Written by Jeff Rose The work of queer and indigenous poet Tommy Pico fangirls over the songs of Amy Winehouse in one stanza, claps back at gay men in the next, and then ruminates over Native American microaggressions. His work delves into his identity and experiences as a gay Kumeyaay man originally from the Viejas…
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Written by Jeff Rose Discussions on the importance of LGBTQ+ representation and accurate media portrayals and novel adaptations continue to dominate much of literary culture today. Neil Gaiman and N. K. Jemisin recently talked about these issues in a discussion posted on LitHub. As someone who read Gaiman’s The Sandman as a teenager, it was…
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Written by Jeff Rose With the recent success from the movie Call Me by Your Name, the book by Andre Aciman has surged in popularity. However, the film and book has been critiqued for several reasons, most notably the seven-year age gap of the two main characters and the fact it’s not breaking new ground…
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Written by Jeff Rose In this installment of our Problematic Literary Faves column, I’d like to discuss Orson Scott Card, an author most famous for a little novel called Ender’s Game. He also happens to be very outspoken about his opposition to homosexuality and same-sex marriage. From 2009 to 2013, Card was a board director…
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Written by Jeff Rose A recent Dallas Morning News article reports that many surprising books are banned from Texas prisons (like a book of Shakespearean sonnets and The Color Purple, while books like Adolf Hitler’s Mein Kampf and some works produced by Ku Klux Klan are not. Sounds off, right? The Texas Department of Criminal…
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