Nicole J. Georges | Fetch: How a Bad Dog Brought Me Home | Nicole Georges’ second book is, like her first book Calling Doctor Laura, a graphic novel and memoir. But it’s also a love story, dedicated not to ano
Barrie Jean Borich | Apocalypse, Darling | Barrie Jean Borich’s Apocalypse, Darling is a lyrical memoir that reads like a long-form narrative poem, wrought with long, sweeping sentences and dre
Mary Cappello | Called Back | “Mary Cappello’s Called Back shimmers on the page. Ezra Pound said a writer has to make it new’ and Cappello has done that rare feat. Cancer books ha
June Rose | The Perfect Gentleman | The life of Dr. James Miranda Barry, born about 1799, who, disguised as a man, served in the British army for forty- six years until retirement at the
William Patrick Patterson | Ladies Of The Rope | This is the first book to examine the Rope, the special ladies-only group of spiritual seekers that G. I. Gurdjieff formed on Paris’ Left Bank. All le
Joseph Leach | Bright Particular Star | I thought at first that Mr. Leach had adopted too fictional a tone for this long biography. Facts are communicated as they might have impinged on thos
Claire Robson | Love in Good Time | This memoir is by turns laugh-out-loud funny and heartbreakingly poignant. It is a coming-out story that tackles the trade-offs some gay people make a
Ria Brodell | Butch Heroes | Visual artist Brodell delivers an ambitious and wonderfully celebratory ode to the lives of 28 people over many centuries ‘assigned female at birth’ w
Tig Notaro | I’m Just a Person | In the span of four months in 2012, Tig Notaro was hospitalized for a debilitating intestinal disease called C-diff, her mother unexpectedly died, she
Abbe Smith | Case of a Lifetime | A recent study estimates that thousands of innocent people are wrongfully imprisoned each year in the United States. Some are exonerated through DNA e