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  Is This the Golden Era of Queer Literature?

  VOGUE.COM - Amelia Abraham

  “Queer writers have always been there, brave and unapologetic,” says Jackson Howard, a young, queer editor representing an impressive roster of LGBTQ+ writers at the publishing house Farrar, Straus & Giroux. “But if you look at canonical queer fiction writers, many had to fight and bounce around …

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  In Finishing My Book, I Rewrote the Story of My Own Life

  VOGUE.COM - Lauren McBrayer

  I’d never met a metaphor I didn’t like. I’d recently started going to the beach each night to do something I called “death practice,” an exercise that involved watching the sun disappear behind the ocean while I envisioned myself taking my final breaths. It was late summer in 2020, and it seemed …

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  Kalima DeSuze’s Juneteenth Reading List Is About Both History and Hope

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  Since opening in 2017, Kalima DeSuze’s Crown Heights bookstore and coffee shop Cafe con Libros has become a beloved haven for readers—in particular Black and Afro-Latinx women—looking for a space to dive into the very best that intersectional feminist literature has to offer. And thanks to her …

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  One World Will Posthumously Publish a Book by Virgil Abloh

  VOGUE.COM - Michelle Ruiz

  One World, an imprint of Penguin Random House, will posthumously publish Work in Progress, a book Virgil Abloh began writing before his death in 2021, the publisher has exclusively announced to Vogue. Work in Progress, co-authored by the late, visionary Off-White founder and artistic director of …

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  Ottessa Moshfegh on Process, Hollywood, and Disrespecting Authority

  VOGUE.COM - Elizabeth Nicholas

  Ottessa Moshfegh is known to many as the writer who best describes what it’s like “being alive when being alive feels terrible,” according to The New Yorker—and with a cast of characters including hyper-alcoholic divorcees, catatonic orphan party girls, and the clients of a what she calls a …

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  In ‘Open,’ Rachel Krantz Questions Our Quest for ‘The One’

  VOGUE.COM - Michelle Ruiz

  In 2015, writer Rachel Krantz was a 27-year-old serial monogamist just emerging from a relationship when she met a man she calls Adam (not his real name) on OKCupid. Eleven years her senior, Adam had Jake Gyllenhaalian bone structure and intellect to match, as an academic studying the psychology of …