Tag: Awst Press
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Edward M. Cohen’s Before Stonewall, an Awst Press novel selected by T Kira Madden, reviewed by Stephanie Bohland
A life in the closet, a life before Stonewall, was an act of performativity—a daily exercise in trying to simultaneously resist, and exist within, heteronormative expectations. Edward M. Cohen’s Before Stonewall is a collection of vignettes from a world before the gay liberation movement and the fourteen stories within his book, all brought together through…
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Becca Yenser on Reading Brian Phillip Whalen’s Semiotic Love [Stories]
“We tell ourselves stories in order to live.” So writes Joan Didion in her book, The White Album. That statement holds true for Semiotic Love [Stories], in which Brian Phillip Whalen meticulously records his losses like a man trying to save his life. In a series of vignettes, Whalen transmits signals of grief like a…
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