Edgar Gomez

“It’s healthy to take a break sometimes to be a fan and remember the larger legacy you’re a part of,” writes @otroedgargomez.bsky.social, author of Alligator Tears (Crown). Read on: at.pw.org/WRGomez

Buy this book too. “Alligator Tears” by @otroedgargomez.bsky.social

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This is the page in the history book where future generations may ask, “Why didn’t more people speak up?" Don’t let this slide.

Tried to dance along with a Tina Turner performance and lasted one minute before collapsing onto the floor and lying there heaving...

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Defying DeSantis, Florida Pride Marchers Light Up Jacksonville Bridge with Rainbow Organizers demonstrated that they didn’t need state permission for queer visibility.

1. Florida banned cities from lighting up bridges rainbow colors for Pride.

So the people of Jacksonville did it themselves using flashlights and gels.

They opened the drawbridge to block them.

So they marched to a different bridge.

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Loving @otroedgargomez.bsky.social’s latest, Alligator Tears: A Memoir in Essays, which is full of moving, beautiful writing like this passage and more than a few laughs, too. #booksky #lgbtqwriters

Thank you for reading ❤️

Books I’ve been reading lately. I like seeing them laid out and tracing how one led to picking up the next. Usually not a horror/gore person in movies (I get too freaked out) but it’s been kinda fun reading scary shit, apocalyptic scenarios, monsters. Looking for more recs along that lane.

Write your memoir/essay collection with me!

Starting this June, I'll be teaching a 10-month memoir workshop with @thewriterscenter.bsky.social. Details to apply are on the class page, where you'll also find a video of me explaining how our time together will go: writer.org/event/memoir...

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It’s not every day you get to interview a total dreamboat about their new book 🥲🥲🥲 check out this cute convo @otroedgargomez.bsky.social and I had in @foglifter.bsky.social!!!!

Our May 3 identity panel: @saribotton.bsky.social @brosandprose.bsky.social, Kari Ferrell, @otroedgargomez.bsky.social, @debbiemillman.bsky.social, and @carmenritawong.bsky.social
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“Tenderly sweet, heart-wrenching, and comical.”

Thank you @samforbreakfast.bsky.social and Foglifter Journal for such a fun conversation about crafting Alligator Tears, why Top Model was my bible as a kid, and as usual, my mom. ❤️

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TFW your literary hero emails you saying they liked your book 🥲

Alligator Tears: A Memoir in Essays by Edgar Gomez Crown. 2025. 256 pages.

I reviewed @otroedgargomez.bsky.social's gender-bending, genre-defying memoir, Alligator Tears, for @worldlittoday.bsky.social. worldliteraturetoday.org/2025/may/all...

The Myth of the 'De-Extinction' of the Dire Wolf Don't be fooled by reports of extinct animals being brought back to life, argues genetic researcher Jonathan Roberts. The truth is much scarier

🔴The Myth of the 'De-Extinction' of the Dire Wolf

Don't be fooled by reports of extinct animals being brought back to life, argues genetic researcher Jonathan Roberts. The truth is much scarier

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Spring Books 2025 round-up, part 3: Obsessions, revealing memoirs & a ‘Wicked’ prequel Here’s the third installment of our Spring books round-up, with thought-provoking stories from a trans author, self-reflective queer memoirs including one from a longtime AIDS-era survivor, and both f...

“Empowering and entertaining… Gomez is able to keep the witty prose percolating even while chronicling a series of nearly insurmountable troubles. This is another winner for the multi-talented queer Latinx.”

Thank you Jim Picheota at The Bay Area Reporter! 🐊🥲❤️
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Amigayyysss, I’m so excited to be back at the LA Times Festival of Books later this month! 🌴📚

I’ll be on a panel titled A Life in Essays with Suzy Exposito, Manuel Betancourt, and Vanessa Angélica Villarreal. Hope to see you there! @latimes.com #latimesfob

Congratulations Elyssa Goodman on 11 years of the @missmanhattanny.bsky.social reading series!!! So happy and honored to be a part of the celebration along with Peter Trachtenberg, Mary Gaitskill, and Mia Arias Tsang. 💅📚

In this alternate cut they get in an argument about Drag Race on the train (Jesse only watches the US franchise…) but they make up bc he has some Double Scorpio on him and they spend the night queening out at a 24hrs bathhouse in Vienna. 💅🚂🥰

What's the book version of an EGOT? National Book Award, American Book Award, Pulitzer? I'm trying to win a NAP...

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“Alligator Tears” Traces a Zig‑Zag Escape from Poverty A review of the memoir “Alligator Tears” by Edgar Gomez.

Wowow super happy today to see this stunning review of Alligator Tears in The Southern Review of Books. For Floridaaaaa!!! ❤️❤️❤️
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Detail of progress on “Snack Time,” my illustration of damage by Chinese Rose Beetles (Adoretus sinicus) to cacao (Theobroma cacao) in Hawaii. Colored pencil, colored ink and graphite. #botanicalart #SciArt #tropicalagriculture #cacao #illustration #workinprogress