Results for: book
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Read A F*cking Book GIVEAWAY: Win a Copy of “Blue Is The Warmest Color”
We want to hook two commenters up with copies of Julie Maroh’s graphic novel, Blue is the Warmest Color!
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2014 Lambda Literary Award Winners Announced, Include Alison Bechdel, Imogen Binnie And More
This year’s Lambda Award winners were announced yesterday evening and now it’s time to read ALL OF THEM.
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Read Banned Books, Be The Revolution
Banned Books Week is like Christmas for me: it allows me to queer my reading like I queer my gender. Party hard with some inappropriate reading!
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Read a F*cking Book: “Brazen Femme: Queering Femininity”
On makeup: “this ritualized mask-making / not to hide behind / but to put forth”
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Read a F*cking Canadian Book, Eh: Ann-Marie MacDonald’s “Fall On Your Knees”
What if the nerdy bookstore owner from “Better Than Chocolate” wrote a book of her own? Oh, wait, she DID!
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Lambda Literary Awards 2012: New Books to Love
The 2012 Lambda Literary Award finalists have been announced! I want to read everything.
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Gay YA Novels Reflecting Reality for LGBT Teens, Including Homelessness
“I want there to be more books like The Education of Queenie McBride, and I want there to be more teens able to access them.”
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Lady Writers Win More Book Prizes, Take Leap In Right Direction
The National Book Award finalists have been announced, and a majority of them are by female authors.
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Science Confirms Reading Fiction Is Making You A Better Person
A fascinating new “theory of fiction” from Stanford University!
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Hot Authors Have a Way With Words, Are Also Really Hot
There’s a really amazing picture of Michelle Tea inside this post.
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Autostraddle Read A F*cking Book Club #2 – Let’s Read The IHOP Papers!
“Liebegott’s debut novel is a coming-of-age coming-out in the tradition of Rita Mae Brown’s Rubyfruit Jungle, but here, the portrait of an artist as punk waitress is more a celebration of sexuality than humanity. Twenty-year-old Francesca is a recovering drunk who finds comfort in cutting herself and harbors fantasies of her beautiful AA sponsor, Maria; her former philosophy teacher, Irene; and a soap opera heroine.”
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Portia de Rossi on Oprah: Read a F*cking (Lesbian) Book, Perhaps Unbearable Lightness
Portia de Rossi walks Oprah through the eating disorders she developed as a result of being a teen model and the stress of hiding her sexuality as she climbed the Hollywood ladder. Her story is universal, whether you are gay or have ever been on a diet.
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Win a Signed Copy of ‘ThxThxThx’ and Obliterate Your Ingratitude
“Leah Dieterich’s mother always told her to write thank you notes. So she does.”
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Pure Poetry #31: Mary Oliver
Mary Oliver writes poetry about nature. Both kinds of nature.