Queer stories of the surreal, the fantastic, the horrible, and the heartbreaking. The queerness isn’t a plot point in most of the stories, it’s just there, like gravity or the weather. However fantastic the plot or unconventional the structure, the people are always at center.
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Writer and software engineer in the US Midwest. I enjoy poetry, horror, some f/sf, some mystery, some literary fiction (but not the kind where the main character is a professor and nothing happens).
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caracabe started reading The History of Surrealism by Maurice Nadeau
Maurice Nadeau: The History of Surrealism (Hardcover, 1968, The Macmillan Company)
The History of Surrealism by Maurice Nadeau
Maurice Nadeau's History of Surrealism, first published in French in 1944 and in English in 1965, has become a classic. …
A Queer History of the United States (ReVisioning American History) by Michael Bronski
"A Queer History of the United States is groundbreaking and accessible. It looks at how American culture has shaped the …
caracabe started reading full-metal indigiqueer by Joshua Whitehead
full-metal indigiqueer by Joshua Whitehead
This poetry collections focuses on a hybridized Indigiqueer Trickster character named Zoa who brings together the organic (the protozoan) and …
caracabe reviewed Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado
In Her Body and Other Parties, Carmen Maria Machado blithely demolishes the arbitrary borders …
Review of Her Body and Other Parties
caracabe finished reading Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado
Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado, Carmen Maria Machado
In Her Body and Other Parties, Carmen Maria Machado blithely demolishes the arbitrary borders between psychological realism and science …
caracabe started reading Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado
Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado, Carmen Maria Machado
In Her Body and Other Parties, Carmen Maria Machado blithely demolishes the arbitrary borders between psychological realism and science …
caracabe reviewed Go tell it on the mountain by James Baldwin
The story of John, a fourteen-year-old boy whose stepfather is a Pentecostal minister in Harlem …
Review of Go Tell it on the Mountain
Like the protagonist, John, I grew up in an ultra-religious Christian household. If you don’t have that background, this novel might not speak as directly and intimately to you as it does to me. I call John the protagonist, but there are multiple viewpoints, including John’s preacher stepfather, his reprobate aunt, and his mother. The story branches off from a church service into their various sins and sufferings, past and present. There are no easy answers here, only understanding. I cried more than once, sometimes while also laughing in recognition.
Like the protagonist, John, I grew up in an ultra-religious Christian household. If you don’t have that background, this novel might not speak as directly and intimately to you as it does to me. I call John the protagonist, but there are multiple viewpoints, including John’s preacher stepfather, his reprobate aunt, and his mother. The story branches off from a church service into their various sins and sufferings, past and present. There are no easy answers here, only understanding. I cried more than once, sometimes while also laughing in recognition.
caracabe finished reading Go tell it on the mountain by James Baldwin
Go tell it on the mountain by James Baldwin
The story of John, a fourteen-year-old boy whose stepfather is a Pentecostal minister in Harlem in 1935, as he struggles …
caracabe started reading Go tell it on the mountain by James Baldwin
Go tell it on the mountain by James Baldwin
The story of John, a fourteen-year-old boy whose stepfather is a Pentecostal minister in Harlem in 1935, as he struggles …
A Queer History of the United States (ReVisioning American History) by Michael Bronski
"A Queer History of the United States is groundbreaking and accessible. It looks at how American culture has shaped the …
caracabe finished reading Issues with Authority by Nadia Bulkin
Issues with Authority by Nadia Bulkin
Shirley Jackson Award-nominated author Nadia Bulkin's sophomore collection Issues With Authority drenches the reader in a sensory overload of power, …
caracabe reviewed Flight out of time by Hugo Ball
Hugo Balls Tagebauchaufzeichnungen aus den Jahren 1914 bis 1921 sind nicht nur Zeugnis der Zürcher …
Flight Out of Time wasted mine
Pebbles of brilliance in a muckheap of piety. Not worth the time I gave it.
caracabe finished reading Flight out of time by Hugo Ball
Flight out of time by Hugo Ball
Hugo Balls Tagebauchaufzeichnungen aus den Jahren 1914 bis 1921 sind nicht nur Zeugnis der Zürcher Dada-Bewegung, sondern auch eines deutschen …
caracabe started reading Issues with Authority by Nadia Bulkin
Issues with Authority by Nadia Bulkin
Shirley Jackson Award-nominated author Nadia Bulkin's sophomore collection Issues With Authority drenches the reader in a sensory overload of power, …