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 →
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 →
Anyone who tells you that listening to an audiobook isn’t “technically” reading is lying. When George M. Johnson’s newest nonfiction - Flamboyants: The Queer Harlem Renaissance I Wish I’d Known - hit the audio shelf, I made it my top priority to give it a listen, and this slim book - mixed with poetry by... Continue Reading →
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 →
A must-read for fans of horror films. Full stop. It made me reflect about why I love (and hate) some slasher movies, and it ignited in me a desire to watch some films I’ve never seen (Dead Ringers, Eyes Without a Face, and The Wolfman).
shelly. walston. writes. 