James R. Mellow | Charmed Circle: Gertrude Stein And Company | Spanning the years from 1903, when Gertrude Stein first arrived in Paris, to her final days at the end of World War II, ‘Charmed Circle’ is a penetrat
Ellen Orleans | The Butches of Madison County | Can 50-something, quasi-yuppie Billie Bold find true happiness with an semi-straight Iowa farmwife Pasty Plain? You bet, when you’re reading an out-an
Rita Mae Brown | Rubyfruit Jungle | Rubyfruit Jungle is the first milestone novel in the extraordinary career of one of this country’s most distinctive writers. Bawdy and moving,
Madeline D. Davis; Elizabeth Lapovsky Kennedy | Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold | Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold traces the evolution of the lesbian community in Buffalo, New York from the mid-1930s up to the early 1960s. Drawin
Kay Williams; Eileen Wyman | Butcher Of Dreams | Set in the seedy mid-80s New York City neighborhood of Hell’s Kitchen–where drugs and prostitution run rampant–Lee Fairchild’s repertory theater is
Rosa Guy | Ruby | Rosa Guy is an extraordinary writer. In her novels Bird At My Window, The Friends, and now Ruby, Ms. Guys characters are so vivid, her language so tru
N. Martin Kramer | The Hearth and the Strangeness | An excellent novel of the fear of inherited insanity in a family. The youngest child, Aliciane, becomes a lesbian; this is one of the few realistic an
