On Never Leaving San Francisco
On Never Leaving San Francisco Sal Moon Boots with the 415 area code was trying hard to be weird and woke. That’s why she adopted a stupid new name. That’s why she referred to her straight boyfriend as her “partner.” I didn’t mind being called a gentrifier...
Review of Matthew Clark Davison’s Doubting Thomas
Review of Matthew Clark Davison’s Doubting Thomas What happens when a gay male teacher is accused of molesting his male 4th grade student by the boy’s parents? In Matthew Clark Davison’s debut novel, Doubting Thomas, this nightmare unfolds before Thomas...
Do You Have a Plan?
Do You Have a Plan? My housemate Lynette had badgered me for a month to attend her 12-step meeting and I had said yes. We walked into a suburban California community room paneled in manufactured wood. A mix of people were arranging metal chairs into a circle....
Our Protections are Earthly: N/A Oparah’s Thick Skin
Our Protections are Earthly: N/A Oparah’s Thick Skin To describe the basic premise of N/A Oparah’s highly metaphorical, lyrical novella, it would be familiar stuff: a young woman is dumped by her boyfriend, with most of the story following Nneka as she struggles,...
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Foglifter
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Sparkling new queer Asian literature? Let’s GO!![]()
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Check out Joanna Acevedo’s review of Cleo Qian (@clllqian)’s debut short story collection, “LET'S GO LET'S GO LET'S GO” on the Foglifter blog. Released by Tin House, this electric collection is full of dating simulations, social experiments, supernatural karaoke machines, and so much more. ![]()
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“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 of brilliance into the air...We, the reader, are looking at these women. Perhaps we are the only ones who are. They ache to be seen, and as welook at them, we learn more about what it means to look, to be overlooked, what it means to be a woman, what it means to be a minority, and somehow, we learn more about ourselves as well.”![]()
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