Peer Reviewed Articles

Wild West Fringe: The Cowboy’s Queer Trace

Michael James Harrington

The Ambient Mode

Mitch Therieau

“Escríbelo como si me lo estuvieras contando”: How a Mojado Writes a Cross-Border, Cross-Linguistic Narrative

The words in my title — Escríbelo como si me lo estuvieras contando (“write it as if you were telling it to me”) — were spoken by Dick Reavis, a white…

“Amazing Connection and Blazing”: The 1970s and 1980s Lesbian-Feminist Editorial Practices of Out & Out Books, Diana Press, and Aunt Lute Press

“The women’s presses keep the book in print until it finds its audience; Daughters, Inc. has gone back to press (sold out the first 3,000 copies) on every one of…

Feminist Poetry & Editorial Labor at Amazon Quarterly,  Chrysalis, and Sinister Wisdom

Editorial labor was a crucial — but often overlooked — aspect of creating not only the body of work we now recognize as feminist poetry (and its varied lineages) but…

“The Most Sympathetic Reader You Can Imagine”: William Maxwell’s New Yorker and the Midcentury Short Story

William Maxwell is perhaps the most significant and least studied of midcentury American literary editors. This conjunction of literary impact and scholarly neglect tells us something about the constitutional reserve…

“It’s Only Vanity if It’s Not Good”: Daisy Aldan and Women Midcentury Small Press Publishers

“Well, if you’re a woman you put yourself somewhere near the beginning & then there’s this other place where you put yourself in terms of everybody” Alice Notley, Doctor Williams’ Heiresses…