Results for: book
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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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Things I Read That I Love #21: Eat, Sleep, Read
This week’s topics include gay reparation therapy, online sports message boards, Thomas Kinkade, Suzanne Collins and being a better writer!
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“The Marriage Plot” Thickens, Kinda
“Middlesex” author Jeffery Eugenides new novel “The Marriage Plot” is really good! But is it really aptly described as “a feminist re-telling”? Not so much.
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Things I Read That I Love #19: Are You Experienced?
Topics include The Daily Mail, Treyvon Martin, Dartmouth fraternity hazing, wilderness camps for troubled teens, bookstores and so much more!
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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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Read A F*cking Book Club #3: We’re Reading Bastard Out Of Carolina!
We’re going to read Bastard Out Of Carolina and we want you to read it with us!
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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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Things I Read That I Love #14: Your Lucky Day
Today’s topics include audiobooks, long-distance running, exotic pets, murder, Steve Jobs and plagiarism!
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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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Things I Read That I Love #20: Happy Birds
Topics include “a Web Site named Livejournal”, Münchausen by internet, the publishing, industry risky writing, teaching film in prison and Angry Birds.
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Another Top 10 Lesbian Romance Novels (Currently On My Kindle)
Romance novels: they’re not just for straight people anymore. In this episode we have hot cops/FBI agents, congresswomen passing more than bills, and lots of folks playing doctor.
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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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More Feminist Non-Fiction Recommendations for Your Reading Pleasure
Five feminist books for you!
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Autostraddle Read A F*cking Book Club #2: The IHOP Papers by Ali Liebegott
THE TIME HAS COME to discuss your feelings/ideas/lucid dreams/lesbian poetry about The IHOP Papers. Come on in and grab a seat.
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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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Seriously Guys, We Need You To Read This F*cking Book
YOU GUYS. You haven’t read this book yet have you. Please do this. Do it for me. I need to talk about my feelings about waitressing. There’s a lesbian sex scene! At least one! I can’t remember exactly!
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Things I Read That I Love #12
Topics include Hollister, the U.S. prison system, an amusement park about Charles Dickens, Mitt Romney and AshleyMadison.com!
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On Style, Eileen Myles
Everything about this is something you love.