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Tag Archives: LGBT/Lesbian

Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

by Jeanette Winterson

“A daring, unconventional comic novel . . . by employing quirky anecdotes, which are told with romping humor, and by splicing various parables into…

My Mother: Demonology

by Kathy Acker

“What makes this book powerful is the archetypal punch behind each image, a punch that comes from an unknown assailant dressed in red wearing…

Locas

by Yxta Maya Murray

“Murray details these two girls’ grim histories with little sentimentality and much skill.” –The New York Times Book Review…

Literal Madness

by Kathy Acker

“Speaks to us out of a delightful mock-na’veté that reminds one at times of the Dick and Jane readers rewritten as manuals for politics…

In Another Place, Not Here

by Dionne Brand

“The remarkable poet Dionne Brand now gives us a fierce, sensuous novel of women in migration–political and emotional. Concrete and visionary as a dream,…

Great Expectations

by Kathy Acker

Beginning as a rewriting of Charles Dickens classic of the same name, Great Expectations spirals into Kathy Acker’s most notorious work of textual appropriation…

Essential Acker

by Kathy Acker

‘scarified sensibility, subversive intellect, and predatory wit make her a writer like no other I know.” –Tom LeClair, The New York Times Book Review

Empire of the Senseless

by Kathy Acker

Kathy Acker continues her post-modern explorations with a story set in a bleak world where the society we know is dying in its own…

Don Quixote

by Kathy Acker

“Scarified sensibility, subversive intellect, and predatory wit make her a writer like no other I know.” –Tom LeClair, The New York Times Book Review