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
Melissa Febos | Abandon Me | In her dazzling ABANDON ME, Melissa Febos captures the intense bonds of love and the need for connection — with family, lovers and oneself. First, h
Rose Walton | By Any Other Name | MEMOIR OF ROSE WALTON, AIDS EDUCATOR AND ACTIVIST, LGBT RIGHTS ACTIVIST
Morris Roy | Gertrude Stein Has Arrived | A focused biography, this book details the celebrated author and expatriate Gertrude Stein in her triumphant homecoming to America in 1934, following
Kate Carroll De Gutes | The Authenticity Experiment | The Authenticity Experiment: Lessons From the Best & Worst Year of My Life, essays from Kate’s critically-acclaimed blog, has been called “a pilgrim’s
Cat Cora | Cooking As Fast As I Can | “Affecting .as warm and comforting as a home-cooked meal” (People), a no-holds-barred memoir on Southern life, Greek heritage, same sex marriage–and
Emma Perez | Gulf Dreams | Gulf Dreams is the story of a Chicana who comes of age in a racist, rural Texas town. Through memory, the protagonist reexamines her unresolved obsess