Tag: Great

Posted in Autobiography/Biography Award Winner

The Talented Miss Highsmith by Joan Schenkar

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

Posted in Award Winner YA Fiction (Young Adult)

Like Water by Rebecca Podos

Rebecca Podos | Like Water | A gorgeously written and deeply felt literary young adult novel of identity, millennial anxiety, and first love, from the widely acclaimed author of T

Posted in Short Story Collection (Multiple Authors)

21 Variations On A Theme by Donald Webster Cory

Donald Webster Cory | 21 Variations On A Theme | Short stories, many previously published in magazines, concerning homosexuality. One story in this collection is the lesbian story, “Ruth and Irma” by

Posted in Poetry

Body Work by Emilia Nielsen

Emilia Nielsen | Body Work | If Body Work begins by writing desire through a belief in the stability of the physical body, this is undone in exploring symptoms of disease, new sel

Posted in Fiction Grier Rated

Tortoiseshell Cat by Naomi Royde-Smith

Naomi Royde-Smith | Tortoiseshell Cat | This is the first novel of the prolific Naomi Royde-Smith, who published a large number of novels, plays, non-fiction and anthologies, as well as work

Posted in Autobiography/Biography Grier Rated

The Other Woman by Philippe Jullian; John Phillips

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

Posted in Fiction Grier Rated

The Princess Zoubaroff by Ronald Firbank

Ronald Firbank | The Princess Zoubaroff | The Princess Zoubaroff is a witty, subversive, and unbelievably suggestive play, far ahead of its time. Through razor-sharp dialogue and outrageous sc

Posted in Romance

Next Year, for Sure by Zoey Leigh Peterson

Zoey Leigh Peterson | Next Year, for Sure | After nine years together, Kathryn and Chris have the sort of relationship most would envy. They speak in the shorthand they have invented, complete o

Posted in Award Winner Poetry

Fox: Poems 1998-2000 by Adrienne Rich

Adrienne Rich | Fox: Poems 1998-2000 | In this volume, Adrienne Rich pursues her signature themes and takes them further: the discourse between poetry and history, interlocutions within and

Posted in Grier Rated Poetry

Crossing the DMZ by Martha Shelley

Martha Shelley | Crossing the DMZ | Poetry from activist and author Martha Shelley ‘an alternative service to the draft.’