Katie Lee Ellison

Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore’s Newest Novel Traces Queer Survival From the AIDS Crisis to 2020 Seattle Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore takes long and meandering walks through Capitol Hill most days. From the height of summer to the depths of winter, if the sun is out, she’s soaking in it. On these walks du...

Today is the pub day for TERRY DACTYL!!! Watch out, world...🎉🎉🎉🎉 A huge thank-you to @katieleeellison.bsky.social for a *beautiful* conversation in @thestranger.com, what a great way to welcome this book into the world... Get ready for trouble...💚💜💚💜💚💜💚

Honey Don't was great.

Donate to Help Nisi Shawl write the book of her dream!, organized by Eileen Gunn Nisi Shawl, a wise and wonderful writer of science fiction and fantasy, had a… Eileen Gunn needs your support for Help Nisi Shawl write the book of her dream!

Nisi Shawl is one of my favorite writers, a queer elder & a BIPOC icon. I hate that the state of publishing is such that the book of their dreams would struggle to find a home, but I love that we as a community can come together to make it happen!! Give/boost as you're able? 🙏

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Chloé Caldwell Refuses Tidy Endings in 'Trying' Trying is out August 5 on Graywolf Press.

Latest @thestranger.com with Chloe Caldwell about TRYING out of @graywolfpress.bsky.social. I did ask about the mention of the beauty brand Ilia in the book, yes. www.thestranger.com/books/2025/0...

The Best Movies, TV, Music, Books, Theater and Art Arriving in July We’re about to hit peak summer, which means long days to dig into a great book or two (helpfully provided below), prestigious European festivals you can dip into on your travels, and some fantastic TV...

Thanks for including Mother of Methadone on Bloomberg's top reads for July! It comes out tomorrow, wherever you buy books 🧡 @bloomberg.com @beaconpress.bsky.social www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

I wanna see tears people!!! (In the best way). Go give $5 if you can.

Repost if you can’t , or if you can!

I need everyone to see this. And for my friends outside the United States, please see how people here are standing up every day against this. We are fighting.

Lawrence Burney Shines a Light on Us All Through His Debut Essay Collection, 'No Sense in Wishing' With his collection of new essays, culture critic Lawrence Burney holds his own among living legends like Hanif Abdurraqib and Kiese Laymon.

Lawrence Burney is the friend who is always turning you on to the best music, artists, and books before anyone else. He's put months worth of cool shit into these pages.
Sample the riches on offer in this interview with @katieleeellison.bsky.social about NO SENSE IN WISHING, then try and not buy it

"... Hope coupled with initiative, ambition, desperation: some of our best moments in life come out of that." 3/3

"...specifically the enslaved African lineage, and say that hope is useless. There were many moments when I felt like my back was against the wall, and when I was conceptualizing ways of getting out of those predicaments, hope was extremely useful, but also just a vehicle..." 2/3

Lawrence Burney Shines a Light on Us All Through His Debut Essay Collection, 'No Sense in Wishing' With his collection of new essays, culture critic Lawrence Burney holds his own among living legends like Hanif Abdurraqib and Kiese Laymon.

The latest interview, this time with Lawrence Burney about his new essay collection, NO SENSE IN WISHING, is live @thestranger.com. A cut not in the final: "It would be difficult for me to come out of the African tradition and lineage..." 1/3 www.thestranger.com/books/2025/0...

You are cordially invited to our Anti-Prime Sale, where every purchase will financially support bookstores, NOT billionaires 🥳

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A Thread.

The news is very very very bad today.

I forced myself to yell ZOHRAN WON while sitting outside my house for joy practice

Radical shit

This is great campaign messaging. No wonder the establishment is so shook.

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Oh you. Just the very best. 💐💐💐

My friend April said I'm not publicizing my Stranger interviews enough.

And here's a round up of every interview I've done with @thestranger.com so far, including Daniel Tam-Claiborne, Melissa Febos, Vivian Blaxell, Lidia Yuknavitch, Freda Epum, and more 💕, as well as some personal updates. open.substack.com/pub/katielee...

Melissa Febos’s Books Reliably Bring Me to my Knees at Least Once I suppose I’m in the middle of a kind of midlife crisis, both parents dead, on the brink of what I believe will be marriage, fairly new to my own queerness, working a variety of wonderful and weird jo...

I should share these here too, yes. @thestranger.com www.thestranger.com/books/2025/0...

We're pleased to announce that the inimitable @katieleeellison.bsky.social is joining our team as a contributing editor! Katie is an amazing writer herself and runs the fab Nonfiction for No Reason reading series. Here's an essay she published with us a few years back: mosslit.com/katie-lee-el...

Working a 9-5 is so lonely.

These exist?

"A straight man's greatest fear is being understood." - Cole Escola 🙏

For federal workers who have been laid off:

When I heard myself make that lady clip clop walking down the street.

Is that book “genius” or is it just dense and bitchy?

Vivian Blaxell Worries She'll Disappoint You On page 230 of her new book, Worthy of the Event, Vivian Blaxell writes, “steer clear of Suicides.” To that I say, whoopsie daisy! My life has been rife with ’em. Still, this book gripped me and stole...

Thank you @littlepuss.net for bringing me to @vivianblaxell.bsky.social. New interview @thestranger.com just in time for her release of WORTHY OF THE EVENT. www.thestranger.com/books/2025/0...