Results for: book
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Science Says Reading the Classics Makes You Smarter, Nicer, Better Overall
If you enjoy Shakespeare, other classical texts, and poetry, your brain has superpowers.
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Sir James Dyson Likes Vacuums, Dislikes French Lesbian Poetry
“Imagine how wonderful it would be to take a class on French lesbian poetry in university, but wait, who’s that British man in a suit, aspirating your French lesbian poetry textbooks into his bag-free vacuum cleaner?”
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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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Stories from the Subway: Visit the Underground New York Public Library
If you like books and street photography, UNYPL is going to be your new happy place.
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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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Top Five Famous Queer Lady Writers and their Dogs
“Girlfriends will love you and leave you, but your four-legged friend’s desire to wake you each morning with an enthusiastic lick will never waver.”
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In Which We Remember Maurice Sendak
“When everyone else was like, “There’s no such thing as monsters, kid” Sendak was all, “You’re damn right there’s monsters in your bedroom, so you best not give them a reason to eat you.”
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End Times Approach For LGBT Newsweekly, Gay Bookstore and Feminist Bookstore
Hard times for Portland’s Just Out Newsmagazine, Toronto’s Glad Day’s bookstore and Minneapolis’ True Colors Bookstore.
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Things I Read That I Love #3
The internet is a great place to read things!
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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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Things I Read That I Love
I read these things from newspapers, magazines and websites and I think you will like them too.
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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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Listling Without Commentary: Books On the Shelves of My Mom’s Guestroom
What color is YOUR aura?
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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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On What We Owe Allen Ginsberg
“The original hipster had come down to Earth.”
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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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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 #31: Mary Oliver
Mary Oliver writes poetry about nature. Both kinds of nature.