Bio/Memoir Archives

November 12, 2015 3 min read

This is an excellent well-researched biography that recreates the tumultuous years of an artist’s life who refused compromise from her convictions Read More

‘Trans’ by Juliet Jacques

Cat Fitzpatrick

Bio/Memoir Reviews

November 3, 2015 4 min read

Jacques struggles womanfully with the limitations of the transition memoir Read More

‘Hunger Makes Me A Modern Girl’ by Carrie Brownstein

Courtney Gillette

Bio/Memoir Reviews

October 11, 2015 3 min read

The debut memoir from Sleater Kinney member and Portlandia star Carrie Brownstein Hunger Makes Me A Modern Girl is a whip smart and compelling story that expertly blends music writing with personal revelations Read More

The Q Factor: ‘Born to Be Brad’ by Brad Goreski with Mickey Rapkin

Alex Tunney

Bio/Memoir

October 11, 2015 7 min read

Sometime after the time of airing independent films and performing arts programs and before the time of simply airing what...

‘Uncovered: How I left Hasidic Life and Finally Came Home’ by Leah Lax

Julie R. Enszer

Bio/Memoir Reviews

October 8, 2015 6 min read

Lax explores the ways in which men and women both encounter limitations in their lives through a fundamentalist religion and offers some insight into why they join. Read More

‘Alexander McQueen: Blood Beneath the Skin’ by Andrew Wilson

Curt Weber

Bio/Memoir Reviews

October 6, 2015 3 min read

This biography chronicles how success changes you: the ways in which the people fall away, as you become consumed with your new life(style) which, if not managed carefully, can overwhelm and consume Read More

‘Worlds Apart’ by David Plante

Kevin Brannon

Bio/Memoir Reviews

September 30, 2015 3 min read

For readers who yearn more for good dish than spiritual pondering, it does not hurt that Plante’s “connections” are of the very best kind: Germaine Greer, Phillip Roth, David Hockney, to name a few. Read More

‘Johnny Would You Love Me…(If My Dick Were Bigger)’ by Brontez Purnell

Theodore Kerr

Bio/Memoir Fiction

September 27, 2015 6 min read

By asking, “Would you love me if….?” Purnell is not inquiring about the limits of love, he announcing his awareness that limits exist and snubbing his nose accordingly Read More

‘Ain’t Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Around: Forty Years of Movement Building with Barbara Smith’ by Alethia Jones and Virginia Eubanks with Barbara Smith

John Erickson

Bio/Memoir Reviews

September 23, 2015 1 min read

[Ain't Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Around is] a collection of stories that stress not only the importance of a movement but also its role and influence in larger society and culture as a whole. Read More

“And I’ve Done It Again”: A Look at Grace Jones’ New Book ‘I’ll Never Write My Memoirs’

Bradford Nordeen

Bio/Memoir Opinion

September 20, 2015 7 min read

Not content to be a muse, Jones is a fiercely forward-thinking raconteur Read More

Reviews

Unearthing Queer Archive in Early 1990’s West Palm Beach, Florida

The Mars House: Science Fiction and the Hazards of Imagination

Maps of Belonging: Italian Trans Geographies

Random

How The Dead Teach the Living: A Dying Reader’s Guide

Features

Unearthing Queer Archive in Early 1990’s West Palm Beach, Florida

Maps of Belonging: Italian Trans Geographies

Dreaming up a Hopeful Future: A Conversation with Grist authors on queer climate fiction

Interviews

Bonds & Boundaries: A Conversation with Dale Corvino

Dreaming up a Hopeful Future: A Conversation with Grist authors on queer climate fiction

“What if it was both and all of the above?”: An interview with CJ Hauser

Excerpts

An Excerpt from Sleep Tight Satellite: Stories by Carol Guess

Read This! Excerpt from the delicacy of embracing spirals by mimi tempestt

Read This! Excerpt from American Gospel by Miah Jeffra

‘Romaine Brooks: A Life’ by Cassandra Langer

‘Trans’ by Juliet Jacques

‘Hunger Makes Me A Modern Girl’ by Carrie Brownstein

The Q Factor: ‘Born to Be Brad’ by Brad Goreski with Mickey Rapkin

‘Uncovered: How I left Hasidic Life and Finally Came Home’ by Leah Lax

‘Alexander McQueen: Blood Beneath the Skin’ by Andrew Wilson

‘Worlds Apart’ by David Plante

‘Johnny Would You Love Me…(If My Dick Were Bigger)’ by Brontez Purnell

‘Ain’t Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Around: Forty Years of Movement Building with Barbara Smith’ by Alethia Jones and Virginia Eubanks with Barbara Smith

“And I’ve Done It Again”: A Look at Grace Jones’ New Book ‘I’ll Never Write My Memoirs’

Unearthing Queer Archive in Early 1990’s West Palm Beach, Florida

The Mars House: Science Fiction and the Hazards of Imagination

Maps of Belonging: Italian Trans Geographies

The High Stakes of Young Adulthood: A Review of Idlewild by James Frankie Thomas

People Collide by Isle McElroy: A Review

Reviewing Bad Gays; or how we use the past to shape the future

A Review of Cassandra Khaw’s The Salt Grows Heavy

If property is theft, then what is a photograph? A Review of The Unintended by Monica Huerta