Jacqueline Woodson | Autobiography of a Family Photo | Growing up in Brooklyn during the Vietnam War, a young woman witnesses the tearing apart of her family by anger, finances, and the draft, and when her
Violette Leduc | La Batarde | In her second revealing memoir of literary Paris, Leduc shares her insights into a post-War Parisian scene dominated by the likes of Camus, Genet, Sar
Joan Schenkar | The Talented Miss Highsmith | Patricia Highsmith, one of the great writers of twentieth-century American fiction, had a life as darkly compelling as that of her favorite ‘hero-crim
Rhiannon Frater | Fighting To Survive: As The World Dies | Katie and Jenni have found new lives with the survivors of their makeshift fort, but danger still lurks. Nothing is easy in the new world where the de
Kate Lynn Hibbard | Sleeping Upside Down | ‘Kate Lynn Hibbard’s SLEEPING UPSIDE DOWN is a beautiful book of poetry, composed in well-crafted and pleasing cadences, sharing a vision of sexualit
Karla Jay; Allen Young | Lavender Culture | To read this book is to glimpse gay culture in its first morning…. It offers a comprehensive and poignant overview of a very special moment in gay c
Radclyffe Hall | The Well of Loneliness | First published in 1928, this timeless portrayal of lesbian love is now a classic. The thinly disguised story of Hall’s own life, it was banned outrig
Sidney Abbott; Barbara Love | Sappho Was a Right-On Woman | A radical change in a little-understood part of society has made this book possible. It is a change that is forcing people to reevaluate their attitud
Holly Hughes | Clit Notes | You never know how writing for the stage will translate to the page, but the five performance pieces in ‘Clit Notes’ make the move remarkably well. Pe
Shirley Jackson | Hangsaman | ‘The story of a haunted, brooding young girl trapped in a sinister world of her own making.’
Eighteen year old Natalie Waite is lost in a dar