Welcome back. I took some time off to redesign the website, and I want up front to thank Beth Sullivan for the outstanding (and very patient) work she did on it. You should hire her.

While things were under construction, I was keeping up with my year of queer reading. To catch you up, here’s the list since Humiliation:

• Are You My Mother? – Alison Bechdel
• Andy Warhol – Wayne Koestenbaum
• Zami: A New Spelling of My Name – Audre Lorde
• Caroline, or Change – Tony Kushner
• Less – Andrew Sean Greer
• The Fact of a Body: A Murder and a Memoir – Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich
• How to Write an Autobiographical Novel: Essays – Alexander Chee
• Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl – Carrie Brownstein
• Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl – Andrew Lawlor
• Abandon Me: Memoirs – Melissa Febos

I’m also a slow reader. Expect a post or two about these once I’m back from the NonfictioNow conference. I’m happy and relieved to have this space back to work out ideas about books and queers and teaching and guitar tabs and whatever messes I get into.