Michele Karlsberg // Posts published by Michele Karlsberg
Patricia Grayhall on Defying Norms
Patricia Grayhall is a medical doctor and author of Making the Rounds; Defying Norms in Love and Medicine
Revealing Lesbian Novel by Melanie Mitzner
Slow Reveal by Melanie Mitzner Set in 1990s New York, Slow Reveal paints an extraordinary portrait of artists who defy the arbiters of culture and challenge social norms. Art, addiction, and family dynamics capsize the Kane’s when they discover the parallel life of Katharine, film editor, mother, lover, and wife. “A poem is never finished, only […]
Water Lessons for National Poetry Month
Water Lessons By Lisa Dordal Through deeply personal and culturally grounded narratives, Water Lessons explores the relationship between reality and imagination, faith and doubt, presence and absence, as the speaker grapples with multiple dimensions of grief arising from her mother’s alcoholism and eventual death; her father’s deepening dementia; and her own childlessness. Against the backdrop […]
Barbara Wilson & the Cassandra Reilly Series
Barbara Wilson is the author of seven previous mysteries, including Gaudà Afternoon, which introduced translator sleuth Cassandra Reilly and was made into a movie starring Judy Davis and Marcia Gay Hardin. She is a winner of two Lambda Literary awards and the British Crime Writers’ award for best thriller set in Europe. As Barbara Sjoholm, […]
Lesbian Comic Still Sexy at 86
So, there was this circle of bareback nuns, whipping ourselves, trying to keep quiet because we didn’t want to give too much pleasure to the sadistic nuns listening outside the door...
Pamela Means and The Reparations
Pamela Means has been in the music scene for decades. With the release of her new album it is time to spread the good word and indulge in her music! The acclaimed singer-songwriter, jazz musician, and activist, has released, Pamela Means and The Reparations, “Live at Northfire,†her tenth album. An in-studio performance, recorded live, […]
Robin Hopkins & Jaimie Kelton on LGBTQ Families
Robin and Jaimie have put together a masterpiece. It’s funny. It’s informative. It’s brutally honest.
Bodies & Barriers: Queer Activists on Health
Between COVID-19 and actions by the Trump administration to roll back LGBT health protections, healthcare has been front and center on our mind these last few months. The critically-acclaimed new anthology Bodies and Barriers: Queer Activists on Health (PM Press) is timely. This book is edited by Adrian Shanker, executive director of Bradbury-Sullivan LGBT Community […]
A Delicious Excerpt from “Failure to Appear”
Excerpt from FAILURE TO APPEAR by Emily L. Quint Freeman I thread my way to a booth, as spotlights illuminate the stage in alternating red, white, and blue. Three drag queens strut onto the stage as confetti falls from the ceiling, the crowd roaring its approval. The DJ puts on “Lola†by the Kinks at […]
A sexy excerpt from ‘Making Out’
Mid-kiss, do you ever wonder who you are, who you’re kissing, where it’s leading? It can feel luscious, libidinal, friendly, but are we trying to make out something through our kissing? For Kathryn Bond Stockton, making out is a prism through which to look at the cultural and political forces of our world: race, economics, […]
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