Things I Read That I Love #35: Proper Nouns
Topics include the Norway shooting, Nadia Comaneci, R.L Stine, Haruki Murakami, Gloria Allred, welfare-to-work programs, death row, eating disorders & Saved By the Bell!
Stories from the Subway: Visit the Underground New York Public Library
If you like books and street photography, UNYPL is going to be your new happy place.
Read a F*cking Book: “No Straight Lines: Four Decades of Queer Comics”
A definitive collection of queer comics through the past four decades.
Yet Another Top 10 Lesbian Romance Novels
Love stories featuring lesbian Secret Service agents, doctors, super spies, life coaches, personal trainers and women of many other professions.
Things I Read That I Love #34: Frontierland
Topics include medical experiments on prisoners, Nan Goldin, sex in the Olympic Village, war, yoga, ladyblogs, an anti-gay extortion ring, Mormons making money and more!
Read a F*cking Canadian Book, Eh: Ann-Marie MacDonald’s “Fall On Your Knees”
What if the nerdy bookstore owner from “Better Than Chocolate” wrote a book of her own? Oh, wait, she DID!
Read A F*cking eBook: Best Lesbian Titles Under $5
You probably want to read some lesbian and queer books this summer. Here are a few that are under $5.
Read A F*cking Book: ‘Something Spectacular’
Greta Gleissner is a former Radio City Rockette whose memoir details her career as a professional dancer while struggling with bulimia and coming to terms with her sexuality.
Read a F*cking Book: “Brazen Femme: Queering Femininity”
On makeup: “this ritualized mask-making / not to hide behind / but to put forth”
Emma and Nicola Wrote A Novel About Britney Spears: The Autostraddle Interview
Emma McLaughlin & Nicola Kraus (“The Nanny Diaries”) re-imagine the story of how Britney Spears ended up under her father’s permanent legal control in their new novel.
Science Confirms Reading Fiction Is Making You A Better Person
A fascinating new “theory of fiction” from Stanford University!
Emily Dickinson At Last Call, and Other Delightful Drunk Texts
Rachel’s Team Pick: Drunk texts from Sappho!
Ann Bannon, Queen of Lesbian Pulp Fiction: The Autostraddle Interview
“And so while I would have loved to have done what Laura did, to go to New York and try to find myself, I did the more conventional thing, and I think I was not alone in that.”
Listling Without Commentary: Readers’ Descriptions Of Long-Lost Books From Whatsthatbook.com
“written around 1950’s with main character running in a cabbage patch wearing a diaper at end of novel”
Read a F*cking Book: “Odd Girls & Twilight Lovers: A History of Lesbian Life in 20th-Century America”
If I had the power to declare this the official book of Herstory Month, I would. But I don’t have that power. Only you have that power. And you should read this book!
Alison Bechdel Talks In Speech Bubbles With The Rumpus
Rachel’s Team Pick: “You look a lot more friendly in person than you do in your comic.”
Things I Read That I Love #27: What Have We Done
Topics include tattoos, an ultra-Orthodox anti-internet rally, memes, Noomi Rapace, food stamps, inequality, and travel photography!
Read A F*cking Book: Alison Bechdel’s “Are You My Mother?”
“Yeah, but don’t you think that… that if you write minutely and rigorously enough about your own life… you can, you know, transcend your particular self?”
Things I Read That I Love #26: Great Power
Topics include Fresno, internet marketing, consumerism vs. crafts, the McWane foundries, Justin Bieber, the opulence of hip-hop, tumblr and so much more!
Things I Read That I Love #25: Everybody Worships
Topics include my thirties, Canadian health care, women’s writing, anti-bullying programs and what the hell to do with your life according to Margaret Atwood and/or David Foster Wallace.