By Gregg Shapiro
Bay Area Reporter
Stuck inside during the great bomb cyclone of 2026? Watched “Heated Rivalry” more times than you’d care to admit? Looking for some literary distractions? Here are some suggestions.
“She Is Here” (PM Press) by lesbian writer Nicola Griffith is a variety pack in a slim volume, part of the Outspoken Authors series. Beginning with “A Writer’s Manifesto,” Griffith incorporates five essays, four short stories, and four poems, into this collection.
The “Wife” essay is a dissection of the word, while two of the essays take the form of letters. She rages against branding, takes offense at the misuse of LGBTQ, and offers a cautionary tale to authors of first books. In her “lesbian anthropology” short story “Cold Wind,” this reader could feel the Puget Sound chill even in South Florida.
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