Mr. Troy Ford

MTF answers life's burning questions

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The Satyricon with Neil Laird Filmmaker and author Neil Laird shares the queer book that saved his life: The Satyricon by Petronius.

This Queer Book Saved My Life | The Satyricon with Neil Laird

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If there's a better vaccine against fear, greed, and me-me-me thinking than kids reading books, let me know.

The Books We ❤️ Club | Ford Knows Books | Mr. Troy Ford | Substack

The book club you don’t have to read the book, leave the house, or even change out of your jammies to enjoy - writers singing the praises of books that reach into our hearts.

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Notes of a Crocodile with Caro De Robertis Caro De Robertis shares the queer book that saved their life: Notes of a Crocodile by Qiu Miaojin, translated by Bonnie Huie.

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Good Times/Bad Times with Joel Freedman Joel Freedman shares the queer book that saved his life: Good Times/Bad Times by James Kirkwood

Good Times/Bad Times with Joel Freedman

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"... I found Jeremy Atherton Lin’s second book, Deep House, so refreshing and mind-expanding when I read it in August 2025."

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Why I ❤️ "Giovanni's Room" by James Baldwin The Books We ❤️ Club welcomes Michael A. Horvich

Why I ❤️ "Giovanni's Room" by James Baldwin | The Books We ❤️ Club welcomes Michael A. Horvich

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7 Minutes in Book Heaven with Anne Laughlin and Clean Kill Once Upon a Crime Books presents 7 Minutes in Book Heaven featuring Anne Laughlin and her novel Clean Kill.

From This Queer Books Saved My Life, Once Upon a Crime Books introduces us to Anne Laughlin and her new novel: "Clean Kill".

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"Our Divine Miss - a performer so odd, so decidedly queer that she created a mermaid character just to choreograph a dance number in motorized wheelchairs for herself and her backup singers. - pan ellington.

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Essays, stories & curiosities from the author of "Lamb"

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Literary Fiction Giveaway! A FREE Kindle reader and 15 ebooks.

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One winner will be chosen at random on 12 / 31 / 2025 and notified via email that they have won the eBooks Prize Package. Good luck!

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Lamb (Troy Ford) Review While I expected Lamb to break my heart, I didn't quite expect it to turn it inside out and scoop out its contents in the visceral way it did. This book is brutal yet tender, just like the titular…

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@mrtroyfordauthor.bsky.social shares his 1st novel Lamb. We discuss the series in a boarding school in the 90s, casting an unnamed narrator as a main character, and touch on the newsletters and substack he runs for you, the readers and writers. buff.ly/Ozeo6vK #booktalk #gay #fiction #comingofage

Troy Ford December 5, 2025 It gives us great pleasure to present Season 10, Episode 487: Troy Ford! Troy Ford shares his first novel Lamb. We discuss placing a series in a boarding school in the 90s, casting…

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Many thanks to Vance Bastian and Baz Collins for featuring me on WRitten On The Edge podcast!

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You're welcome!

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A remarkable tale (with stellar audio production values!)

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Reader’s Guide: World AIDS Day 2025 Young Adult Like a Love Story by Abdi Nazemian It’s 1989 in New York City, and for three teens, the world is changing. Reza is an Iranian boy who has just moved to the city with his mother to live …

Reader’s Guide: World AIDS Day 2025 - Dec 1

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This AIDS Dinosaur Shakes His Fist—With Understanding As a survivor of the epidemic, here’s some hard-earned wisdom from your elder.

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Creating Anna Madrigal - Part 2 In this second episode, Armistead shares how his English grandmother informed the spirit of Anna Madrigal — a woman whose warmth, humor, and gentle wisdom shaped both his life and his fiction.

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This Queer Book Saved My Life - Coming Out by Wallace Hamilton from 1977
With Bobby Smith

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Hear Aldous Huxley Narrate His Dystopian Masterpiece, Brave New World The CBS Radio Workshop was an “experimental dramatic radio anthology series” that aired between 1956 and 1957. And it started with style--with a dramatized adaptation of Brave New World, narrated by A...

Hear Aldous Huxley Narrate His Dystopian Masterpiece, Brave New World

I’m so grateful to Hotch Potch for the Pushcart nomination, and especially to Gail for the editorial assistance! You can read Making Étouffée here in Vol 3, Issue 2.

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