27 Things To Look Forward To In 2017

From: NewNowNext

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 More Great Gay Lit

Rahul Mehta, author of the prize-winning collection Quarantine, has written his debut novel, No Other World, a compelling coming-of-age story about a gay Indian boy finding his place in his immigrant family—and his adopted homeland.

 Patricia A Smith’s The Year of Needy Girls , meanwhile, sees Dierdre and Sara Jane’s new life as an out couple threatened by the murder of a 10-year-old and accusations of sexual molestation.

In the nonfiction arena, there’s new memoirs in the new year from Armistead Maupin and Roxane Gay.

 In Logical Family, Maupin shares how he evolved from the conservative son of the Old South to an out-and-proud novelist who impacted millions with his Tales of the City books, with pit stops in Vietnam, gay bathhouses, the White House, and beyond.

With Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body, Gay speaks frankly about self-image, food, eating issues and learning how to feed your hunger while taking care of yourself.

“I ate and ate and ate in the hopes that if I made myself big, my body would be safe,” she writes. “I buried the girl I was because she ran into all kinds of trouble. I tried to erase every memory of her, but she is still there, somewhere.”

Also hitting the shelves: Bernadino Evaristo’s Mr. Loverman, Dawn Lundy Martin’s Good Stock, Strange Blood, and Lonely Christopher’s The Mechanics of Homosexual Intercourse, from Dennis Cooper’s Little House on the Bowery series.