Bessie by Chris Albertson is a biography of Bessie Smith, the blues singer known as the Empress of the Blues, who was the highest-paid African-American performer of the 1920s. Drawing on extensive interviews with Smith’s relatives, friends, and associates — including Ruby Walker Smith, a niece by marriage who toured with her for over a … Read more
A modernist poet’s semi-autobiographical novel about a young woman in her twenties discovering her identity, sexuality, and artistic voice through an intense friendship with another woman while engaged to Ezra Pound.
A metaliterary hybrid memoir-novel following lesbian writer Michelle through 1990s San Francisco’s queer scene and her drug-fueled relationships, as the world literally begins ending around her move to Los Angeles, blending addiction recovery with apocalyptic fiction.
A metaliterary hybrid memoir-novel following lesbian writer Michelle through 1990s San Francisco’s queer scene and her drug-fueled relationships, as the world literally begins ending around her move to Los Angeles, blending addiction recovery with apocalyptic fiction.
A poststructuralist feminist writer bridges the distance between love and language by chronicling a passionate love affair between two women, creating a poetic meditation on desire, intimacy, and identity.
A fierce and urgent autobiographical novel about a woman facing down a formidable foe
A modernist poet’s semi-autobiographical novel about a young woman in her twenties discovering her identity, sexuality, and artistic voice through an intense friendship with another woman while engaged to Ezra Pound.
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