In One Brief Moment All Eternity is a fictionalised account of Gustave Flaubert’s life, constructed through an omniscient narrative and a chorus of approximately thirty female and non-human voices. The novel combines literary biography, feminist revisionism, historical fiction, magical realism and reflections on the relationship between writers and their creations. Its central conceit is that […]
Alex is a comic, hyper-analytical campus novel about Willa, a young queer woman in her final year at a small liberal-arts college she calls “the fake place,” and her obsessive, mostly unreciprocated attachment to Alex Dean, a nonbinary student with blond curls, a gap between their teeth, a sexually adventurous reputation, and very little interest […]
This is is a queer love story framed as an act of literary correction. It opens with an interview transcript about a newly published book that claims to reveal the true story behind Ellis Williams, a famous musician, his legendary album Over and Over, and the woman everyone believed inspired it: Holland Smith. The interviewer […]
Wife & Wife opens in 2011 with eighty-one-year-old Ruth Wolfe standing outside the New York City Clerk’s Office on the first day same-sex marriage is legal in New York. She watches gay couples emerge newly married, applauded by supporters and heckled by protesters. The sight stirs in her wonder, fear, envy, and disbelief: after a […]