Kristen McDeavitt is a queer writer and backpacker. After graduating from UC Berkeley with an English degree, the usual sense of adventure took them to Wyoming, Texas, and Alaska, where they currently live in a tent by a glacier.
A reader on showing vulnerability, affection, and intimacy through book inscriptions, and the joy of finding inscribed books second-hand.
For those of us desperate to beat the heat, looking for any way to cool off, here are a few excellent books about the Arctic and Antarctic.
A glacier guide in Alaska shares what is on her company's reading shelf.
Recommended reads that demand you read take your time.
How the reality-shifting work of Haruki Murakami speaks to this queer reader.