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A Book of Days
Patti Smith · 2022
The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions
Larry Mitchell · 1991
The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions is a beloved queer utopian text written by Larry Mitchell with lush illustrations by Ned Asta. Part-fable, part-manifesto, the book takes place in Ramrod, an empire in decline, and introduces us to the communities of the faggots, the women, the queens, the queer men, and the women who love women who are surviving the ways and world of men. Cherished by many over the four decades since its publication, The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions offers a trenchant critique of capitalism, assimilation, and patriarchy that is deeply relevant today.
Middlesex: A Novel
Jeffrey Eugenides · 2002
<p><i>"I was born twice: first, as a baby girl, on a remarkably smogless Detroit day of January 1960; and then again, as a teenage boy, in an emergency room near Petoskey, Michigan, in August of l974. . . My birth certificate lists my name as Calliope Helen Stephanides. My most recent driver's license...records my first name simply as Cal."</i></p><p>So begins the breathtaking story of Calliope Stephanides and three generations of the Greek-American Stephanides family who travel from a tiny village overlooking Mount Olympus in Asia Minor to Prohibition-era Detroit, witnessing its glory days as the Motor City, and the race riots of l967, before they move out to the tree-lined streets of suburban Grosse Pointe, Michigan. To understand why Calliope is not like other girls, she has to uncover a guilty family secret and the astonishing genetic history that turns Callie into Cal, one of the most audacious and wondrous narrators in contemporary fiction. Lyrical and thrilling, <i>Middlesex </i>is an exhilarating reinvention of the American epic.</p><p><i>Middlesex </i>is the winner of the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.</p>
Open Me Carefully : Emily Dickinson's Intimate Letters to Susan Huntington Dickinson
Emily Dickinson · 1998
Heaven: A Novel
Mieko Kawakami • 2022
Lovesick
Angeles Mastretta • 1998
Sula
Toni Morrison • 2004
In Memoriam
Alice Winn • 2024
Happy All the Time
Laurie Colwin • 2014
The Hour of the Star
Clarice Lispector • 2020
The Iliad
Homer • 2024
The Goldfinch
Donna Tartt • 2013
The Secret Diary of Laura Palmer (Twin Peaks)
Jennifer Lynch • 2011
Just Kids: A National Book Award Winner
Patti Smith • 2010
<p> It was the summer Coltrane died, the summer of love and riots, and the summer when a chance encounter in Brooklyn led two young people on a path of art, devotion, and initiation. </p> <p> Patti Smith would evolve as a poet and performer, and Robert Mapplethorpe would direct his highly provocative style toward photography. Bound in innocence and enthusiasm, they traversed the city from Coney Island to Forty-second Street, and eventually to the celebrated round table of Max's Kansas City, where the Andy Warhol contingent held court. In 1969, the pair set up camp at the Hotel Chelsea and soon entered a community of the famous and infamous—the influential artists of the day and the colorful fringe. It was a time of heightened awareness, when the worlds of poetry, rock and roll, art, and sexual politics were colliding and exploding. In this milieu, two kids made a pact to take care of each other. Scrappy, romantic, committed to create, and fueled by their mutual dreams and drives, they would prod and provide for one another during the hungry years. </p> <p> <i>Just Kids</i> begins as a love story and ends as an elegy. It serves as a salute to New York City during the late sixties and seventies and to its rich and poor, its hustlers and hellions. A true fable, it is a portrait of two young artists' ascent, a prelude to fame. </p>
Boy Parts
Eliza Clark · 2020
Men Who Hate Women
Laura Bates · 2020
<b>***Laura Bates' new book <i>Fix the System, Not the Women </i>is out now in paperback***</b><br> <br> '<b>A fascinating, mind-blowing and deeply intelligent book that should be recommended reading for every person on our planet'</b> SCARLETT CURTIS<br> <br> <b>'Laura Bates puts out books that perfectly describe growing problems and possible solutions. She's a proper hero at the coal mouth'</b> CAITLIN MORAN<br> <br> <b>'Brilliantly fierce and eye-opening' </b><i>OBSERVER</i><br> ________________________________________________________<br> <br> <b>The extremism nobody talks about</b><br> <b>And how it affects us all</b><br> <br> Imagine a world in which a vast network of incels and other misogynists are able to operate, virtually undetected. These extremists commit deliberate terrorist acts against women. Vulnerable teenage boys are groomed and radicalised.<br> <br> You don't have to imagine that world. You already live in it. Perhaps you didn't know, because we don't like to talk about it. But it's time we start.<br> <br> In this urgent and groundbreaking book, Laura Bates, bestselling author and founder of The Everyday Sexism Project, goes undercover to expose vast misogynist networks and communities. It's a deep dive into the worldwide extremism nobody talks about.<br> <br> Interviews with former members of these groups and the people fighting against them gives unique insights on how this movement operates. Ideas are spread from the darkest corners of the internet - via trolls, media and celebrities - to schools, workplaces and the corridors of power, becoming a part of our collective consciousness.<br> <br> <b>Uncensored, and sometimes both shocking and terrifying - this is the uncomfortable truth about the world we live in. And what we must do to change it.</b><br> _________________________________________________________<br> <br> <b>'Passionate and forensic, Bates produces a powerful feminist clarion call. The world needs to take notice. Things must change'</b><b> </b>ANITA ANAND<br> <br> <b>'This is how change is made: by looking at uncomfortable things directly in the eye and not turning away. This book is a rallying cry to end suffering, for both women AND men'</b> EMMA GANNON<br> <br> <b>'Laura Bates is showing us the path to both intimate and global survival'</b> GLORIA STEINEM
My Lesbian Novel
Renee Gladman · 2024
<b>The latest in writer and visual artist Renee Gladman’s ever-expanding body of imaginative investigation is a sui generis novel of queerness and art-making, philosophy and sex.</b><br><br>The narrator of <i>My Lesbian Novel</i> is Renee Gladman, an artist and writer who has produced the same acclaimed body of experimental art and prose as real-life Renee Gladman, and who is now being interviewed by an unnamed interlocutor about a project in process, a seeming departure from her other works, a lesbian romance. <br> <br>Between reflections on art making and on the genre of lesbian romance—“though aspects of the formula drive me crazy . . . people who write these stories understand how beautiful women are”—a romance novel of her own takes shape on the page, written alongside the interview, which sometimes skips whole years between questions, so that time and aging become part of the process. <br> <br>The result is a beautifully orchestrated dialogue between reflection and desire, or clarity and confusion, between the pleasures of form and the pleasures of freedom in the unspooling of sentences over time.
Girl, Woman, Other
Bernardine Evaristo · 2020
Let Me Tell You What I Mean
Joan Didion · 2021
Devotion (Why I Write)
Patti Smith · 2018
On Women
Susan Sontag · 2023
Written on the Body
Jeanette Winterson · 2013
Set My Heart on Fire
Izumi Suzuki · 2024
Play It as It Lays
Joan Didion · 2011
Blue Nights
Joan Didion · 2011
The Decay Of Lying
Oscar Wilde · 2010
A Dolls House
Henrik Ibsen · 2014
ARCHIVE
SOFIA COPPOLA · 2023
The Communism of Love: An Inquiry into the Poverty of Exchange Value
Richard Gilman-Opalsky · 2020
The Fall
Albert Camus · 1991
Finished
Madonna in a Fur Coat
Sabahattin Ali • 2017
The Secret History
Donna Tartt • 2004
<b><b><b><b>ONE OF <i>TIME MAGAZINE</i>'S 100 BEST MYSTERY AND THRILLER BOOKS OF ALL TIME • </b>INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • A contemporary literary classic and "a<b>n accomplished psychological thriller ... absolutely chilling" (<i>Village Voice</i>)</b>, f<b>rom the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of <i>The Goldfinch.<br><br></i></b></b></b>One of <i>The Atlantic</i>’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years</b><br><br>Under the influence of a charismatic classics professor, a group of clever, eccentric misfits at a New England college discover a way of thought and life a world away from their banal contemporaries. But their search for the transcendent leads them down a dangerous path, beyond human constructs of morality.<br><br><b>“A remarkably powerful novel [and] a ferociously well-paced entertainment . . . Forceful, cerebral, and impeccably controlled.” —<i>The New York Times</i></b>
Reading
, said the shotgun to the head.
Saul Williams • 2009
