Category: Autobiography/Biography

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Middlebrow Queer by Jaime Harker

Middlebrow Queer | Jaime Harker | How could one write about gay life for the mainstream public in Cold War America? Many midcentury gay American writers, hampered by external and inter

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The Audacity Of A Kiss by Leslie Cohen

The Audacity Of A Kiss | Leslie Cohen | ‘The Audacity of a Kiss tells the story of Leslie Cohen, from her youth in Queens, New York during the ‘Mad Men’ era of the 1950s, to her young adulth

Posted in Autobiography/Biography Jewish Interests Memoir

My Life As A Boy by Kim Chernin

My Life As A Boy | Kim Chernin | ”If a woman in her thirties turns into a boy, that may mean she’s having trouble getting out of the place she’s in. She requires the instinctive, who

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Crossing The Border by Kim Chernin

Crossing The Border | Kim Chernin | Kim Chernin breaks literary boundaries and shatters silences in everything she writes – from her explosive memoir In My Mother’s House, hailed by News

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Patricia Highsmith: Her Diaries And Notebooks: 1941-1995 by Patricia Highsmith

Patricia Highsmith: Her Diaries And Notebooks: 1941-1995 | Patricia Highsmith | Relegated to the genre of mystery during her lifetime, Patricia Highsmith is now recognized as one of ‘our greatest modernist writers’ (Gore Vidal). B

Posted in Autobiography/Biography Sexuality

Whip Smart by Melissa Febos

Whip Smart Melissa Febos A dark, wild, powerful memoir about a young woman’s transformation from college student to professional dominatrix…

Posted in Autobiography/Biography Black Interest

Scars by A. Breeze Harper

A. Breeze Harper | Scars | Scars is a novel about whiteness, racism, and breaking past the normative boundaries of heterosexuality, as experienced through eighteen year old Sava

Posted in Autobiography/Biography Music

Broken Horses by Carlile Brandi

Carlile Brandi | Broken Horses | ‘Brandi Carlile was born into a musically gifted, impoverished family on the outskirts of Seattle and grew up in a constant state of change, moving fr

Posted in Autobiography/Biography Graphic Novel

My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness by Kabi Nagata

Kabi Nagata | My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness | The heart-rending autobiographical manga that’s taken the internet by storm!My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness is an honest and heartfelt look at o

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Leaving Isn’t the Hardest Thing: Essays by Lauren Hough

Leaving Isn’t the Hardest Thing: Essays Lauren Hough As an adult, Lauren Hough has had many identities: an airman in…