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On Queer Joy in Literature
Guillaume Dustan's Nicholas Pages (1999, trans 2023)
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On Decadence
Gabriele D’Annunzio’s Pleasures (1889)
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My queerness is not a vice, is not deliberate, and harms no one
Women Lovers, or the Third Lover, by Natalie Barney
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In Defense of Leaving San Francisco
I’m sorry my regular posting schedule was completely out-of-sync this week.
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An Extraordinary Writer, An Ordinary Person
Violette Leduc's La BΓ’tarde
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The Most Substackian Novel
The Most Secret Memory of Men: Mohamed Mbougar Sarr
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A Lesbian Literary Trope: Boarding Schools, Underaged Girls, and Morality
The history of the trope, through Olivia by Dorothy Strachey & ThéreΜ€se et Isabelle by Violette Leduc
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My Best and Worst Reads of 2024
Yes, another list, and it's later than most
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The Rape Novel: A Personal Story
The reality of rape through Lin Yi-Han's Fang Si Chi's First Love Paradise
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December 2024

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