Fave Five: Queer Heist Novels

For the first time in as long as I can remember, I have no idea what the future will bring, because I’ve not decided it yet. Instead, I choose to float in this happiness and to imagine all the possibilities that lie ahead – for they are as boundless as the sea.

"Love, at least the way it is described by the bards—that sudden thunderstorm of passion, urgent and fiery—has always eluded me. When my childhood friends began to speak of their first infatuations, their first feelings of desire, I thought...Well, in the beginning, I thought it was all just a game they were playing. You pick a boy, speak in exaggerated terms about his characteristics, and you invent some fantasy in which he kisses your hand or brings you a jewel or slays a dragon. As pastimes go, it was somewhat amusing for an afternoon, but then it lasted weeks. When I finally grew bored of it enough to complain, to ask that we play something else for once...that's when I finally realized it was not a game at all. Not to them."

Do you have a favorite Shakespearean play?

Instead, I choose to float in this happiness, and to imagine all the possibilities that lie ahead - for they are as boundless as the sea.