5 must-read biography memoir books like Peter Hujar's Day by Linda Rosenkrantz

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Peter Hujar's Day

By: Linda Rosenkrantz

4.27

Format: 46 pages, Paperback

On December 18, 1974, Linda Rosenkrantz asked her friend Peter Hujar to write down everything he di…

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1. À l'ami qui ne m'a pas sauvé la vie

By: Hervé Guibert

3.98

Format: 282 pages, Mass Market Paperback

«J'ai eu le sida pendant trois mois. Plus exactement, j'ai cru pendant trois mois que j'étais conda… read more

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"Muzil passa une matinée à l'hôpital pour faire des examens, il me raconta à quel point le corps, il l'avait oublié, lancé dans les circuits médicaux, perd toute identité, ne reste plus qu'un paquet d…"

-Hervé Guibert, À l'ami qui ne m'a pas sauvé la vie

"maintenant qu'il connaissait cette douleur Muzil la craignait par-dessus tout, ça se lisait désormais dans son oeil la panique d'une souffrance qui n'est plus maîtrisée à l'intérieur du corps mais pr…"

-Hervé Guibert, À l'ami qui ne m'a pas sauvé la vie

"Dans la cour de l'hôpital éclairée par ce soleil de juin qui devenait la pire injure au malheur, je compris, pour la première fois car quand Stéphane l'avait dit je n'avais pas voulu le croire, que M…"

-Hervé Guibert, À l'ami qui ne m'a pas sauvé la vie

"Je n'ai jamais si peu souffert que depuis que je sais que j'ai le sida, je suis très attentig aux manifestations de la progression du virus, il me semble connaître la cartographie de ses colonisation…"

-Hervé Guibert, À l'ami qui ne m'a pas sauvé la vie

Cover of Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration by David Wojnarowicz

2. Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration

By: David Wojnarowicz

4.48

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

In Close to the Knives, David Wojnarowicz gives us an important and timely document: a collection o… read more

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  • art
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
"I carry silence like a blood-filled egg."

-David Wojnarowicz, Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration

"When they invented the car they invented the collision and the darkness of what time leads the willing body to do."

-David Wojnarowicz, Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration

"I crawled through the walls of every social taboo I could come across. I wanted to celebrate everything we are denied through structure of laws or physical force. I just did it quietly and anonymousl…"

-David Wojnarowicz, Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration

"I wanted to be physically erased and start over again. I didn’t want to be here. I didn’t want to be there. I guess I wanted to be nowhere, I wanted to listen to my brain talk inside of nothingness. …"

-David Wojnarowicz, Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration

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3. The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions

By: Larry Mitchell , Ned Asta

4.50

Format: 114 pages, Paperback

The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions is a beloved queer utopian text written by Larry … read more

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"The strong women told the faggots that the more you share, the less you need."

-Larry Mitchell, The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions

"The women who love women wrote a song for the faggots. It was called, "Anything you do that the men don't like is o.k. by us."

-Larry Mitchell, The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions

"Ramrod has an empire. They have not had it very long yet already it is shabby and disreputable. Everyday the faggots and their friends can see, hear, and feel Ramrod's empire disintegrating as the me…"

-Larry Mitchell, The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions

"Nothing can defeat the spirit of the earth. The fairies know that the earth will not tolerate the men much longer. The earth, scarred and gouged and stripped and bombed, will deny life to the men in …"

-Larry Mitchell, The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions

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4. In the Shadow of the American Dream: The Diaries of David Wojnarowicz

By: David Wojnarowicz , Amy Scholder

3.00

Format: 126 pages, Paperback

Few artists have captured the emotional, sexual, and political chaos of modern urban life as percep… read more

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  • art
  • nonfiction
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5. Giovanni’s Room

By: James Baldwin

4.33

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Set in the contemporary Paris of American  expatraites, liasons, and violence, a young man finds  h… read more

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"Nobody can stay in the Garden of Eden."

-James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room

"Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition."

-James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room

"...for nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom."

-James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room

"I loved her as much as ever and I still did not know how much that was."

-James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room

6. Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography

By: Roland Barthes , Richard Howard

4.07

Format: None pages, Paperback

A graceful, contemplative volume, Camera Lucidawas first published in 1979. Commenting on artists s… read more

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7. On Photography

By: Susan Sontag

3.89

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

First published in 1973, this is a study of the force of photographic images which are continually … read more

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  • art
  • photography
  • nonfiction
"The painter constructs, the photographer discloses."

-Susan Sontag, On Photography

"Photographs shock insofar as they show something novel."

-Susan Sontag, On Photography

"Cameras miniaturize experience, transform history into spectacle."

-Susan Sontag, On Photography

"Una fotografía es a la vez una pseudopresencia y un signo de ausencia."

-Susan Sontag, On Photography

8. Strangeland

By: Tracey Emin

3.98

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Here I am, a fucked, crazy, anorexic-alcoholic-childless, beautiful woman. I never dreamt it would … read more

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9. 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
  • nonfiction

10. Rent Boy

By: Gary Indiana

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

Danny is a rent boy, an architecture student, a waiter, and hot! Working his way through school see… read more

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11. Chroma

By: Derek Jarman

4.06

Format: 255 pages, Paperback

Chroma is a meditation on the color spectrum by the celebrated late artist and filmmaker Derek Jarm… read more

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12. The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise

By: Olivia Laing

4.07

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

In 2020, Olivia Laing began to restore a walled garden in Suffolk, an overgrown Eden of unusual pla… read more

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  • nonfiction
"One of the operations by which capitalism perpetuates itself is displacement, the determined and absolute separation of the product from the site of production, so that when we buy petrol or peat fro…"

-Olivia Laing, The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise

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13. 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
  • nonfiction
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14. Grief Is for People

By: Sloane Crosley

3.91

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Following the death of her closest friend, Sloane Crosley explores multiple kinds of loss in this d… read more

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  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
"Grief is for people, not things."

-Sloane Crosley, Grief Is for People

"Suicide is a tax on human consciousness."

-Sloane Crosley, Grief Is for People

"How will he know you loved him," she asks, "unless you try to destroy yourself?"

-Sloane Crosley, Grief Is for People

"Pictures should be of what you see, not of what the world sees when it sees you."

-Sloane Crosley, Grief Is for People

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15. Exteriors

By: Annie Ernaux

3.57

Format: 91 pages, Paperback

Taking the form of random journal entries over the course of seven years, Exteriors concentrates on… read more

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  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
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16. Evenings and Weekends

By: Oisín McKenna

3.96

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

For fans of Sally Rooney and Torrey Peters, a taut and profoundly moving debut that follows a cast … read more

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17. Headshot

By: Rita Bullwinkel

3.63

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

An electrifying debut novel from an “unusually gifted writer” (Lorrie Moore) about the radical inti… read more

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"The desire to please people is the desire to not be singular."

-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot

"Tanya Maw's sister is two years older, the perfect age gap for wisdom transmission."

-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot

"It can be intoxicating to play a sport that requires one to look in their opponent's eyes."

-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot

"It's a warmth that she'll feel again very few times in her life. It's almost like love, but it has a surer, less desperate edge to it."

-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot

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18. 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

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19. Kudos

By: Rachel Cusk

3.89

Format: 236 pages, ebook

En un avión, una mujer escucha a su vecino de vuelo contarle la historia de su vida: su trabajo, su… read more

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"Perhaps it follows, he said, that people who live in the sun don't take responsibility for their own happiness."

-Rachel Cusk, Kudos

"We invent these systems with the aim of ensuring fairness, she said, and yet the human situation is so complex that it always evades our attempts to encompass it."

-Rachel Cusk, Kudos

"You asked me earlier,' she said to me, 'whether I believed that justice was merely a personal illusion. I don't have the answer to that,' she said, 'but I know that it is to be feared, feared in ever…"

-Rachel Cusk, Kudos

"We live with an almost superstitious belief in our own differences, she said, and Luis has shown that those differences are not the result of some divine mystery but are merely the consequence of our…"

-Rachel Cusk, Kudos

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20. The Story of Art Without Men

By: Katy Hessel

4.31

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

How many women artists do you know? Who makes art history? Did women even work as artists before th… read more

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  • art
  • nonfiction
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21. Love Me Tender

By: Constance Debré

3.87

Format: 187 pages, Kindle Edition

« Je ne vois pas pourquoi l’amour entre une mère et un fils ne serait pas exactement comme les autr… read more

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"Je ne suis pas une mère. Bien sûr que non. Qui voudrait l'être ? A part celles qui ont tout raté. Qui ont tellement échoué dans tout qu'elles n'ont trouvé que ce statut pour se venger du monde. Il y …"

-Constance Debré, Love Me Tender

"Je ne vois pas pourquoi l'amour entre une mère et un fils ne serait pas exactement comme les autres amours. Pourquoi on ne pourrait pas cesser de s'aimer. Pourquoi on ne pourrait pas rompre. Je ne vo…"

-Constance Debré, Love Me Tender

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22. Glitch Feminism: A Manifesto

By: Legacy Russell

3.81

Format: 178 pages, Paperback

Simone de Beauvoir said “One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.” The glitch announces: One i… read more

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  • art
  • nonfiction
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23. Ghost Image

By: Hervé Guibert

4.14

Format: 170 pages, Paperback

Besides writing fiction and personal essays, Hervé Guibert devoted his tragically brief life to the… read more

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  • art
  • photography
  • nonfiction
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24. Hit Parade of Tears

By: Izumi Suzuki

3.43

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

A new collection of stories from the cult author of Terminal Boredom. Izumi Suzuki had ideas abo… read more

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"Love isn't like a house you can just kick back and live in once its completed. No, it gets more worn and tattered day by day, unless you keep on making it up."

-Izumi Suzuki, Hit Parade of Tears

Cover of Pisti, 80 rue de Belleville by Estelle Hoy

25. Pisti, 80 rue de Belleville

By: Estelle Hoy

4.34

Format: 120 pages, Paperback

Estelle Hoy offers a wry exploration of the seductive allure of tropes and cliché in the art world … read more

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  • art
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26. What Artists Wear

By: Charlie Porter

4.12

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

An eye-opening and richly illustrated journey through the clothes worn by artists, and what they re… read more

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  • art
  • nonfiction
Cover of In Tongues by Thomas Grattan

27. In Tongues

By: Thomas Grattan

4.04

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A young gay man upends the lives of a powerful art-world couple in this steamy novel of self-discov… read more

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28. Weight of the Earth: The Tape Journals of David Wojnarowicz

By: David Wojnarowicz

4.31

Format: 181 pages, Paperback

In these moments I hate language. I hate what words are like, I hate the idea of putting these pref… read more

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  • art
  • nonfiction
Cover of Peter Hujar's Day by Linda Rosenkrantz

29. Peter Hujar's Day

By: Linda Rosenkrantz

4.27

Format: 46 pages, Paperback

On December 18, 1974, Linda Rosenkrantz asked her friend Peter Hujar to write down everything he di… read more

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  • art
  • biography memoir
  • photography
  • nonfiction
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30. Creation Lake

By: Rachel Kushner

3.67

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

From Rachel Kushner, a Booker Prize finalist, two-time National Book Award finalist, and “one of th… read more

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"Charisma does not originate inside the person called "charismatic." It comes from the need of others to believe that special people exist."

-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake

"Plus, Lucien said, a lot of them had come from other social milieus and had tattoos from earlier lives, since people who change affinities are the same kinds of people who are attracted to the perman…"

-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake

"My biker and these tramps, as people who organize their life around some subculture or other: People can sometimes pretend so thoroughly that they forget they are pretending. At which point, it could…"

-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake

"I could sense him gathering a false hindsight that afternoon in the Place des Vosges, shaping a retrospective narrative, the thing a person tells himself about fate, about how everything had seemed f…"

-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake

Cover of Instructional Photography: Learning How to Live Now by Carmen Winant

31. Instructional Photography: Learning How to Live Now

By: Carmen Winant

4.09

Format: 120 pages, Paperback

A timely and explosive book by acclaimed artist and writer Carmen Winant, Instructional Photography… read more

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  • art
  • photography

14 Best nonfiction books like Peter Hujar's Day by Linda Rosenkrantz

Transform Your Habits

Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration

David Wojnarowicz

4.48

Transform Your Habits

In the Shadow of the American Dream: The Diaries of David Wojnarowicz

David Wojnarowicz , Amy Scholder

3.00

Transform Your Habits

On Photography

Susan Sontag

3.89

Transform Your Habits

Walking Through Clear Water in a Pool Painted Black

Cookie Mueller

4.49

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Transform Your Habits

Play It As It Lays

Joan Didion , David Thomson

3.92

Transform Your Habits

The Bluest Eye

Toni Morrison

4.12

Transform Your Habits

The Stranger

Albert Camus , Matthew Ward , Stuart Gilbert , None

4.02

Transform Your Habits

White Nights

Fyodor Dostoevsky

4.06

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