Brandon Taylor revisits the world of young people in academic settings struggling to keep it together while fracturing internally in his sophomore effort, the short fiction collection, Filthy Animals. Lionel, who appears in five of the eleven stories in this collection, somewhat resembles Wallace, the protagonist from Taylor’s debut novel, Real Life. Both are black… Continue reading Filthy Animals by Brandon Taylor
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In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado
Purchase a copy for yourself here! In the Dream House is a memoir which seeks to end what its author calls the “archival silence” surrounding queer domestic abuse stories. Carmen Maria Machado weaves the tale of her own history with same-sex domestic abuse, specifically the abuse she suffered at the hands of ‘the woman from… Continue reading In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado