Kay Van Deurs | The Notebooks That Emma Gave Me | Kay Van Deurs has shared with us her journal and various letters by and to her. They add up to an interesting autobiographical portrait that captures
Annie Rachel Lanzillotto | L Is for Lion: An Italian Bronx Butch Freedom Memoir | If you’re looking for a singular category for Annie Rachele Lanzillotto’s memoir L Is For Lion, you’ll be hard-pressed to choose just one. This sprawl
Joan Schenkar | The Talented Miss Highsmith | Patricia Highsmith, one of the great writers of 20th Century American fiction, had a life as darkly compelling as that of her favorite ‘hero-criminal
Philippe Jullian; John Phillips | The Other Woman | Violet Trefusis (1894?1972) was not one of the major talents of her time. She cannot be said even to belong to the famous Bloomsbury Group. Yet her li
Nancy Abrams | The Other Mother | ‘On a spring day in 1993, Nancy Abrams helped her daughter dress for day care, packed her lunch, and said good-bye. Next she drove to court, where she
Sandra Gail Lambert | A Certain Loneliness | “I remember always seeing the underneath of things,” begins “May or May Not,” one of the series of vignettes in Sandra Gail Lambert’s memoir, A Certai
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Una Vincenzo; Lady Troubridge Una | The Life And Death of Radclyffe Hall | Radclyffe Hall was one of the most preeminent women writers in the first half of the 20th century. Hall was an out lesbian, known for her high profile
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