Queer Historical Fiction Recs for Pride Month (and Beyond)
Because love has always just been love
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Because love has always just been love

There’s a moment in Where the Wild Things Are, director Spike Jonze’s adaptation of the classic picture book by Maurice Sendak, in which Max, the wolf suit-wearing, mischief-making protagonist, stands on the kitchen counter and demands of his mother,

To you and yours, in the year ahead

Loving and losing my beautiful mother-in-law
It’s the first day back for my kids.
I think of them every year when the crocuses emerge.
In praise of geekery, weird and wonderful little communities, and deep passion
A bookish year-in-review

A few weeks ago I finally read Claire Keegan’s acclaimed and (appropriately) small-but-mighty novel, Small Things Like These.
“The first draft of anything is shit.”