Volume 3, No. 26: Reading Queer Lit with Abandon

A midyear reading check-in

Greetings, book people! I’m writing this newsletter on one of the U.S.’s trash holidays. There are so many of them. That’s what happens when you found a country on racism and genocide, write a mythology about how it was actually founded on freedom and democracy, and then commemorate those myths with celebrations. I am not about it.

Also: why fireworks? My poor pup. This is always relevant (and brilliant).

I’ve been thinking a lot these past few weeks about the shape of this newsletter. I can feel myself on the edge of some kind of shift, although I’m not exactly sure what it is, or where it’s taking me. When I decided to write essays every other week at the beginning of this year, it was because I wanted a space to be a little freer, to explore books and ideas in depth. I’ve enjoyed doing so, and I hope you’ve enjoyed my words as well. But I’ve also learned that I can’t churn one pieces like these twice a month.

Not reviewing 12-15 books a month for regular newsletter issues has also bee…