Little Gay Library

After an unexpected hiatus, Glory (she/they) and Leslie (she/ella) are back with many life updates and audio quality they thought would be crisp (it will get figured out eventually). The two discuss the media they’ve been consuming and Leslie gives a short review of THE QUEER GIRL IS GOING TO BE OKAY by Dale Walls*. Side rants include Glory’s secret life before they were a librarian, the ways in w...

In the ninth episode of Little Gay Library, Glory (she/they) and Leslie (she/her/ella) interview Sam Slupski (they/them), writer and author of Until Tender, their debut poetry collection. Discussions include a deeper dive into themes in Sam’s poetry (food, chosen family, and pop culture), as well as the power of cooking, writing as a form of survival, and where the best sunsets are found (the Midw...

In the eighth episode of Little Gay Library, Glory (she/they) and Leslie (she/her/ella) talk about Cynthia So’s If You Still Recognize Me (lots of spoilers). Discussions include the gender envy, our experiences with Tumblr fandoms, our favorite celebratory foods, and more. Additionally, the two spoke about September being National Library Card Sign-Up month (and all the cool things you can access...

In the seventh episode of Little Gay Library, Glory (she/they) and Leslie (she/her/ella) talk about the second half of Lesbian Love Story by Amelia Possanza. Discussions included problematic writers, ideas for our own anthologies, gay best friends, and the queer people in our lives who would be featured in our personal archives (shout out to all the elementary school crushes, queer awakenings, and...

In the sixth episode of Little Gay Library, Leslie  (she/ella) and Glory (she/they) reunite irl and talk about ALL the books in existence!!! Jk…but if you are needing some recommendations then this is the episode for you. They talked about Light Academia books, body horror books, books about queer communes, and so much more. The two also talked about their long-anticipated buddy read for June: Les...

Welcome back the Little Gay Library! This month, Glory (she/they) and Leslie (she/ella) had the pleasure of interviewing Emily Hashimoto, author of A World Between. They spoke to Emily about the media and art references in the book, why Nasrin is actually not as terrible as we thought, and advice for emerging writers. Side chats include discussing Emily’s favorite movies in the Meg Ryan Cinematic...

Welcome back the Little Gay Library! This month, Glory (she/they) and Leslie (she/ella) breakdown A World Between by Emily Hashimoto (ALL SPOILERS). Topics of discussion include reminiscing about cozy days in college, art that has moved us, and the pop culture and American culture references we didn’t understand as kids of immigrant parents. Leslie and Glory also took a random online quiz to find...

In this third episode of Little Gay Library, Glory (she/they) and Leslie (she/ella) upgrade to mics and have the crispest audio! They talk about the books they read during February including a popular dystopian YA that has recently blown up on TikTok (that Leslie tried to explain very poorly), another book that was turned into a real… go-to-the-theater-sit-down-watch-a-movie film, a satirical book...

[Episode CW: Diet Culture] Welcome back to the Little Gay Library! This month, Glory (she/they) and Leslie (she/ella) discuss Everything I Know About Love by Dolly Alderton. Topics include 2014 Tumblr, white people holiday food, and the importance of lesbian and queer friendship. They also read some unhinged Goodreads reviews of the book, and discuss next month’s segment where listeners can submit...

Glory (she/they) and Leslie (she/ella) welcome you to the Little Gay Library, a podcast for bookish gays by literature lesbians. Each week they will be talking about their current queer reads and important news from the book world. For their first episode, they introduced themselves and talk about how they met before diving into the books they read in 2022. Tangents include things they believe are...