Robert Stinner is a Washington, D.C.-based writer of fiction, essays, and criticism. Publications include fiction in River Styx and Muleskinner Journal, essays in Electric Literature, The Rumpus, LitHub, and Bright Wall/Dark Room, and film reviews in In Review Online.
Selected work
- Fiction
2
- Nonfiction
14

Death and the Bachelor
River Styx Magazine, 2025

The Fox's Visit
The Muleskinner Journal, 2024

“A Path to Happiness”: Commemorating Sex in Patrick Nathan’s The Future Was Color
The Rumpus, 2024

Oliver Quick Is Determined To Get Rich Or Die Trying
Electric Literature , 2024

Queer People Still Struggle To Find Support, Meaning, and Connection
Electric Literature , 2024

Eat it With a Spoon: On Mitchell Leisen's 'Easy Living' & 'Midnight'
Bright Wall/Dark Room, 2023

Queer Villains are Vital to Understanding Queer History
Electric Literature , 2023

The Hours’s Queer Chronologies
Bright Wall/Dark Room, 2022

The Hours and Times (1991): Almost a Love Affair
Bright Wall/Dark Room, 2022

How to Adapt Edith Wharton: In Praise of Terence Davies’s The House of Mirth
LitHub, 2022

Queer Criminality in Swoon and The Living End
Crime Reads, 2022

Queer Subversion in Art and Life
Animus, 2022

Todd Haynes’ Pop Idols
Animus, 2021

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MAYDAY, 2021

The Musical Moments of Postcards from the Edge — Crooked Marquee
Crooked Marquee, 2021

We Shall Have the World: Queer Utopian Desire in 'Evening Primrose'
Bright Wall/Dark Room, 2021