This morning we gave a Stranger Genius Award sheet cake to Stacey Levine. She is the 2009 Stranger Literature Genius. I wrote about Levine earlier this year: It is kind of a shame that Stacey Levine’s ...

(Over two years ago now, I reviewed Stranger Genius of Literature Stacey Levine’s book The Girl with Brown Fur. Due to various problems, the book was never really published… Until this week!

Using the model of the "nurse romances" of the 1950's, Stacey Levine has concocted a small-town romance--with a difference. The undercurrents of sexuality, repression and gender uncertainty rise to ...