Anatomy of a murder
(Image courtesy W.W. Norton) You always hold doors open. That’s because your mama taught you to help others. You hold doors for stragglers, lend your ear, dispense advice, volunteer, donate and keep an...
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(Courtesy Little, Brown) Historical fiction is all the rage these days in publishing and acclaimed novelist Emma Donoghue, a lesbian whose been widely lauded within the LGBT literary world, enters the...
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Author Kim Fu (Photo by Laura D’Allesandro; courtesy Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) ‘For Today I Am a Boy’ By Kim Fu Houghton Mifflin Harcourt $23 242 pages You’ve planned for it, dreamed of it,...
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(Image courtesy William Morrow) ‘All I Love and Know’ By Judith Frank William Morrow $26.99 432 pages Lots of LGBT people are honored to be godparents. Although we’re having more of our own...
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(Photo courtesy Minotaur Books) ‘The Old Deep and Dark’ By Ellen Hart c.2014, Minotaur Books $25.99/ 296 pages Your favorite Hollywood star is in the headlines – again. By now, it shouldn’t...
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(Image courtesy Pulp) ‘Alice + Freda Forever: A Murder in Memphis’ By Alexis Coe, illustrations by Sally Klann Pulp, an imprint of Zest Books $16.99 223 pages Sooner or later, it happens to...
View ArticleOut author appears at new D.C. book shop
Gregg Shapiro reads and discusses his new book “How to Whistle” at East City Bookshop (645 Pennsylvania Ave., S.E.) on Thursday, Sept. 1 from 6:30-8 p.m. “How to Whistle” is a collection of short...
View ArticleAuthor recalls beatings, discrimination in memoir
‘Punch Me Up to the Gods: A Memoir’By Brian Broomec.2021, HMH Books$26/272 pages Little kids have it so easy. Somebody feeds them when they’re hungry, does their laundry, buys them toys, and plays...
View ArticleFairfax schools returns LGBTQ-themed books in high school libraries
The Fairfax County Public Schools announced on Tuesday that following a detailed review by two committees appointed by school officials it has returned two LGBTQ themed books to its high school...
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You knew this was coming. You knew that you were going to have to finish your holiday shopping soon but it snuck up on you, didn’t it? And even if you’re close to being done, there are always those...
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