In 69 Barrow Street, Sheldon Lord (Lawrence Block) delivers another slice of mid-century Greenwich Village life, blending the “small town in a big city” atmosphere with the transgressive edge typical of 1960s pulp. The story centers on a specific address that serves as a crossroads for a variety of “lost souls” and bohemians. While the … Read more
In 50 Gay and Lesbian Books Everybody Must Read, Richard Canning curates an essential roadmap through the queer literary landscape. Rather than a simple list, the book is a collection of fifty succinct essays written by a diverse group of critics, authors, and public figures. These contributors dive into works ranging from the ancient (like … Read more
In 2nd Fiddle by Kate Calloway, private investigator Cassidy James returns for her second outing, this time dealing with the fallout of a high-profile kidnapping. When a wealthy local businessman’s daughter is snatched, the police are quick to focus on the obvious leads, but Cassidy suspects there is a more intimate betrayal at play. As … Read more
In 21 Gay Street, Sheldon Lord (a pseudonym for mystery legend Lawrence Block) provides a voyeuristic, “beatnik” look at Greenwich Village life in the late 1950s. The story follows Joyce Kendall, a fresh-faced college graduate from Iowa who arrives in New York for a job at a “true confessions” magazine. She finds a room in … Read more
In 1st Impressions, by Kate Calloway, rookie private investigator Cassidy James trades her quiet life in Cedar Hills, Oregon, for a high-stakes murder case that hits closer to home than she’d like. After the mutilated body of a wealthy local is pulled from a lake, Cassidy is hired to find the killer—by the prime suspect … Read more
In 13 Bullets, David Wellington strips away the romanticized, sparkly tropes of modern vampires and returns to something much grittier and more terrifying. The story follows Laura Caxton, a federal marshal who gets pulled into a nightmare when a routine traffic stop reveals that the vampires everyone thought were extinct are very much alive—and incredibly … Read more
In (Sem)Erotics, Elizabeth Meese pushes past traditional literary boundaries to explore the intimate friction between language and lesbian desire. Rather than offering a dry academic study or a straightforward story, she treats the act of writing itself as an erotic performance. The book reads like a deep, intellectual meditation where the “lesbian” isn’t just a … Read more
Lexi would do anything to keep her broken family together. Almost.
Elise, a mortal girl who feels the death of anyone she touches, and Claire, the vampire assigned to recruit her to the Veil, must work together to stop a paranormal killer even as they realize they might be falling in love.
Detective Cal Dempsey has spent twenty years building walls between her work and her life.