For Now (Why I Write)
By: Eileen Myles
4.16
Format: 96 pages, Hardcover
In this raucous meditation, Eileen Myles offers an intimate glimpse into creativity’s immediacy. Wi…
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1. Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse
By: Anne Carson , Stesichorus
4.27
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
The award-winning poet Anne Carson reinvents a genre in Autobiography of Red, a stunning work that … read more
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- poetry
- queer
- lgbt
"Under the seams runs the pain."-Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse
"There is no person without a world."-Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse
"Don't want to be free want to be with you."-Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse
"Sometimes a journey makes itself necessary."-Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse
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3. The Writing Life
By: Annie Dillard
3.26
Format: 212 pages, Paperback
Annie Dillard has written eleven books, including the memoir of her parents, An American Childhood;… read more
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- art
- biography
- memoir
- nonfiction
- essays
- writing
4. Woolgathering
By: Patti Smith
3.64
Format: None pages, Paperback
A great book about becoming an artist, Woolgatheringtells of a youngster finding herself as she lea… read more
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- poetry
- biography
- memoir
- nonfiction
- essays
5. Cassandra at the Wedding
By: Deborah Eisenberg , Dorothy Baker
3.54
Format: None pages, Paperback
Cassandra Edwards is a graduate student at Berkeley: gay, brilliant, nerve-wracked, miserable. At t… read more
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- queer
- lgbt
6. Little Birds
By: Anaïs Nin
4.38
Format: None pages, Paperback
Evocative and superbly erotic, Little Birds is a powerful journey into the mysterious world of sex … read more
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7. Lunch Poems
By: Frank O'Hara
3.45
Format: None pages, Paperback
Important poems by the late New York poet published in The New American Poetry, Evergreen Review, F… read more
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- poetry
- queer
- lgbt
8. The Dud Avocado
By: Elaine Dundy , Terry Teachout
3.82
Format: 262 pages, Paperback
The Dud Avocado follows the romantic and comedic adventures of a young American who heads overseas … read more
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9. Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters
By: Annie Dillard
4.33
Format: 242 pages, Paperback
Here, in this compelling assembly of writings, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Annie Dillard explores… read more
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10. The Light of the World
By: Elizabeth Alexander
4.22
Format: 649 pages, Hardcover
In The Light of the World, Elizabeth Alexander finds herself at an existential crossroads after the… read more
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11. Journal of a Solitude
By: May Sarton
3.91
Format: 2 pages, Paperback
"I am here alone for the first time in weeks," May Sarton begins this book, "to take up my 'real' l… read more
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12. Walking Through Clear Water in a Pool Painted Black
By: Cookie Mueller
4.49
Format: 151 pages, Paperback
Cookie trips through her forty-year odyssey on this planet—from LSD to shopping at the A&P, from bi… read more
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- art
- biography
- memoir
- lgbt
- nonfiction
- essays
- queer
13. A Horse at Night: On Writing
By: Amina Cain
4.03
Format: 136 pages, Paperback
A virtuosic meditation on literature and life in the tradition of Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s … read more
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- art
- memoir
- nonfiction
- essays
- writing
"For me, fiction is a space of plainness and excess."-Amina Cain, A Horse at Night: On Writing
"Female solitude is weighted with a particular power in literature."-Amina Cain, A Horse at Night: On Writing
"I want to leave a chain of images that remain in the reader's mind. I want to write what heightened experience feels like."-Amina Cain, A Horse at Night: On Writing
"Perhaps solitude is a practice as much as an instinct, its pleasures very much contextual. Sometimes being alone is terrible."-Amina Cain, A Horse at Night: On Writing
14. Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma
By: Claire Dederer
3.79
Format: 257 pages, Hardcover
From the author of the New York Times best seller Poser and the acclaimed memoir Love and Trouble, … read more
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- art
- nonfiction
- memoir
- essays
"Biography used to be something you sought out, yearned for, actively pursued. Now it falls on your head all day long."-Claire Dederer, Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma
15. Perfume & Pain
By: Anna Dorn
4.06
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
A controversial Los Angeles author attempts to revive her career and finally find true love in this… read more
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- queer
- lgbt
"I sit down wanting to write the great lesbian love story, but wacko bitches just keep coming out."-Anna Dorn, Perfume & Pain
16. Working Girl: On Selling Art and Selling Sex
By: Sophia Giovannitti
4.07
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
An exploration into the very similar work of selling art and selling sex, from a luminous new voice… read more
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- art
- biography
- memoir
- nonfiction
- essays
17. Committed: On Meaning and Madwomen
By: Suzanne Scanlon
4.22
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
A raw and masterful memoir about becoming a woman and going mad—and doing both at once. When Su… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
"Only in retrospect might I say I loved it there. I didn't love it. It became familiar. I got used to it. I became dependent upon it. This is not love."-Suzanne Scanlon, Committed: On Meaning and Madwomen
"I became a writer because I believe in that part of me who is not limited by age or gender or time or disability - yet still I am afraid to say it. Yes, I was ill."-Suzanne Scanlon, Committed: On Meaning and Madwomen
"I myself have internalized the self-loathing that at times can make me feel ashamed to be writing this book. But I also believe that, as my heroes have shown me, this is where a writer must go."-Suzanne Scanlon, Committed: On Meaning and Madwomen
"What if, instead of being diagnosed—being called mentally ill—what if I had been able to receive care for its own sake. To be in distress, to ask for care, to receive it. What if there were space in …"-Suzanne Scanlon, Committed: On Meaning and Madwomen
18. All Fours
By: Miranda July
3.81
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
The New York Times–bestselling author of The First Bad Man returns with an irreverently sexy, tende… read more
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- queer
- lgbt
"But maybe the road split between: a life spent longing vs. a life that was continually surprising"-Miranda July, All Fours
"Maybe we shouldn't do that," Jordi said. "Flatten ourselves like that. Erratic doesn't have to mean crazy or irresponsible. Shouldn't we be normalizing change?"-Miranda July, All Fours
"I guess any calling, no mater what it is, is a kind of unresolved ache," I said, giving in to knowing more than him. "It's a problem that you can't fix, but there is some relief in knowing you will c…"-Miranda July, All Fours
"For me lying created just the right amount of problems and what you saw was just one of my four or five faces- each real, each with different needs. The only dangerous lie was one that asked me to co…"-Miranda July, All Fours
19. The Hurting Kind: Poems
By: Ada Limon
4.34
Format: 120 pages, Hardcover
An astonishing collection about interconnectedness—between the human and nonhuman, ancestors and ou… read more
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- poetry
- nonfiction
"There is a solitude in this world I cannot pierce. I would die for it."-Ada Limon, The Hurting Kind: Poems
"Before, the only thing I was interested in was love, how it grips you, how it terrifies you, how it annihilates and resuscitates you. I didn’t know then that it wasn’t even love that I was interested…"-Ada Limon, The Hurting Kind: Poems
20. My Autobiography of Carson McCullers
By: Jenn Shapland
4.09
Format: 266 pages, Hardcover
My Autobiography of Carson McCullers is an audacious new form of nonfiction that remakes the bounda… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- lgbt
- nonfiction
- queer
21. Blackouts
By: Justin Torres
3.77
Format: 306 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of We the Animals, Blackouts mines lost histories--personal and collect… read more
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- queer
- lgbt
22. How to Write an Autobiographical Novel
By: Alexander Chee
4.39
Format: 277 pages, Paperback
How to Write an Autobiographical Novel is the author’s manifesto on the entangling of life, literat… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- lgbt
- nonfiction
- essays
- writing
- queer
"Destroying art is practice for destroying people."-Alexander Chee, How to Write an Autobiographical Novel
"A novel, should it survive, protects what a missile can't."-Alexander Chee, How to Write an Autobiographical Novel
"...books were still to me as they had been when I found them: the only magic."-Alexander Chee, How to Write an Autobiographical Novel
"My first novel was not the first one I started. It was the first one I finished."-Alexander Chee, How to Write an Autobiographical Novel
23. Parade
By: Rachel Cusk
3.70
Format: 198 pages, Hardcover
From the exhilarating mind of Rachel Cusk, author of the Outline trilogy, Parade disturbs and defin… read more
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- art
"He knew that [his work] embodied change, and he wasn’t interested in change. He was interested in the fragments that change leaves behind in its storming passage toward the future."-Rachel Cusk, Parade
"Not to be understood is effectively to be silenced, but not understanding can in its turn legitimise that silence, can illuminate one’s own unknowability. Art is the pact of individuals denying socie…"-Rachel Cusk, Parade
"Sanity and insanity were not opposites but rather were the two faces of inanimate matter, the point at which the existence of consciousness can get no further in breaking down the existence of substa…"-Rachel Cusk, Parade
"The impulse to have a child is very often a response to the woman’s own childhood, as though her childhood has left her incomplete, or has taken a part of her that she is driven to find again. The st…"-Rachel Cusk, Parade
24. Marigold and Rose
By: Louise Glück
3.65
Format: 55 pages, Hardcover
Marigold and Rose is a magical and incandescent fiction from Nobel Prize laureate Louise Glück. … read more
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- poetry
25. Couplets
By: Maggie Millner
3.76
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
A woman lives an ordinary life in Brooklyn. She has a boyfriend. They share a cat. She writes poems… read more
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- poetry
- queer
- lgbt
"Change is constant and inexorable. You will fall in love. The relationship will end, though not at the same instant as the love. Some version of this will continue, maybe forever, happening to you. D…"-Maggie Millner, Couplets
"And when I held her cheek against my cheek, I was drawing from the well of love he filled. So I became after all not him exactly but a kind of conduit between them: a conversation they conducted with…"-Maggie Millner, Couplets
26. For Now (Why I Write)
By: Eileen Myles
4.16
Format: 96 pages, Hardcover
In this raucous meditation, Eileen Myles offers an intimate glimpse into creativity’s immediacy. Wi… read more
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- poetry
- art
- biography
- memoir
- lgbt
- nonfiction
- essays
- writing
- queer
27. Ordinary Notes
By: Christina Sharpe
4.55
Format: 392 pages, Hardcover
A singular achievement, Ordinary Notes explores profound questions about loss and the shapes of Bla… read more
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- poetry
- nonfiction
- memoir
- essays
28. Consent: A Memoir
By: Jill Ciment
3.96
Format: 145 pages, Hardcover
In this unflinching account of the ardent love affair between the author and her painting teacher, … read more
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- art
- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
29. Women: A Novella
By: Chloé Caldwell
3.90
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
The cult-classic novella that intimately explores one young writer’s whirlwind and whiplash affair … read more
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- queer
- lgbt
"I feel drawn to the word "unmoored" during this time. I look it up a few times a week. I stare at the definition on my computer screen. I love the example sentence Wikipedia uses, which says, Left un…"-Chloé Caldwell, Women: A Novella
"I become familiar with cold hard grounds. On a Friday night, I drink three too many glasses of wine and I call Finn. She makes no black humor jokes. It is not an erotic mess anymore, like Sabine once…"-Chloé Caldwell, Women: A Novella
30. Liars
By: Sarah Manguso
3.89
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A searing novel about being a wife, a mother, and an artist, and how marriage makes liars out of us… read more
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"I was in charge of everything and in control of nothing."-Sarah Manguso, Liars
"I needed my suffering to be acknowledged. After that, maybe I’d think about getting through it."-Sarah Manguso, Liars
31. Inadvertent
By: Karl Ove Knausgård
4.09
Format: 104 pages, Hardcover
The Why I Write series is based on the Windham-Campbell Lectures, delivered annually to commemorate… read more
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- art
- biography
- memoir
- nonfiction
- essays
- writing
