Results for: book
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Reading on Catalan Valentine’s Day
Laura’s team pick: A rose for love and a book forever.
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Alison Bechdel Talks In Speech Bubbles With The Rumpus
Rachel’s Team Pick: “You look a lot more friendly in person than you do in your comic.”
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Emily Dickinson At Last Call, and Other Delightful Drunk Texts
Rachel’s Team Pick: Drunk texts from Sappho!
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Lily’s Team Pick: Better Book Titles
Better Book Titles Tumblr: Because it would be really funny if Steinbeck’s “The Grapes of Wrath” was actually titled “Fuck tha Police”.
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Carolyn’s Team Pick: Responses to Esquire’s List of “75 Books Every Man Should Read”
“Do not read books by women to murder your inner sexist pig. Do it because Edith Wharton can f*cking write. It’s that simple.”
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Looking into Writers’ Bedrooms, Personal Style, Lives
Carolyn’s Team Pick: Flannery O’Connor’s looks like it would be good for napping.
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The Days Of Yore: Writers and Artists Before “Making It”
“In high school I worked at McDonald’s. Got fired. I worked at a fabric store. Got fired. In college I worked as a custodian. Got fired. Wasn’t too good at the physical stuff. One person asked me if I was so bad on purpose or whether I was really that uncomprehending of the relation between soap and water.”
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Maurice Sendak Is Curmudgeonly, Brilliant, Tells You To Go To Hell
Whitney’s Team Pick: Maurice Sendak, author of “Where the Wild Things Are” is as brilliant and curmudgeonly as ever in this mini documentary. I love you, Maurice.
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Jess’s Team Pick: The “It Gets Better” Book
The “It Gets Better” campaign is becoming a book. Guess who’s in it? Okay, it’s Autostraddle’s own Gabrielle Rivera!
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“Cult Classic of Taiwanese Lesbian Literature” Now Excerpted In English, Available Online
Rachel’s Team Pick: “My prototype of a woman was the type who would appear in hallucinations at the last moments of your freezing to death at the top of an icy mountain, a mythical beauty who blurred the line between dreams and reality.”
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In Which You May Avail Yourself of Free Advice On How and Why to Write
Rachel’s Team Pick: “When one writes a thing — when you discover and then put it down, which is the essence of discovering it — one is done with it. What people get out of it is none of the writer’s business.”
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Who Runs the Literary World? These Girls!
Rachel’s Team Pick: Trying to make a list of only 10 badass women writers is really hard.
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Get A Conversation with Eileen Myles All To Yourself
I want to help you have a conversation with Eileen Myles. It starts on the Internet.
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Rejection Letters Are Good For You, Especially When They’re Not For You
Carmen’s Team Pick: That’s what rejection letters are y’all. They’re just mistakes.
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On Style, Eileen Myles
Everything about this is something you love.
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(Un)Official Declaration of Visit Your Local Independent Bookstore Day
Borders is in the process of no longer existing, Amazon mistreats its employees, and it’s banned books week. Get thee to a(n independent) bookstore!
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My Misspent Youth
Riese’s Team Pick: “Like the naïve teenager who thought Mia Farrow’s apartment represented the urban version of middle-class digs, I continued to believe throughout college that it wasn’t fabulous wealth I was aspiring to, merely hipness.”
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Missed Connections Might Be The Best Thing About Monday
Rachel’s Team Pick: What if Missed Connections were REALLY PRETTY?
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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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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.”