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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.

Dressing Not to be Noticed

A consideration of what it means to be "clothing neutral," or dressing to be invisible, leads to the poetry of Sonnet L'Abbé and the realization that so many dress codes have one thing in common—a fear of the female ass.

How Well Do You Know Her?

This is our second installment of Tabloid Fiction, in which an author chooses from the trashiest, most lurid, or just bizarre stories of the moment and writes a short story inspired by same.

What Machiavelli Might Say About Obama vs. Romney

The author of Malice of Fortune, a new novel that throws Niccolo Machiavelli and Leonardo da Vinci together in the midst a murder mystery-cum-political thriller, wonders what the author of The Prince would make of the 2012 U.S. presidential campaign.

On Writing a Creep

Because sometimes a writer needs to spend years living with a loathsome character.