Cruising the Dead River: David Wojnarowicz and New York's Ruined Waterfront
By: Fiona Anderson
4.34
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
In the 1970s, Manhattan’s west side waterfront was a forgotten zone of abandoned warehouses and pie…
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1. Fire in the Belly: The Life and Times of David Wojnarowicz
By: Cynthia Carr
4.54
Format: 624 pages, Hardcover
David Wojnarowicz was an abused child, a teen runaway who barely finished high school, but he emerg… read more
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- art
- history
- lgbt
- nonfiction
- queer
"Leaving France after a month with Jean Pierre was less emotionally devastating this time. Still, David felt anger over the constant separation. “This cutting off of emotions because of laws, governme…"-Cynthia Carr, Fire in the Belly: The Life and Times of David Wojnarowicz
"I ended up going into this big art historical argument.' [Barry Blinderman] invoked, for example, Matthias Grünewald’s Isenheim altarpiece, painted in the sixteenth century for a monastery where monk…"-Cynthia Carr, Fire in the Belly: The Life and Times of David Wojnarowicz
"As they walked out onto Second Avenue, with David in a body bag, there was one last surreal moment. The singer and composer Diamanda Galás happened to be walking by. She and David had never met, but …"-Cynthia Carr, Fire in the Belly: The Life and Times of David Wojnarowicz
2. The White Album
By: Joan Didion
4.05
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
First published in 1979, Joan Didion's The White Album records indelibly the upheavals and aftermat… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
"Somewhere between the Yolo Causeway and Vallejo it occurred to me that during the course of any given week I met too many people who spoke favorably about bombing power stations."-Joan Didion, The White Album
"I have trouble maintaining the basic notion that keeping promises matters in a world where everything I was taught seems beside the point. The point itself is increasingly obscure."-Joan Didion, The White Album
"A place belongs forever to whoever claims it hardest, remembers it most obsessively, wrenches it from itself, shapes it, renders it, loves it so radically that he remakes it in his image..."-Joan Didion, The White Album
"Making judgments on films is in many ways so peculiarly vaporous an occupation that the only question is why, beyond the obvious opportunities for a few lectures fees and a little careerism at a disp…"-Joan Didion, The White Album
3. 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
- nonfiction
- queer
- lgbt
"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
4. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
By: Junot Díaz
3.89
Format: 335 pages, Hardcover
Things have never been easy for Oscar, a sweet but disastrously overweight, lovesick Dominican ghet… read more
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"You can't regret the life you didn't lead."-Junot Díaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
"Like they say: los que menos corren, vuelan."-Junot Díaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
"It's never the changes we want that change everything."-Junot Díaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
"I might have no one in the world, but at least I’m free."-Junot Díaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
5. Times Square Red, Times Square Blue
By: Samuel R. Delany
4.18
Format: 203 pages, Paperback
If one street in America can claim to be the most infamous, it is surely 42nd Street. Between Seven… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- queer
- lgbt
"A glib wisdom holds that people like this just don’t want relationships. They have “problems with intimacy."-Samuel R. Delany, Times Square Red, Times Square Blue
"In order to dismantle such a discourse we must begin with the realization that desire is never “outside all social constraint."-Samuel R. Delany, Times Square Red, Times Square Blue
6. Hollywood Babylon
By: Kenneth Anger
5.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Hollywood Babylonwas originally published in Paris, and quickly became an underground legend. Not a… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
7. Halsted Plays Himself (Semiotext
By: William E. Jones
4.03
Format: 480 pages,
Fred Halsted's L.A. Plays Itself (1972) was gay porn's first masterpiece: a sexually explicit, auto… read more
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- nonfiction
- queer
8. Memories That Smell Like Gasoline
By: David Wojnarowicz
3.97
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Not content to be a tremendous photographer, painter, film-maker, performance artist and activist D… read more
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- art
- nonfiction
- queer
- lgbt
9. Les Bonnes
By: Jean Genet
3.60
Format: 222 pages, Pocket Book
The Maids (Les Bonnes) is Jean Genet's most oft-revived work for the stage. First performed in Pari… read more
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"I, his mistress, mad with grief, shall follow him...I shall share his glory. You speak of widowhood and deny me the white gown - the mourning of queens."-Jean Genet, Les Bonnes
10. Another Country
By: James Baldwin
4.08
Format: None pages, Paperback
When Another Countryappeared in 1962, it caused a literary sensation. James Baldwin's masterly stor… read more
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11. The Doors of Perception & Heaven and Hell
By: Aldous Huxley
2.83
Format: None pages, Paperback
As only he can, Aldous Huxley explores the mind's remote frontiers and the unmapped areas of human … read more
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12. Manifesto Cyborg
By: Donna J. Haraway
3.26
Format: 32 pages,
Dopo aver tematizzato l'esistenza del cyborg, "creatura della realta sociale econtemporaneamente de… read more
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13. 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
- nonfiction
- queer
- lgbt
14. Hurricane Season
By: Fernanda Melchor
4.06
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A New York Times Notable Book (2020) A Guardian Best Book of 2020 A Literary Hub Favorite Book of… read more
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"а разнообразие и за да не губи навик, баба, когато е ядосана, си спомня само за лошите неща"-Fernanda Melchor, Hurricane Season
"за разнообразие и за да не губи навик, баба, когато е ядосана, си спомня само за лошите неща"-Fernanda Melchor, Hurricane Season
"There's no reasoning with dog, two ferocious dogs who refuse to let go of their prey until they've been torn to shreds"-Fernanda Melchor, Hurricane Season
"момчето, щом порасна, се превърна в диво животно, което, пуснеха ли го на свобода, дори по никое време вечер, все го теглеше към гората, защото според баба ѝ този бил начинът да възпитават момчетата,…"-Fernanda Melchor, Hurricane Season
15. Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us
By: Rachel Aviv
4.12
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
In Strangers to Ourselves, a powerful and gripping debut, Rachel Aviv raises fundamental questions … read more
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- nonfiction
"It's startling to realize how narrowly we avoid, or miss, living radically different lives."-Rachel Aviv, Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us
"For a child, solipsistic by nature, there are limits to the ways that despair can be communicated. Culture shapes the scripts that expressions of distress will follow. In both anorexia and resignatio…"-Rachel Aviv, Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us
16. It Came from the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror
By: Joe Vallese
4.18
Format: 298 pages, Paperback
Through the lens of horror—from "Halloween" to "Hereditary"—queer and trans writers consider the fi… read more
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- nonfiction
- queer
- lgbt
"Androgyny doesn't look a certain way, though gender is ingrained in society such that liberal readings are applied to everyone, sprinkling gender on everything from haircuts to careers to alcoholic b…"-Joe Vallese, It Came from the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror
17. The Late Americans
By: Brandon Taylor
3.38
Format: 303 pages, Hardcover
A deeply involving new novel of young men and women at a crossroads In the shared and private sp… read more
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- queer
- lgbt
18. Who's Afraid of Gender?
By: Judith Butler
4.02
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From a global icon, a bold, essential account of how a fear of gender is fueling reactionary politi… read more
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- nonfiction
- queer
- lgbt
"Imagine if you were Jewish and someone tells you that you are not. Imagine if you are lesbian and someone laughs in your face and says you are confused since you are really heterosexual. Imagine if y…"-Judith Butler, Who's Afraid of Gender?
19. Raving
By: McKenzie Wark
3.81
Format: 136 pages, Hardcover
What is an art of life for what feels like the end of a world? In Raving McKenzie Wark takes reader… read more
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- art
- nonfiction
- queer
- lgbt
20. Cruising the Dead River: David Wojnarowicz and New York's Ruined Waterfront
By: Fiona Anderson
4.34
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
In the 1970s, Manhattan’s west side waterfront was a forgotten zone of abandoned warehouses and pie… read more
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- art
- history
- lgbt
- nonfiction
- queer
21. Touching the Art
By: Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore
4.46
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A daringly observant memoir about intergenerational trauma, fine art, and compartmentalization from… read more
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- art
- nonfiction
- queer
- lgbt
