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Lay It Down

People love John Samson Fellows’s music. He doesn’t want to make it anymore.

Out Around the Bay

When Wanda bought the house, she didn’t imagine that anyone in the community would recognize that she and Lynn were queer.

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Life and Death in Children’s Books

There are books for kids simply about trucks being trucks. Then there are cautionary tales like the one in which a boy gets his fingers cut off for being a picky eater—stories about cause and effect, separation from loved ones, stealing, and death. But what’s better than books to ruin a child’s innocence?

Great Writers Make Lousy Lovers

Literary writing about sex is rare and usually fails to do justice to the act itself. Is honest writing about sex impossible? Or do authors simply need to do a little more sinning?