Lethe Press is seeking submissions for its 2017 Best Gay Stories anthology. The project will be edited by Joe Okonkwo whose evocative debut novel Jazz Moon we covered in a recent interview. As with past volumes of their Best Gay Stories series, Lethe Press is seeking quality works of fiction, creative non-fiction, and essays that capture gay life in […]
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Writing About Gayness, Blackness and Jazz in 1920s Harlem and Paris | Interview with Joe Okonkwo, Author of Jazz Moon
Joe Okonkwo’s debut novel, Jazz Moon, came out in June of this year. Described by David Ebershoff, author of The Danish Girl, as “passionate, alive, and original,” it follows a gay male poet’s journey in the 1920s from the American South to Harlem and then to Paris, handling complexities of character when impacted by art and love […]
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