoir. Can you speak to this definition and what genre means to you (and as a queer person, potentially)? I wanted to tell our story—my story, my husband’s... 
by Joanna Acevedo | Jun 27, 2023 | Book Reviews
Norman Erikson Pasaribu’s Happy Stories Mostly Anthology Reviewed The stories in Happy Stories, Mostly, which is forthcoming from Feminist Press this June, are not happy—they do not even pretend to be happy. No, most of these stories are tragic—within these... 
by Joanna Acevedo | May 1, 2023 | Book Reviews
A Review of Journal Of A Black Queer Nurse by Britney Daniels Britney Daniels’ Journal of A Black Queer Nurse, forthcoming from Common Notions in May 2023, promises to deliver, and it does. Daniels is a conversational, likable writer from start to finish, but the...
