Hamilton Review of Books Podcast – Season 3, Episode 3 "Queer Literature" featuring Shawn Mooney

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July 8, 2024

Reading Queer Lit with Shawn Mooney

We are joined by Shawn Mooney, the host of the fantastic BookTube channel, Shawn Breathes Books to talk about Queer Literature, why it's having its moment and why it's important for us to be reading it!

Podcasts Mentioned

Lindy Magpie Reads

Books Mentioned

Trans writers/novels

Detransition, Baby by Torrey Peters

Little Blue Encyclopedia (for Vivian) by Hazel Jane Plante

Little Fish by Casey Plett

Freshwater by Akwaeke Emezi

Gay male writers/authors/subjects

Édouard Louis

• Change: A Method, translation by John Lambert

• The End of Eddy translation by Michael Lucey

• History of Violence translation by Michael Lucey (Shawn's full review)

Afterparties by Anthony Veasna So

Thomas Grattan

• The Recent East (Shawn's interview about this novel with the author)

• In Tongues (Shawn’s interview with the author about this novel)

Billy-Ray Belcourt

Christopher DiRaddo

• The Family Way

• The Geography of Pluto (Shawn's full review)

And Then He Sang a Lullaby by Ani Kayode Somtochukwu

Now and Then by William Corlett (Shawn's chat with Ericka Seidemann about this novel)

Danny Ramadan

• The Clothesline Swing

• The Foghorn Echoes

• Crooked Teeth: A Queer Syrian Refugee Memoir (Shawn's “mystery guest” chat with Danny about Crooked Teeth)

The Sleeping Car Porter by Suzette Mayr (Shawn's full review)

Small Joys by Elvin James Mensah (Shawn's interview with the author)

Adam Mars-Jones

• Pilcrow (John Cromer #1)

• Cedilla (John Cromer #2)

• Caret (John Cromer #3)

Lesbian Literature

Other People Manage by Ellen Hawley (Shawn’s interview with the author)

Cantoras by Caro De Robertis

After Sappho by Selby Wynn Schwartz