This Queer Book Saved My Life
Fans of On Being and Los Culturistas love this 2024 GLAAD Media Award nominee for Outstanding Podcast. Featuring Carmen Maria Machado, Alison Bechdel, Jennifer Finney Boylan, Greg Louganis, Becky Albertalli, and so many more, guests from across the rainbow tell these authors how their books helped them overcome alienation, gender dysphoria, familial homophobia, and being outed. Essayist and Lambda Literary Fellow John Parker hosts the conversations with a gentle and energetic style, standing in as conversational partner for posthumous authors. Stay tuned to off-weeks which features new episodes of 7 Minutes in Book Heaven and The Gaily Show.
This Queer Book Saved My Life
Latest Episodes
The Gaily Show: How to Close a Camp: Dispatches from the Fight Against Immigrant Detention
A new episode of This Queer Book Saved My Life drops September 29th! In our off weeks we air episodes from The Gaily Show. It's the only daily LGBTQ news and talk show in the US! John hosts it and it airs on AM950-KTNF (Minneapolis), WCPT 820 A...
Fingersmith with Kim van Alkemade
How do I be a lesbian, and a writer, at the same time?Today we meet Kim van Alkemade and we’re talking about the queer book that saved her life: Fingersmith by Sarah Waters.Kim is the author of the novels Orphan 8
A Boy's Own Story with Greg Howard
This book told me I was not alone and it set me on a journey of queer lit.Today we meet Greg Howard and we’re talking about the queer book that saved his life: A Boy's Own Story by Edmund White.Greg’s critically acclaimed...
