A Word About ‘Tales My Body Told Me’

My new novel Tales My Body Told Me has been released—the official release date is May 3rd, and the Kindle version is available now—and I couldn’t feel more like a proud new papa. It is my wish that everyone who liked A Report from Winter would read and enjoy Tales as well. However, I don’t think this wish [...]

Have Your Gay and Eat It, Too: The Sexually Ambivalent Closet

Now is hardly the time to exchange the rainbow flag for a standard of dull gray. We face a world where homosexuals are being imprisoned and put to death abroad, and denied human rights at home.

Book Excerpt: A Visit from the Clergyman

What had inspired my parents, neither of them religious, to join a church? I suspected it was my mother’s idea, since she ended up teaching Sunday School. I could see her now in her Sunday clothes, a severe blue skirt and jacket, a yellow brooch pinned next to her lapel, and white open-toed sandals on her feet, the straps seeming to cut into the swollen ankles that troubled her so.