Socialist Realism
By: Trisha Low
4.12
Format: 168 pages, Paperback
When Trisha Low moves west, her journey is motivated by the need to arrive “somewhere better”―somep…
Want to Read $ 8.92"Some names have been changed. Some facts may have succumbed to recollection."-Trisha Low, Socialist Realism
"Some names have been changed. Some facts may have succumbed to recollection."-Trisha Low, Socialist Realism
"It doesn't matter if you're inside or outside the closet. Either way, it's impossible to know if you can ever really be free."-Trisha Low, Socialist Realism
"It doesn't matter if you're inside or outside the closet. Either way, it's impossible to know if you can ever really be free."-Trisha Low, Socialist Realism
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1. Citizen: An American Lyric
By: Claudia Rankine
4.27
Format: 169 pages, Paperback
A provocative meditation on race, Claudia Rankine's long-awaited follow up to her groundbreaking bo… read more
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- poetry
- politics
- nonfiction
- essays
"You can't drive yourself sane."-Claudia Rankine, Citizen: An American Lyric
"Memory is a tough place. You were there."-Claudia Rankine, Citizen: An American Lyric
"That's the bruise the ice in the heart was meant to ice."-Claudia Rankine, Citizen: An American Lyric
"The past is a life sentence, a blunt instrument aimed at tomorrow."-Claudia Rankine, Citizen: An American Lyric
2. America Is in the Heart: A Personal History
By: Carlos Bulosan , Carey McWilliams
3.91
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
First published in 1946, this autobiography of the well known Filipino poet describes his boyhood i… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
3. The Dream of a Common Language
By: Adrienne Rich
4.33
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
"The Dream of a Common Language explores the contours of a woman's heart and mind in language for e… read more
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- poetry
- lgbt
- feminism
- nonfiction
- queer
"and they still control the world, and you are not in my arms."-Adrienne Rich, The Dream of a Common Language
"I choose to love this time for once with all my intelligence -from "Splittings"-Adrienne Rich, The Dream of a Common Language
"but from here on I want more crazy mourning, more howl, more keening -from "A Woman Dead in Her Forties"-Adrienne Rich, The Dream of a Common Language
"We stayed mute and disloyal because we were afraid I would have touched my fingers to where your breasts had been but we never did such things"-Adrienne Rich, The Dream of a Common Language
4. The Comedy of Errors
By: William Shakespeare
3.72
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
Excerpt from Die Kom�die der Irrungen Geste Grayorum or the History of the High and mighty Princ… read more
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- poetry
"Why should their liberty than ours be more?"-William Shakespeare, The Comedy of Errors
"El tiempo es insolvente y debe más de lo que tiene."-William Shakespeare, The Comedy of Errors
"Mi corazón ora por él, aunque mi lengua lo maldiga."-William Shakespeare, The Comedy of Errors
"¡A cuántos tontos enamorados esclaviza la locura de los celos!"-William Shakespeare, The Comedy of Errors
5. Go Tell It on the Mountain
By: James Baldwin
4.35
Format: None pages, Paperback
Go Tell It On The Mountain, first published in 1953, is Baldwin's first major work, a semi-autobiog… read more
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6. Veronica
By: Mary Gaitskill
3.59
Format: None pages,
The extraordinary new novel from the acclaimed author of Bad Behaviorand Two Girls, Fat and Thin, V… read more
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7. The Essential Dykes to Watch Out For
By: Alison Bechdel
4.50
Format: 182 pages, Hardcover
From the author of Fun Home -- the lives, loves, and politics of cult fav characters Mo, Lois, Sydn… read more
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- feminism
- queer
- lgbt
8. The Argonauts
By: Maggie Nelson
3.91
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
An intrepid voyage out to the frontiers of the latest thinking about love, language, and family Ma… read more
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- memoir
- lgbt
- feminism
- nonfiction
- essays
- queer
9. I Love Dick
By: Chris Kraus , Eileen Myles , Joan Hawkins
3.81
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
In I Love Dick, Chris Kraus, author of Aliens & Anorexia, Torpor, and Video Green, boldly tears awa… read more
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- art
- feminism
10. The Woman Warrior
By: Maxine Hong Kingston
3.52
Format: 257 pages,
A Chinese American woman tells of the Chinese myths, family stories and events of her California ch… read more
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11. Zami: A New Spelling of My Name
By: Audre Lorde
3.88
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
ZAMI is a fast-moving chronicle. From the author's vivid childhood memories in Harlem to her coming… read more
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12. Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars: A Dangerous Trans Girl’s Confabulous Memoir
By: Kai Cheng Thom
1.75
Format: 134 pages, Paperback
Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars: A Dangerous Trans Girl's Confabulous Memoir by Kai Cheng Thom is… read more
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13. Dictee
By: Theresa Hak Kyung Cha
4.57
Format: None pages, Paperback
Dictee is the best-known work of the versatile and important Korean American artist Theresa Hak Kyu… read more
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14. Bliss Montage
By: Ling Ma
3.91
Format: 228 pages, Hardcover
A new creation by the author of Severance, the stories in Bliss Montage crash through our carefully… read more
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"To live is to exist within time. To remember is to negate time."-Ling Ma, Bliss Montage
"It doesn't take much to come into your own; all it takes is someone's gaze."-Ling Ma, Bliss Montage
"Maybe you don't know that you're wounded until you receive the salve. The salve that makes everything come back."-Ling Ma, Bliss Montage
"It was a time when the future could have been anything, been anywhere. It was so open that it could actually crush her."-Ling Ma, Bliss Montage
15. Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals
By: Saidiya Hartman
4.46
Format: 441 pages, Paperback
A breathtaking exploration of the lives of young black women in the early twentieth century. In … read more
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- feminism
- nonfiction
- queer
- lgbt
"No, Kropotkin never described black women's mutual aid societies or the chorus in Mutual Aid, although he imagined animal society in its rich varieties & the forms of cooperation & mutuality found am…"-Saidiya Hartman, Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals
16. August Blue
By: Deborah Levy
3.68
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
A new novel from the Booker Prize finalist Deborah Levy, the celebrated author of The Man Who Saw E… read more
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"We agreed that whatever happened next in the world, we would still rub conditioner into our hair after we washed it and comb it through to the ends, we would soften our lips with rose-, strawberry-, …"-Deborah Levy, August Blue
17. The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On
By: Franny Choi
3.99
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
From acclaimed poet Franny Choi comes a poetry collection for the ends of worlds--past, present, an… read more
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- poetry
- queer
- lgbt
"I have last year's ashes in my throat, stories stuffed so full of morals they bleed sugar."-Franny Choi, The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On
"How can I explain the things and things and things I did wrong? I was never any good at telling the difference between what wanted me and what wanted me gone"-Franny Choi, The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On
18. Open Throat
By: Henry Hoke
4.01
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
A lonely, lovable, queer mountain lion narrates this star-making fever dream of a novel. A quee… read more
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- queer
- lgbt
19. Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
By: Cathy Park Hong
4.21
Format: 209 pages, Hardcover
Poet and essayist Cathy Park Hong blends memoir, cultural criticism, and history to expose the trut… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- essays
"When I hear the phrase “Asians are next in line to be white,"-Cathy Park Hong, Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
"The avant-garde genealogy could be tracked through stories of bad-boy white artists who “got away with it,"-Cathy Park Hong, Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
"the curse of anyone nonwhite is that you are so busy arguing what you're not that you never arrive at what you are."-Cathy Park Hong, Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
"Hollywood is still so racist against Asians that when there’s a rare Asian extra in a film, I tense up for the chinky joke and relax when there isn’t one."-Cathy Park Hong, Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
20. A Flat Place: Moving Through Empty Landscapes, Naming Complex Trauma
By: Noreen Masud
4.20
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
A surprising and lyrical journey—part memoir, part nature book—meditating on the meaning of "flatne… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
"We tell stories to make them visible. Or we tell stories so that we don’t have to look at them any longer."-Noreen Masud, A Flat Place: Moving Through Empty Landscapes, Naming Complex Trauma
"Supposedly trauma transcends language and time, and is therefore untellable. Perhaps sometimes it does and is. But I think traumatized people do know how to tell their stories. What’s difficult is th…"-Noreen Masud, A Flat Place: Moving Through Empty Landscapes, Naming Complex Trauma
"Supposedly, trauma transcends language and time, and is therefore untellable. Perhaps sometimes it does, and is. But I think traumatized people do know how to tell their stories. What’s difficult is …"-Noreen Masud, A Flat Place: Moving Through Empty Landscapes, Naming Complex Trauma
"I was held captive by this unyielding, silent space, and I began to understand two things. The flatness wasn’t an absence - not in the way we might assume it is - but something strong and original an…"-Noreen Masud, A Flat Place: Moving Through Empty Landscapes, Naming Complex Trauma
21. Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl
By: Andrea Lawlor
3.87
Format: 354 pages, Paperback
It’s 1993 and Paul Polydoris tends bar at the only gay club in a university town thrumming with pol… read more
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- queer
- lgbt
"Inside Paul something tight released: a rusted nut turned finally around its old bolt. White sheets were thrown off moldering couches with a fanfare of dust and sunlight."-Andrea Lawlor, Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl
"It was June, and like everyone else Paul made himself extremely busy going to queer art openings and queer punk shows and queer spoken word showcases and queer evenings of performance art. He was exh…"-Andrea Lawlor, Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl
22. Craft in the Real World: Rethinking Fiction Writing and Workshopping
By: Matthew Salesses
4.47
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
A groundbreaking resource for fiction writers, teachers, and students, this manifesto and practica… read more
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- nonfiction
- essays
"Workshops operate on the golden-rule policy: do for others as you want for yourself. Your fellow classmates will see from your comments what kind of feedback to give no matter how much of a push the …"-Matthew Salesses, Craft in the Real World: Rethinking Fiction Writing and Workshopping
"You should ask macro questions and point out macro opportunities. Which means, for example, you might state your understanding (or not) of the story, list observations that seem especially juicy, ask…"-Matthew Salesses, Craft in the Real World: Rethinking Fiction Writing and Workshopping
"When you are workshopped, it is important to remember that you will not connect with everything that is said. You shouldn’t! Don’t listen to everything; don’t take every suggestion—trust your instinc…"-Matthew Salesses, Craft in the Real World: Rethinking Fiction Writing and Workshopping
23. Drifts
By: Kate Zambreno
3.67
Format: 328 pages, Hardcover
A restlessly brilliant novel of creative crisis and transformation Beguiling and compulsively re… read more
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- art
24. Djinn City
By: Saad Z. Hossain
3.71
Format: 413 pages, Paperback
Indelbed is a lonely kid living in a crumbling mansion in the super dense, super chaotic third worl… read more
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25. Tiempos recios
By: Mario Vargas Llosa
4.03
Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition
LA NUEVA NOVELA DE MARIO VARGAS LLOSA, PREMIO NOBEL DE LITERATURA Una historia de conspiraciones … read more
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- politics
26. Arrangements in Blue
By: Amy Key
3.84
Format: 223 pages, Hardcover
Arrangements in Blue elegantly honors the life lived completely by—and for—oneself. Inspired by Jon… read more
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- poetry
- nonfiction
- memoir
- essays
27. A History of My Brief Body
By: Billy-Ray Belcourt
4.20
Format: 192 pages, Kindle Edition
The youngest-ever winner of the Griffin Prize mines his personal history in a brilliant new essay c… read more
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- poetry
- memoir
- lgbt
- nonfiction
- essays
- queer
"I'm as lonely and as brief as a country."-Billy-Ray Belcourt, A History of My Brief Body
"Living in a world where people are guns is a brutal legacy."-Billy-Ray Belcourt, A History of My Brief Body
"Regardless, I forgive them just as I forgive naive versions of myself."-Billy-Ray Belcourt, A History of My Brief Body
"Teens don't read for beauty, but to practice the art of disappearance."-Billy-Ray Belcourt, A History of My Brief Body
28. Antiman: A Hybrid Memoir
By: Rajiv Mohabir
4.17
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Winner of the 2019 Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing Finalist for the 2022 PEN Open… read more
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- poetry
- memoir
- lgbt
- nonfiction
- queer
"I'd never thought of writing as a gift, but a skill and a bravery that you have after refusing to burn up in flame. It was an act against death."-Rajiv Mohabir, Antiman: A Hybrid Memoir
29. The Body Papers
By: Grace Talusan
4.29
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Winner of The Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing, Grace Talusan’s memoir The Body Paper… read more
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- feminism
- nonfiction
- memoir
30. The Only Living Girl on Earth
By: Charles Yu
3.33
Format: 120 pages, Kindle Edition
From the genre-defying, critically beloved author of How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Univ… read more
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31. Socialist Realism
By: Trisha Low
4.12
Format: 168 pages, Paperback
When Trisha Low moves west, her journey is motivated by the need to arrive “somewhere better”―somep… read more
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- poetry
- art
- memoir
- lgbt
- theory
- feminism
- politics
- nonfiction
- essays
- queer
"Some names have been changed. Some facts may have succumbed to recollection."-Trisha Low, Socialist Realism
"It doesn't matter if you're inside or outside the closet. Either way, it's impossible to know if you can ever really be free."-Trisha Low, Socialist Realism
"Ironically, our tools for escapism usually end up as allegories of what's true. In other words, when push comes to shove, you can't escape reality."-Trisha Low, Socialist Realism
"I'm upset because it feels like you can't write the personal without it fitting neatly into some larger cause. These days, there's no room to make art unless its loyalties are straightforward, like h…"-Trisha Low, Socialist Realism
