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
Catherine Friend | Hit by a Farm |
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
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