Category: Autobiography/Biography

Eric Rosswood | We Make It Better | Readers of The ABCs of LGBT by Ashley Mardell and Queer: A Graphic History by Dr. Meg-John Barker will love We Make It Better, a quintessential LGBT b

Eileen Myles | Afterglow | I’m not a dog lover, but I am a longtime Eileen Myles fan, so I eagerly delved into the author’s memoir Afterglow, which pays homage to Myles’ now dec

Claudia Black Ph.D. | Double Duty: Gay Lesbian | The author of It Will Never Happen to Me! presents five life stories of recovering people, as well as her own personal story, who grew up gay or lesbi

Marusya Bociurkiw | Comfort Food for Breakups | Traversing decades and continents, Comfort Food for Breakups is an elegiac, sensual, and beguiling memoir about food, family, and personal history by

Mason Funk | The Book of Pride | THE BOOK OF PRIDE captures the true story of the gay rights movement from the 1960s to the present, through richly detailed, stunning interviews with

Kate Carroll De Gutes | Objects in Mirror Are Closer Than They Appear | Objects In Mirror Are Closer Than They Appear, winner of the 2016 Oregon Book Award for Creative Nonfiction and the Lambda Literary Award, looks at so

Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha | Dirty River | A few years ago, I saw Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha read at Culture Fuck, and Oakland-based POC/Mixed reading that happens on a monthly basis. She

Renée Vivien | A Woman Appeared to Me | An autobiographical novel recounting the author’s love affair with Natalie Clifford Barney, originally published in Paris in 1904.

Myriam Gurba | Mean | ‘Myriam Gurba’s debut is the bold and hilarious tale of her coming of age as a queer, mixed-race Chicana. Blending radical formal fluidity and caustic

Marusya Bociurkiw | Food Was Her Country | How can a god-fearing Catholic, immigrant mother and her godless, bohemian daughter possibly find common ground? Food Was Her Country is the story of