The Book Hook: Books as Resistance
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“You Don't Believe a Curvy Woman Can Do Things”
Victoria S. Walsh has a room in her house just for her dresses. Her friends can use it, if they’re close enough to her size. Her sister-in-law plans to borrow something out of it in a few weeks.
It started with a corset for a D&D night in...
What "Worldly" Really Means
In the faith Tamara Jong grew up in, there was no hellfire. There was Armageddon: the destruction of the wicked, the ungodly, anyone who’d drifted too far from the truth. As a kid, she says, that was the terrifying part — not death itself,...
"It's Not About Coveting a Label, It’s About Trying Not To Hate Yourself”
Julie M. Green did not get angry.
She was diagnosed autistic at 44 — late, by any measure, and a full decade after her son’s own diagnosis — and when I ask her how that felt, I’m braced for the answer I’ve heard from almost every late-diag...
“Lesbian Pirates Is the Single Best Tagline I've Ever Written"
It began as a joke: The Princess Bride would have been a much shorter story if there had been more lesbians involved.
Westley doesn’t have a plan, Temple says. He climbs the Cliffs of Insanity, shows up, and somehow Buttercup is rescued. A...
Nobody Was Going to Write It For Her: Anuja Varghese on A Kiss of Crimson Ash, Queer Romantasy, and Deciding to Tell the Story Yourself
Anuja Varghese tells me she started writing A Kiss of Crimson Ash because she was sad.
Her short story collection was in a drawer. She’d sent it out herself — no agent, just the submissions queue and the silence that follows — and she had...
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Thoughtful conversations for critical readers. I’m your host, KJ Aiello and in the Book Hook Podcast, I interview contemporary authors and thought leaders, exploring how literature becomes an act of resistance right on the page
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