Gay superheroes? Yeah, right. Ever since Urban Molecule first interviewed Italian author Marco Mancassola in the summer of 2007, he’s been riding the world circuit, writing his latest thriller of a piece that’s based on an alternate universe of heroes that happens right here on Earth. In anticipation of his return (and the book’s release) [...]

Judging a Book by Its Cover, and Then Some, Part III
by Perry Brass
Her question: “Carnal Sacraments could be marketed as a queer book, or as Science Fiction (SF). The cover makes it pretty clear that the publishers intend to market it as a queer book; there’s hardly any hint that the contents are very much [...]

Judging a Book by Its Cover, and Then Some, Part II
by Perry Brass
I soon learned that even doing a small poetry book was much harder than I had anticipated: choosing which poems to include, their sequence, front and back cover material, and how the design of the book would sell both the book and the [...]

The third volume of short fiction by Jillian Elisabetta Ciaccia is now available. Monstrosities is composed of eleven literary portraits concentrating on the creation and process of objects, both organic and inorganic. Animal crackers. Maraschino cherries. A freckle and Nylon stockings. You won’t look at your world the same.
As with the two previous volumes, [...]

Our favorite literary reading emcee is stepping up to the mic! Come see Rebecca Alvarez read her stuff at the next:
Cup and Pen Small Press Reading Series presents
Emerged Writers from the Center for Book Arts letterpress workshop
With readings by Rebecca Alvarez, Emily Blair, Erika Jo Brown, Bronwyn C., Kate Foster, Barbara Henry, Nancy Hoffman and [...]

What is age and longevity, and how do our histories, memories, records of failures and accomplishments, loves and hurts, past passions and hatreds, affect them? Will jettisoning the past increase your ability to live longer without the burdens of memory? And what do we become without a past, or a past that is only manufactured [...]

Whit Honea is a dad and a damn good writer.
Rumor has it that Ray Bradbury wrote Fahrenheit 451 during the day while taking care of his kids. Could this Californian be conjuring up the next great thriller?
While his latest is served up cold, ”Mountains from White Hills” somehow manages to heat up the pages of Urban Molecule. A few words.
UM: [...]

Cup and Pen Small Press Reading Series, emceed by Rebecca Alvarez, presents Urban Molecule
WHEN: Wednesday, January 9th, 8-10pm
WHERE: Think Coffee, 248 Mercer Street between 3rd and 4th Streets, NYC
SUBWAY: BDFV to Broadway Lafayette/6 to Bleeker/NRW to Prince
MORE INFO: www.thinkcoffeenyc.com/cup-and-pen / 212-228-6226
The Event: Readings by Perry Brass, Jillian Ciaccia (The Fictionist), Sam J Miller, and poet Yosvaney Reyes. [...]

Urban Molecule contributor Sam J Miller will be reading at the LGBT Community Center this Thursday, November 15.
The author of “Skin on Fire,” the flash fiction piece to be released in the UM launch issue, will be reading at a release event for the new Green Candy Press anthology Sex by the Book, which includes [...]