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Seattlestraddle 12 years, 3 months agoIf you’re not busy with Pride events this weekend, make the trek up to Everett for two days of fast and hard-hitting roller derby. It’ll be a great time! Atlanta, Kansas City, Seattle, and Everett teams will all be there.
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The Great Library of Autostraddle 12 years, 4 months agoI just want to thank Autostraddle for bringing Andrea Gibson to my full attention (and the rest of the Pure Poetry series too obviously…). Sure I’d heard of her before but did I ever *really* listen?
I got ‘Pole Dancing to Gospel Hymns’ this morning and it is so addictive. I keep sneaking peeks at it in my work breaks. She’s just so lyrical. I…[Read more]-
I’m a huge fan of just about everything Catherynne Valente writes, poetry or prose. I got one of her poetry books recently, A Guide to Folktales in Fragile Dialects, and it was brilliant. It explores and reinterprets women’s roles in folktale motifs. It’s more fun than I make it sound, I swear ;)
She’s also got this epic poem going online…[Read more]
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Thanks for this. ‘Palimpsest’ is on my ‘to read’ list but perhaps her poetry will be a good place to start. The retelling of folktales and myths sounds like something I’d enjoy.
As for Parker, I like her poetry as well (Symptom Recital is superb!) but I’ve never been able to get into her stories.
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Seattlestraddle 12 years, 4 months agoDon’t be shy! Come find us at Hopvine. Tomorrow 6/21 @ 8pm bring $3 for your entry fee. Hint: If you want to actually sit at an actual table come early and help me hold it down!
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Yipesorry! I misinformed you on the day. Trivia at Hopvine next Tuesday – 6/28. All the other info is true. Anyway, this should give you ample recovery time post-Pride and another chance to rehash all your favorite memories…
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Is the hopvine/their trivia night all ages? Or might they let a properly demarcated minor in?
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I am so there. I can rock sciencey-type questions like nobody’s business.
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The Great Library of Autostraddle 12 years, 4 months agoRecommended LGBT reading:
The Well of Loneliness – Hall
Surpassing the Love of Men – Lillian Faderman
Naked in the Promised Land – Faderman
Tipping the Velvet – Sarah Waters
Rubyfruit Jungle – Rita Mae Brown
The letters of Virgina Woolf and Vita Sackville West
The Beebo Brinker Series – Ann Bannon
Aquamarine – Carol Anshaw
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The Great Library of Autostraddle 12 years, 4 months agoso i decided that i’m going to read only books by female authors this summer after realizing that women are woefully underrepresented in my personal library and in my list of favorite authors. so far i’ve read the twilight series (ughhh i know…. i just like books and movies with characters that have no redeemable qualities), girls to the front…[Read more]
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also, i would totally recommend still life! it has a respectful view on taxidermy from a person who is initially an outsider to the field. it covers the history and present of taxidermy concisely but thoroughly. i’m definitely biased towards it because i appreciate taxidermy but even if you aren’t the author breaks down stereotypes and gives a…[Read more]
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I am glad that you want to spotlight women in literature. here is a web sight by women about women in literature. http://vidaweb.org/
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when people tell me that they read twilight, i usually try to get them to check out “better” vampire books. three quick favorites (and this is from someone who really doesn’t enjoy vampires – but these are well written/hilarious):
Evernight series by Claudia Gray
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ooo, I would recommend ‘Slouching Towards Bethlehem’ by Joan Didion. It’s a beautifully varied collection of essays about California in the sixties. If anything, I’d say read the essay on San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury culture during the Summer of Love is most definitely worth a look. :]
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I would definitely read Atlas Shrugged instead of The fountain head if you are going to do Ayn Rand. I mean though you have to take a step back and try realllllly hard not to get sucked up in the fantasy world she weaves and realize that it cannot work and that she left out major major points. But it is a fantastic novel =]
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Geek Love fucked with my head so hard omg, I’m jealous that you get to take that trip.
I generally strongly recommend against reading anything by Ayn Rand but like Angela said at least Atlas Shrugged is a better(ish – it’s still really bad) story.
Jack the Ripper – Case Closed is a compelling argument but not really case closed. It’s awesome…[Read more]
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thanks for all the suggestions, these are definitely getting added to my list! i’m also putting ‘tipping the velvet’ and ‘orlando’ on and probably some sylvia plath (but not the bell jar, i read that right before a semi-recent break up and it was a baaaad idea)
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I like the idea of reading only female writers. I’ve spoken with a lot of friends (male and female) who seem to dismiss them. I’ve been keeping a list of all the books I’ve read this year, so far I’ve read 31 of which (unintentionally) 20 were women. I think my favourites probably were by women as well.
Can I recommend Margaret Atwood (Oryx and…[Read more]-
i love margaret atwood.so.much.
jamie, if you read any of hers and decide you like them, i’d like to suggest barbara kingsolver. both writers have a lot of eco-feminist themes in their books, and i think that if you enjoy one, you’ll like the other. (i personally like ‘prodigal summer’ and ‘the poisonwood bible’ best out of kingsolver’s books)
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You said you wanted to read graphic novels – my favorite graphic novel by a lady is Alison Bechdel’s FUN HOME. Not only is the art fantastic but it’s an amazing literary coming-of-age / coming out story.
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oh man, i love fun home! i think i’m either going to have to re-read or buy it this summer, probably both
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I’ve been pimping Catherynne Valente like there’s no tomorrow, but she’s so awesome and I love every word she writes.
‘Foxfire: Confessions of a Girl Gang’ by Joyce Carole Oates is a really great story, as well as a scathing critique of the treatment of gender, class, and race. With bonus lesbosexy subtext!If you like urban fantasy, Dianne…[Read more]
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If you read YA or fantasy, Malinda Lo’s “Ash” and “Huntress” (especially Huntress) are quite great and easy read.
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the name of the star, by maureen johnson #jacktheripper #contemporary
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The Great Library of Autostraddle 12 years, 4 months agoBest books about music? Alex Ross’s The Rest is Noise: Listening to the 20th Century is my all-time favorite. I love his work.
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i just read “Five Flavors of Dumb” by Antony John. Piper, the main character, is going to school one day and she and her classmates are confronted by a guerilla performance by her high school’s resident rock band. she gets cocky and bets them that she can get them a paying gig in a month as their manager. are they any good? she has no idea. Piper…[Read more]
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Hmm. Geoff Dyer’s ‘But Beautiful’…
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