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40 to 48 pages, says Marks. Loyal readers will
any faithful readers held their
find a handful of extended articles at the front of
breath when word came last fall
the magazine and an expanded number of me­
that the Lambda Book Report was
dium-length reviews. Capsule reviews are gone,
suspending publication to reor­
and the graphic design is simplified.
ganize. They feared it was the last
is excited by the increased frequency of
they would see of the influential niche Marks
publica­
publication, which “will allow us more flexibility
tion (circulation: 8,000) and its sister, the Lambda
to focus the theme.”
Literary Awards, or Lammys. But they can breathe
“Healthy, happy homos,” is the shorthand that
easier now: Both are back and better than ever.
assistant editor Kanani Kauka uses to describe a
Lambda Book Report was the glue that held
lead review in the July issue. It focuses on books
together the small world of gay and lesbian books
delving into the “brain-mind” matrix of homo­
and publishing. Deacon Maccubbin, the owner of
sexuality.
Lambda Rising Bookstore in Washington, D.C.,
August brings mysteries and erotica. “I’m
started it in 1987 as a vehicle to promote a more
sure the authors won’t like us saying this, but
professional view of gay and lesbian books. Two
beach reading,” says Marks. “We are going to do
years later he added the Lammys, to recognize the
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best in gay and lesbian literature. The awards are
given at a banquet during the annual American
Booksellers Association convention.
“Gay books are not reviewed thoroughly in
the straight press,” laments David Bergman, pro­
fessor of English, writer, and editor of books such
as The Violet Quill Reader. “Here was a journal,
a place of record for all of the gay and lesbian
books being published. Also a place to advertise
and a place where publishers could be sure their
books would be noticed.”
LBR became must reading for book buyers
and readers inundated with the growing number
of gay and lesbian titles.
The nine-month hiatus reinforced the impor­
tance of LBR to that community.
“I’m hearing that publishers are telling [gay
authors] their books have not done as well be­
cause the Book Report is not there to review
them,” says LBR senior editor Jim Marks.
“You really do need to think about it as part of
an integrated industry,” he says. “We are the trade
report and there are gay bookstores and publish­
ers. Removing that one piece has meant that
reviews are hit and miss. It affects sales.”
Maccubbin admits that finances played a part
in the decision to restructure an operation he has
subsidized from the start. But more importantly,
he felt the journal wasn’t fulfilling its mission to
“in a very timely fashion, review every new gay,
lesbian, bisexual and transgender book that is
published.”
The revised LBR is a monthly publication of
all fun stuff.”
The new LBR was incorporated as a nonprofit.
“We have always functioned as a nonprofit; we
were constantly broke; we had just never gotten it
officially sanctioned,” says Kauka. “This gives us
a lot more flexibility.”
The Lammys remain part of the Lambda Book
Report.
Bergman sees the awards as important be­
cause they indicate that “what we are doing is
meritorious, and the best of what we are doing is
really significant. That helped change the way
gay and lesbian writers regarded themselves.”
He believes the Lammys opened the door for
explicitly gay material to be considered in such
prestigious venues as the National Book Award
and the Book Critics Circle Award.
“I think it is at least in part because of the
Lammys beginning to distinguish the best of what
was being produced, at a time when people were
willing to think of all of it as negligible,” Bergman
says.
The Lammy awards dinner has become a
fund-raiser to help cover the gap between income
and operating costs for the two projects. Marks is
optimistic that ticket sales and corporate under­
writing of this year’s event, held June 14 in
Chicago, “will come pretty close to erasing the
deficit” for the next year of operations.
His two-year plan calls for a modest increase
in circulation and advertising. Staff will grow to
three on the editorial and two on the business side
of operations.
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