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New Orleanian Wins Lambda Literary Award

Closepersonalfriend and fellow New Orleanian Greg Herren just received a Lambda Literary Award for his gay mystery novel Murder in the Rue Chartres–which sounds eerily like a below-the-fold headline in the Picayune, but hurrah anyway!

I’m not much of a mystery reader, and I wonder if having separate categories for “men’s mystery” and “women’s mystery” might be a little much (really, is the GLBT mystery genre that big?), but I’m a huge fan of Greg and his partner, Paul, so it’s going on my list.

Also honored: my current read, Mississippi Sissy by former closepersonalfriend and former New Orleanian Kevin Sessums. He’s several years older, but apart from the bit about his parents dying when he was painfully young, our childhoods were strangely, sadly similar.