Author Archives: louisamerchant1

The combination of horror and lesbianism isn’t new. Why just this year my neighborhood had a Halloween contest where you had to name your house, and I decided our house had to have a lesbian name. Some of the ideas we came up with were already taken like the amazing “Sapphic Slashers” which is anContinue reading “Superficial Lesbian Ghosts: A Real Page Turner”

Ok, so I know I haven’t posted a blog since the beginning of September. Like many of you, I experienced my child’s shift to full time synchronous learning along with my partner’s and my full time job as equivalent to being an unwanted mutt tied to and dragged behind a heartless moped as the concreteContinue reading “Pantsuits Can Have Crushes Too”

I know it’s been a minute since I’ve posted anything. I’ve been working on creating an online tutoring program for former refugee kids. While doing so I learned about a cool and FREE! website with well known titles for kids such as and other lesser known titles. It’s called GetEpic.com, and I have enjoyed readingContinue reading “GetEpic! with FREE online books for kids”

I just had surgery a couple of days ago, and I am grateful that I was able to have the least invasive procedure available. I was quite scared since I haven’t been put under since I was five years old and had tubes in my ears, but the nurse assured me they were going toContinue reading “A Decent Post Surgery Read”

So I might have just sent a fan letter to this author. I mean it is her first novel, and it is officially my favorite book that I have reviewed so far, but even if it weren’t her first novel, I would have sent it anyway.  It is one of my foundational beliefs that peopleContinue reading “Ok this one wins.  Turns out the most homophobic city in America is my favorite.”

My dad gave me a bunch of hard cover new fiction when he was done with it, and because he is a cutting edge reader, one of them was a first novel by a gay Ojibwe man from Minnesota called This Town Sleeps. It is the story of Marion Lafournier, a gay man in hisContinue reading “2020 New Fiction: Tales from a Minnesota Ojibwe Gay Man”

So the thing about trying a socially distanceable outing is you have to be willing to fail: ie, drive an hour away, realize it’s too freaking crowded and turn around and go home…which is hard for all of us but especially if you have a kid whose probably steady whining even before things go south…andContinue reading “Part Two: Socially Distanceable Bikes, Hikes and Swimming Holes Near Atlanta (6 and a half new sites)”

When What is the What? came out in 2016, a lot of people told me to read it because I work with former refugees. I bought it or someone gave it to me because I have it on the shelf, but I didn’t read it because either I thought Eggers wrote in overly short sentencesContinue reading “Dave Eggers: A Man of Many Sorrows?”

I spent my middle school years in Fort Lauderdale, Florida in the early 80s, the height of Miami Vice fever. In an incredibly lucky twist of fate, the church secretary was an “auntie” of mine and her husband, John, was a southern transplant from New Jersey who worked a boom mike for MIami Vice. IContinue reading “Learn Spanish with a Telenovela”

I’m stoked that the Atlanta History Center is hosting a conversation between Saeed Jones and Kiese Laymon on Thursday about Jones’ memoir, How We Fight for Our Lives which I reviewed in April.  Here is the link for the event: https://www.atlantahistorycenter.com/programs/saeed-jones-how-we-fight-for-our-lives-a-memoir In honor of this cool opportunity to see two brilliant writers together, I amContinue reading “Saeed Jones in virtual conversation with Kiese Laymon this Thurday  July 16th at 8pm”