Category: Fiction

Aoibheann Sweeney | Among Other Things, I’ve Taken Up Smoking | Critically acclaimed by reviewers across the country, Aoibheann Sweeneys beautifully written debut novel is a story of the profound human need for int

Sarah Schulman | Shimmer | Shimmer is the fifth (and, to date, best) novel from Sarah Schulman, the lesbian bard of contemporary urban fiction. Set in Manhattan during th

Patricia Nell Warren | The Beauty Queen | Ex-beauty queen Jeannie Colter is a born-again politician who hates homosexuals, and wants to crush them. William Laird is her devoted father – a weal

Virginia Woolf | Mrs Dalloway | ‘Fear no more the heat of the sun.’ Mrs Dalloway, Virginia Woolf’s fourth novel, offers the reader an impression of a single June day in London in 192

David Leavitt | Equal Affections | Plot summary

Louise, an aging woman, is coming down with cancer. Her husband Nat is having an affair with another woman. Meanwhile, Walter, partne

Olivia | Olivia | When Olivia turns sixteen she is sent to a Parisian finishing school to broaden her education. Soon after her arrival, she finds herself falling under

Lee Lynch | Toothpick House | Annie Heaphy, cab driving baby butch, lives a life of freedom in a shack on the Connecticut coast. Her dislike of “Yalies” and all they represent exte

Michelle Tea | Rose of No Man’s Land |