two particularly cool recent things: the Wisconsin Library Association gave DL an Outstanding Achievement Award, in some extraordinarily humbling company (Lauren Groff jfc)
placeholder post (will do longer one next week): it's officially been a year since DRY LAND, my debut novel, appeared with the lovely U of Wisconsin Press! more people than I could've imagined have read my bittersweet little trees book, & I am very grateful uwpress.wisc.edu/books/6180.htm
I quietly passed 3 years on testosterone this summer & was too busy to note it publicly, so doing so now by reposting my little Dante coming-out essay. being trans remains life-changing & I remain incredibly grateful for it.
For years Iâve been mildly obsessed with canto 30 of Danteâs Purgatorioâin particular, what happens to Virgil afterwards. In the canto, Virgil has led Dante up mount purgatory to the edenic garden tha...
âThe Spindle of Necessityâ by B. Pladek from Strange Horizons, âWe Shall Drink Wineâ by Andrew K Hoe from Beneath Ceaseless Skies, and more short fic recs from @ClowderofTwo here - locusmag.com/2024/09...
Escape Pod 5/16/24 Strange Horizons 5/20/24, 5/27/24, 6/10/24, 6/17/24 Beneath Ceaseless Skies 5/30/24, 6/13/24 Rocky Cornelius returns to Escape Pod with AnÂdrew Dana Hudsonâs May story, âThe ConcâŚ
<3 <3 thank you!! that means the world to hear.
here's the story! it's about a trans guy who dream-meets a beloved author he thinks was trans too, & about what books and history can (& can't) do for us. this one's very special to me -- if you read one thing from me this year, please read this. strangehorizons.com/fiction/the-...
Andrew was convinced the writer had been trans. By this point his friends were tired of hearing about it, but he had no one else to tell besides the internet, and he was too smart for that. That woâŚ
TYSM to @cypayseur.bsky.social@strangehorizons.bsky.social story "The Spindle of Necessity"! "does an incredible job of handling the complexities of gender, discourse, desire, and identity through the lens of literary obsession. I really canât recommend this one enough."
Escape Pod 5/16/24 Strange Horizons 5/20/24, 5/27/24, 6/10/24, 6/17/24 Beneath Ceaseless Skies 5/30/24, 6/13/24 Rocky Cornelius returns to Escape Pod with AnÂdrew Dana Hudsonâs May story, âThe ConcâŚ
I love this aching little story!!
"That is my curse, I lie to myself, this is my inheritance, my lifelong bequest: a full-mouthed body, a whole-bodied mouth. Who gave it to me, this malediction?" "Cursed Moon Queers" @uncannymagazine.bsky.social I poured all my heart into this one, folks đ¤đđłď¸âđđđ¤ www.uncannymagazine.com/article/curs...
Iâm getting ready for the block party: dark eyeliner, obligatory silver glitter (weâre on the moon, after all, we have our fashions), beard trimmed to perfection, hair carefully dishevelled. I do my b...
He does say just thatâgenre fiction doesnât broadly share this problem and he is speaking specifically to literary realist fiction; hence Zola and Wharton as his interlocutors.
I just finished a novel that's sorta abt why "am I capital-G good?" is so compelling a question but also a moral distraction, & I constantly had to fight a weird terror that I myself was somehow not-Good for even asking the question. Feels like a metaphor for where we're at, somehow.