#griffin hansbury

[lgbtqreads]

New Releases: March 2024

Tempting Olivia by Clare Ashton (1st) Olivia Sachdeva’s life is flawless. With a first from Oxford and as the youngest partner at Bentley lawyers, she expects high standards from everyone. Her only indulgences are eating iced desserts and repeat watching romcoms, especially those featuring Kate Laurence – pure escapism and cinematic perfection. But, when the actor walks into Olivia’s office with…

[transbookoftheday]

Some Strange Music Draws Me In by Griffin Hansbury

It's the summer of 1984 in Swaffham, Massachusetts, when Mel (short for Melanie) encounters Sylvia, a tough-as-nails trans woman whose shameless swagger catalyzes Mel's dawning trans self-awareness. But it also sparks the fury of townie Swaffham and throws Mel into conflict with her mother and best friend. Decades later, Max (formerly Mel) is on probation from his teaching job for (ironically) defying speech codes around trans identity. Back in Swaffham, he must face his own role in the disasters of the past. With the charged teenage emotion of Claire Messud's The Burning Girl and the propulsive social interrogation of Rebecca Makkai's I Have Some Questions for You, Hansbury reckons with gender and class as he delivers a timely and captivating narrative of self-realization amid the everyday violence of small-town intolerance. As the story builds to its explosive conclusion, Some Strange Music Draws Me In illuminates the unexpected ways that queerness can provide a ticket to liberation.

[surebabyholdback]

Current queer reads.

[rustbeltjessie]

I recently said that Mariah Stovall’s I Love You So Much It’s Killing Us Both was my favorite novel I’d read in a long time. Well, Griffin Hansbury’s Some Strange Music Draws Me In is now tied for that spot. I highly recommend it.

[judgingbooksbycovers]

Some Strange Music Draws Me In: A Novel

By Griffin Hansbury.

[genderkoolaid]

Especially in the poisonous era of Trump, masculinity in all forms is suspect, often labeled as toxic within queer communities, even when it is attached to a body assigned female at birth. As my patient Ash has discovered, you only have to declare a masculine identity to be seen as a potential violator. Testosterone is not even required; the simple appellation will do. Suspicion and rejection of female/AFAB masculinity within the queer communities is not entirely new. Butch phobia has long been an issue in the lesbian community, and masculine females, including masculine heterosexual, cisgender women, are sometimes treated as if they possess male privilege. Such treatment misses the point that female masculinity is not tantamount to male masculinity but, being neither “proper” femininity nor “genuine” masculinity, condenses two gender transgressions in one. “Butches also suffer sexism,” Jack Halberstam reminds us, “butches also experience misogyny; butches may not be strictly women, but they are not exempt from female trouble.” Butches may be doubly targeted—as women and as women who are “failing” feminine gender. Transmasculine people can fall into misogynistic and femme-phobic thinking (like all of us living under patriarchy), and cis-assumed trans men, especially, may possess some aspects of male privilege (e.g., they are “straightforwardly” read as male and thus may enjoy the prizing extended to cis men). However, while they may not identify as women, they, too, are not exempt from female (or male!) trouble since they are themselves acutely aware of how quickly those privileges can be stripped away if their trans status should become known.

— Don’t Take Up Space: How the Patriarchy Works to Undermine Trans Communities from Within by Griffin Hansbury (emphasis by me)

[kulliare]

on recognising like for like-- from nevada by imogen binnie, fun home by alison bechdel, and some strange music draws me in by griffin hansbury

[labyrinth-guy]

i did a lot of reading this past year, which is remarkable because i spent a lot of time submerged in a grad school writing sample deep dive/spiral, and found a lot of books i really enjoyed

some superlatives, pictured above:

favorite read of 2024: Greasepaint by Hannah Levene (about a butch jewish socialist dyke piano player's union)

most enjoyable nonfiction i have ever read: Park Cruising by Marcus McCann

best haunted house book/book i wish i wrote: Brat by Gabriel Smith

best fiction book about covid lockdown i have read yet: Back in the Land of the Living by Eva Crocker

best trans novel that reads like memoir: Some Strange Music Draws Me In by Griffin Hansbury (bonus points for wmass nostalgia)

favorite unhinged young queer woman moves to the woods alone during an identity crisis (in translation): Mammoth by Eva Baltasar

best grad school reading/your new favorite under-appreciated land artist: Nancy Holt Inside/Outside ed. Lisa Le Feuvre

thanks @insaneclownpussi for the tag and for often listening to me describe weird books i'm reading

some honorable mentions/not pictured:

best fucked up little short story collections: Cursed Bunny by Bora Chung, She is Haunted by Paige Clark

best queer horror: cuckoo by Gretchen-Felker Martin, Diavola by Jennifer Thorne, Model Home by Rivers Solomon

best queer roadtrip book/book that makes you feel like making art maybe is worth it: Housemates by Emma Copley Isenberg

most playful approach to genre: My Lesbian Novel by Renee Gladman (thank you to @northwindow 's substack for finally making me go track down a copy)

i have two reading goals for next year (unrelated to total quantity because ideally i will be starting grad school... fingers crossed). i would like to read more non-fiction than fiction, and i would like to write down/keep track of my thoughts about what i read with more consistency.

to start the year, i am currently reading: Still Life by Katherine Packert Burke and Women by Chloe Caldwell

[le-fils-de-lhomme]

When Griffin Hansbury was first on TAL he said that he and his friend thought of having an advice column called Ask a Guy Who Used to be a Girl and I think he might be the funniest man on the planet.

[lids-flutter-open]

started reading "vanishing New York" by jerimiah moss who it turns out is actually named griffin hansbury and is a hot ftm psychoanalyst in Chelsea and I'm not sure if I want him to psychoanalyze me or something else but I do wanna read his book abt gentrification

[nimblermortal]

Hey tumblrites, NPR just did a really interesting segment on testosterone, both the absence of in a cis dude and the presence of in a trans dude

Tran’s dude’s name was Griffin Hansbury, dunno about the other dude because I tuned in too late

Anyway, if you’re interested, I’m sure it’s on the interwebs somewhere, and I am now filled with questions, so if you know stuff and want to talk, shoot me a message, please.

[lgbtqreads]

October 2022 Deal Announcements

October 2022 Deal Announcements

Adult Fiction Author of FERAL CITY and VANISHING NEW YORK under the pen name Jeremiah Moss Griffin Hansbury‘s SOME STRANGE MUSIC DRAWS ME IN, exploring the 1980s friendship between a young trans woman and a teen who will grow into a trans man, as he looks back on his youth from 2019, where he grapples with middle-age, the death of his mother, and the troubles of his right-wing sister amidst his…

[grammarlyapp]

Jeremiah Moss, the man who wants to save the New York everyone loves

Moss's story is all about transformation – from female to male; from psychoanalyst Griffin Hansbury to blogger Jeremiah Moss; from blogger to author; ... http://ift.tt/2iqylYs

[surebabyholdback]

I was not nearly as important to her as she was to me. This is simply true. I have since wondered why she even bothered with me. The conclusion I keep coming to is that she bothered because we were the only ones of our kind in that place, two impossible objects drawn together, trying to will each other into existence.

Griffin Hansbury, Some Strange Music Draws Me In

[rustbeltjessie]

What r some books that r close to uu

Ohhhh this is so difficult. There are so many. So I’m gonna go with whatever pops into my head.

Books I first read a long time ago that are close to me: On the Road by Jack Kerouac, The Outlaw Bible of American Poetry, Girl Goddess #9 by Francesca Lia Block, the Dangerous Angels series by Francesca Lia Block, Sassafras Cypress and Indigo by Ntozake Shange, The Early Diaries of Anaïs Nin, Angel Maker by Sara Maitland, Tales of a Punk Rock Nothing by Jamie Schweser & Abram Shalom Himmelstein, Foxfire by Joyce Carol Oates, Look Homeward Angel by Thomas Wolfe, Fatal Interview by Edna St. Vincent Millay, Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery, Harriet the Spy by Louise Fitzhugh, A Girl’s Guide to Taking Over the World: Writings from the Girl Zine Revolution, Memoirs of a Beatnik by Diane Di Prima, Written On the Body by Jeanette Winterson, Pussy King of the Pirates by Kathy Acker, A Coney Island of the Mind by Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Howl and Other Poems by Allen Ginsberg, The Mysteries of Pittsburgh by Michael Chabon, The Night Country by Stewart O’Nan, Why Things Burn by Daphne Gottlieb, Geek Love by Katherine Dunn, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll, Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman, etc. etc., etc.

Books I’ve read more recently that already feel close to me: The Girl in the Green Silk Gown by Seanan McGuire, The Wendys by Allison Benis White, frank: sonnets by Diane Seuss, Saint 1001 by Daphne Gottlieb, The Collected Poems of Lynda Hull, Juno Loves Legs by Karl Geary, I Love You So Much It’s Killing Us Both by Mariah Stovall, Some Strange Music Draws Me In by Griffin Hansbury, First Love by Lilly Dancyger, Romantic Comedy by James Allen Hall, Fifty Beasts to Break Your Heart and Other Stories by GennaRose Nethercott. Etc.