Results for: book
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Broad! A Literary Zine For Broads Both Classy and Otherwise
Rachel’s Team Pick: You should submit something to Broad! A Gentlelady’s Magazine!
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Bookstore Customers Say the Darndest Things
Intern Bren’s Team Pick: “Who wrote the Bible again? I’ve forgotten.”
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Reading Rainbow Flash Mob with LeVar Burton
Intern Veronica’s Team Pick: The union of reading and flash mobs is finally here.
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Eileen Myles Believes In Evil But Not Witch Hunts
Rachel’s Team Pick: “I think it’s quietly genocidal. I mean in a spiritual sense. Instead of pole dancing you can be a pleasure rug. Just lie down! The money will come.”
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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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Autostraddle Read A F*cking Book Club
You look really pretty and smart today, and I wanna read a book with you. Then we can talk about it after, and I’ll tell you how soft and shiny your hair is. Does that sound good? I think so too.
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Some Weird and Not So Weird Habits of Famous Authors
Intern Bren’s Team Pick: Are you weirder than some of history’s weirdest authors? Probably and that’s why I love you.
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100 Awesome Magazine Covers Starring Lesbians
This gallery is seriously epic, and will appeal to anyone who likes lesbians and/or time travel.
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Writing and Eating and Drinking
Riese’s Team Pick: What do famous writers eat and drink while writing? What did Carson McCullers hide in her thermos? What do food writers eat? How much does Amy Sedaris know about Literary Drinkers?
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On What We Owe Allen Ginsberg
“The original hipster had come down to Earth.”
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Autostraddle Book Club Reads Inferno: It’s All Happening on November 19th
In perhaps the most unsurprising move of 2010, we have chosen Eileen Myles’ ‘Inferno’ as our first official book club pick. Get excited!
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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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Agustina Woodgate Brings Poetry to a Thrift Store Near You
Carmen’s Team Pick: There’s just something about a girl who makes art.
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How Will We Save LGBTQ Bookstores?
More and more gay bookstores are closing, which is bad for my bookstore addiction. Let’s talk this out.
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Mary Gray Knows What it Feels Like For Gay Kids in Rural America
“I’m not less gay when I take the rainbow sticker off my car. I just know that if I have that in my car, I’m going to piss off people who are already angry at me.”
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Oscar Wilde’s “Dorian Gray” Gets Uncensored and Totally Gay
Listen up, you heathen bookworms! The Picture of Dorian Gray’s uncensored, homogay tendencies have been restored.
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Pure Poetry #35: Lesbian Poet Kay Ryan Wins the Pulitzer Prize
She found out from her friend, ‘Kay Ryan you won a Pulitzer,’ on the phone. She won for her volume “The Best of It.”
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Pure Poetry #28 : Dorothy Porter
You really need to know about Dorothy Porter. She was an Australian poet, an out lesbian, and basically awesome.
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Sarah Kay on TED
“I don’t know if I could change the world, yet, because I don’t know that much about it.”
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Pure Poetry #25: Notes on Rainer “Rilke” Maria Rilke
Did you know that Rilke’s Mom initially raised him as a girl? True story.