US Figure Skating Preview

If you’re not hugely excited, jumping for joy, and making your carpool plans in advance of the US Figure Skating Championships happening in Wichita, KS at INTRUST Bank Arena from January 22-26, you’re doing it wrong. This is a big deal. Huge. Monumental.  Here are a few reasons why you should buy your tickets now (and then spend the last three weekends before Championships bedazzling your scarves and gloves and catching up on this season’s podcast episodes of The Runthrough, hosted by Olympic medalists Ashley Wagner and Adam Rippon). 

Archived: T. Rimberg

Here's a fun, new segment: archived book reviews! I'll post these for funsies as they pique my interest (and as long as they don't embarrass me too terribly much). Many of these first appeared in newsletters for Watermark Books and Cafe, a local, independent bookstore where I worked as a bookseller (and for a five-year... Continue Reading →

Lady Macbeth and Queen Macbeth

Lady Macbeth by Ava Reid

Most people here know I'm an English teacher, an avid fan of Shakespeare (we have the same birthday), and an even bigger fan of Scotland (a Caledonophile). So when my sister-in-law gifted me Lady Macbeth by Ava Reid, I put it at the top of my TBR pile. And it doesn't disappoint. Shipped from Breizh... Continue Reading →

Feed the Resistance

In all the ways that food can call us to gather, it can also show us ways to rebel and to feed our resistance to power. And that’s the focus of Julia Turshen’s tiny but powerful cookbook; she gathered recipes from chefs and activists seeking a way to feed those who helped push for change... Continue Reading →

Cool Beans

While cooking can be about community and resistance, it can also be entirely personal. My wife Mallory and I love to cook, and she especially loves beans. I know that I can entice her to a recipe if it features beans, and Joe Yonan’s cookbook is the early-holiday gift I’m giving us this year. Yonan... Continue Reading →

Make the Season Bright

As soon as Halloween is over, I'm in full holiday mode. I want cocoa spiked with peppermint and warm, fuzzy socks by a fireplace (or a space heater). And I definitely want a holiday romance novel. In fact, I want all of them. The first holiday romance of the 2024 season for me was an easy... Continue Reading →

The Prospects

I know, I know. Baseball season is “technically” over, but KT Hoffman’s debut queer sports romance The Prospects is a line drive straight to your heart. Every baseball season starts with one thing: hope. The hope that your team will go farther, run faster, and make it to the playoffs. And that’s the case for... Continue Reading →

The Spirit Bares Its Teeth

A hallmark of the queer community is our ability to survive, even when society throws our identities, our bodies, and our right to exist into question, and Andrew Joseph White’s second novel, The Spirit Bares Its Teeth, examines the struggle and triumph of that upheaval.

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