Results for: book
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Be Still My Heart: Eileen Myles Tackles the Female Life; Black Lesbian Poets Hit the Road
I am convinced that something Eileen Myles loves is something I will love. That is, if I don’t love it already.
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Things I Read That I Love #11
Topics include Bill O’Reilly’s mental health, botched murder investigations in Baltimore, Downton Abbey, Dan Savage, Brandon Teena and the for-profit Phoenix University.
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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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Things I Read That I Love #3
The internet is a great place to read things!
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On “Tango: My Childhood Backwards and in High Heels”
“So much second-guessing involved every decision that I made that I became a paradox in a way, a combination of bravado and insecurity.”
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Things I Read That I Love #7
This week we’ll travel to North Korea, but also to Portland! Topics include oxy addiction, the NBA, wax museums and murder/suicide!
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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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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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Things I Read That I Love #6
Topics include pill culture, tough-love teen homes, Lorrie Moore, marketing, plane crashes and Justin Bieber!
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Top Ten Fantasy Novels That Have Gay People In Them
This is a list of YA fantasy novels that fall somewhere between tangentially gay and really, really gay. They all fall under “read this immediately.”
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You Probably Want to Read Some Lesbian Pulp Fiction
Summer is almost over! Try to forget about that by reading some lesbian pulp fiction.
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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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Preview Of Laurie Weeks’ Zipper Mouth: Gay, Obsessed, Addicted
Laurie Weeks’ debut novel Zipper Mouth is coming out this October. You might have feelings about this.
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Autostraddle Read A F*cking Book Club #1: Eileen Myles’ Inferno
Did you read Inferno by Eileen Myles, our first-ever Autostraddle book club selection? I sure as hell hope so, BECAUSE IT’S TIME TO TALK ABOUT IT.
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Things I Read That I Love #4
Topics include Trader Joe’s, symbolism, teacher-student affairs, muzack, quinceañeras and The West Memphis Three!
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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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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.”