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
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