literature

We know it's important, especially for children and young adults, to see images like ourselves in the media. Comics and graphic novels are increasingly popular – it’s a billion-dollar-a-year-plus business – and LGBTQ characters are popping up more often in their pages.

In the “Golden Dreg Boy” series author D.K. Dailey takes us to San Francisco 200 years into the future, where a wealthy teen boy’s world is shaken up and he learns first hand about systemic inequalities.

Over a decade ago Sandip Roy was called to service…. By Lawrence Ferlinghetti.

Over a decade ago Sandip Roy was called to service…. By Lawrence Ferlinghetti.

Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore's new book, The Freezer Door, mourns losing "the dream of queer" -- a “world without borders and hierarchies”-- that she says…

How can insights from the arts and humanities help us cope with anxious times?In troubling, uncertain times, the arts and humanities are more important…

Brandon Taylor’s highly praised debut novel, Real Life, gets deep into desire, intimacy, sex, abuse, homophobia, racism, misogyny, love, hate and the…

Pamela Sneed’s prose and poetry can reach out and grab you. They did me. She reads four poems from her new memoir, Funeral Diva, on this week’s Out in the…

Can art be broadly accessible without sacrificing quality? Can it be cognitively challenging without being elitist?When we think of “real” art, we often…

Sacramento author Shelley Blanton-Stroud reads from her new novel, "Copy Boy." It takes place in San Francisco in the 1930s.Click the play button above to…