I’ve got a new book out, y’all. Straight: The Surprisingly Short History of Heterosexuality has dropped. I could not be more thrilled, I really truly couldn’t. It’s in the New York Times! It’s also in Haaretz. And in PW’s Tip Sheet. Also in the EDGE papers (scroll down). I debuted the book, actually, this past Friday, [...]
I’m delighted to let you know that a sneak preview of my forthcoming Straight: The Surprisingly Short History of Heterosexuality is now up online for your reading pleasure! Check it out here: http://www.scribd.com/doc/75045025/Straight-Introduction Heterosexuality is not a fact of nature, it’s a nineteenth-century invention, only about as old as the traffic light. In this surprising chronicle, historian [...]
Inspired, in part, by this wonderful photo of Woody Guthrie’s magnificent list of New Years Rulin’s (originally found here), I thought I would share with you a few of my own New Years Rules. Not resolutions, you note. Just… rules. Which I think are more useful than resolutions. Do something every day that makes [...]
We seem to be rolling through the last week of 2011 at a barrelling clip. I’m going hammer and tongs at a bunch of things, all at once, and some of them are really big and kind of scary. Some of them are the kinds of things where I am just taking a deep [...]
From the Magick4Terri auction: Beloved editor, artist and writer Terri Windling is in need, and we are asking for your help in a fundraising auction to assist her. This auction will combine donations from professionals and fans in an online sale to help Terri through a serious financial crisis. Terri is the creator of groundbreaking [...]
Happy Monday, my dears. I would be remiss not to remind you all that signups for the Commie Pinko Writing Contest are still open. We’re about halfway full on fiction, so if you’re thinking about being a fictionaut with us, now’s the time to get in while the getting’s good. There are scads of nonfic [...]
Let the merry frolic commence! Signups are now open for the 2012 Commie Pinko Writing Contest! What is the Commie Pinko, you ask? Well, it’s a writing contest I dreamed up a buncha years back, on the premise that writing contests would be a lot more fun if you actually got to read what other [...]
It’s been rather a while since I’ve posted a recipe here, hasn’t it? I apologize that this wasn’t available before Thanksgiving, but truth be told I invented this pie for my own Thanksgiving table and so it simply wasn’t around long enough in advance for me to share it with you in time for that. [...]
To those of you who celebrate it, Happy American Thanksgiving. I celebrate it aware of the great historical and continuing problems it often subsumes in a tide of compulsory consumption, but also aware, and in great gratitude, for the chance to spend time with people I love, enjoying good food and what is one of [...]
I’ve just gotten home from my road trip. For those of you who couldn’t make it, here’s a photo of Elizabeth, the events manager at the wondrous Charis Books, introducing my reading. The photo was taken by my lovely, talented, and stylish assistant Alysia. Apparently she also took a closeup of my fishnet-clad legs at [...]