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Achieving eleven Top 10 albums (plus nine with the Smiths), his songs have been recorded by David Bowie, Nancy Sinatra, Marianne Faithfull, Chrissie Hynde, Thelma Houston, My Chemical Romance and Christy Moore, amongst others.

An animal protectionist, in 2006 Morrissey was voted the second greatest living British icon by viewers of the BBC, losing out to Sir David Attenborough. In 2007 Morrissey was voted the greatest northern male, past or present, in a nationwide newspaper poll. In 2012, Morrissey was awarded the Keys to the City of Tel-Aviv.

It has been said 'Most pop stars have to be dead before they reach the iconic status that Morrissey has reached in his lifetime.'

Autobiography covers Morrissey's life from his birth until the present day.]]> 457 Morrissey Sigrid N. 0 to-read 3.62 2013
author: Morrissey
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]]> 3430848 240 Otsuichi 1427811377 Sigrid N. 0 to-read 4.01 2002
author: Otsuichi
name: Sigrid N.
average rating: 4.01
book published: 2002
rating: 0
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]]> 19416959 204 Peter Dubé 1590210131 Sigrid N. 5 4.44 2012
author: Peter Dubé
name: Sigrid N.
average rating: 4.44
book published: 2012
rating: 5
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]]> 20123986 204 Peter Dubé Sigrid N. 5 5.00 2012
author: Peter Dubé
name: Sigrid N.
average rating: 5.00
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rating: 5
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]]> 13446399 652 Mick Mercer Sigrid N. 4 4.57 1996
author: Mick Mercer
name: Sigrid N.
average rating: 4.57
book published: 1996
rating: 4
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]]> 608287 Jesus' Son, the first collection of stories by Denis Johnson, presents a unique, hallucinatory vision of contemporary American life unmatched in power and immediacy and marks a new level of achievement for this acclaimed writer. In their intensity of perception, their neon-lit evocation of a strange world brought uncomfortably close to our own, the stories in Jesus' Son offer a disturbing yet eerily beautiful portrayal of American loneliness and hope.

Contains:
Car Crash While Hitchhiking
Two Men
Out on Bail
Dundun
Work
Emergency
Dirty Wedding
The Other Man
Happy Hour
Steady Hands at Seattle General
Beverly Home']]> 160 Denis Johnson 0060975776 Sigrid N. 0 to-read 4.16 1992
author: Denis Johnson
name: Sigrid N.
average rating: 4.16
book published: 1992
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]]> 18114466 312 Antonia Crane 1940207061 Sigrid N. 4 addiction, memoir 4.02 2014
author: Antonia Crane
name: Sigrid N.
average rating: 4.02
book published: 2014
rating: 4
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]]> 525677 From the author of Come Closer and the Claire DeWitt series comes a highly acclaimed—and unusual—gritty thriller about a missing girl...and the addict tasked with saving her.

Josephine, a former addict, is offered a thousand dollars to find a suburban couple's missing daughter. But the search will take her into the dark underbelly of New York she thought she'd escaped—and a web of deceit that threatens to destroy her.]]> 243 Sara Gran 0425214362 Sigrid N. 0 to-read 3.68 2006
author: Sara Gran
name: Sigrid N.
average rating: 3.68
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]]> 10458085
Back in 5 Minutes ~ an expression of depression Volume 1

Back in 5 Minutes is a collection of poetry, lyrics, short stories, excerpts of scripts and artwork from established and emerging talent. The 'expression of depression' series of anthologies arose from a journal and pad of art therapy pictures recorded during a stint in rehab. The idea was to collate similar pieces from as many writers and artists as possible; the desire was to provide empathy and inspiration for anyone going through a similar experience of isolation and mental struggle.

Back in 5 Minutes is the first volume in a series of six.

Featuring work by Sadie Frost, Clint Catalyst, Alice Temple and Lucie Barat]]> 0 Clint Catalyst Sigrid N. 4 4.25 2010
author: Clint Catalyst
name: Sigrid N.
average rating: 4.25
book published: 2010
rating: 4
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]]> 12813565 302 Chuck Palahniuk 0393083527 Sigrid N. 4 brilliant, fiction

from Invisible Monsters Remix by Chuck Palahniuk ]]> 4.05 1999
author: Chuck Palahniuk
name: Sigrid N.
average rating: 4.05
book published: 1999
rating: 4
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When did the future...switch from being a promise to a threat?


from Invisible Monsters Remix by Chuck Palahniuk
]]> 10737650 The Marbled Swarm is Dennis Cooper’s most haunting work to date. In secret passageways, hidden rooms, and the troubled mind of our narrator, a mystery perpetually takes shape—and the most compelling clue to its final nature is “the marbled swarm” itself, a complex amalgam of language passed down from father to son.

Cooper ensnares the reader in a world of appearances, where the trappings of high art, old money, and haute cuisine obscure an unspeakable system of coercion and surrender. And as the narrator stalks an elusive truth, traveling from the French countryside to Paris and back again, the reader will be seduced by a voice only Dennis Cooper could create.]]> 208 Dennis Cooper 0061715638 Sigrid N. 0 to-read 3.47 2011
author: Dennis Cooper
name: Sigrid N.
average rating: 3.47
book published: 2011
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]]> 494952 144 Jennifer Blowdryer 1933149027 Sigrid N. 4 3.86 2005
author: Jennifer Blowdryer
name: Sigrid N.
average rating: 3.86
book published: 2005
rating: 4
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shelves: alternative-subculture, essays, nonfiction
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]]> 80272 220 Jean Cocteau 0720608007 Sigrid N. 0 to-read 3.78 1930
author: Jean Cocteau
name: Sigrid N.
average rating: 3.78
book published: 1930
rating: 0
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]]> 537066 158 Clint Catalyst 0916397653 Sigrid N. 5 4.14 2000
author: Clint Catalyst
name: Sigrid N.
average rating: 4.14
book published: 2000
rating: 5
read at: 2014/09/28
date added: 2014/09/28
shelves: addiction, alternative-subculture, autobiographical-prose, brilliant, drugs, experimental, goth, memoir, poetic-prose, poetry, poetry-prose-hybrid, queer-author, queer, transgressive-literature
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]]> 16057505
Daniel LeVesque accepted his cosmically assigned career of cosmetologist after attending Beauty School. He no longer participates in the world of salons. His writing appears in Punk Globe and numerous anthologies. He currently resides in Oakland, California. This is his first book.

Advance praise for Hairdresser on Fire:

"Down, dirty, funny, and glorious. Levesque has an authentic eye for
the cracks all around us, but never misses the light shining through
them. His voice is true punk spirit." - Beth Lisick, NY Times Bestselling author of "Everybody into the Pool" and the forthcoming "Yokohama Threeway" (City Lights/Sister Spit 2103)

"Levesque's tale mixes truth and absurdity until you don't know which wild way is up. Beating at the core of this disturbing, hilarious story is a great big clown's heart, suffusing the novel with sensitive realness. I love this story and this author." - Michelle Tea, author of Valencia, publisher at City Lights/Sister Spit]]> 192 Daniel Levesque 1933149736 Sigrid N. 4 3.98 2013
author: Daniel Levesque
name: Sigrid N.
average rating: 3.98
book published: 2013
rating: 4
read at: 2014/09/17
date added: 2014/09/17
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]]> 20948662 Some Wear Leather, Some Wear Lace is a visual and oral history of the first decade of the scene. Featuring interviews with both the performers and the audience to capture the community on and off stage, the book places personal snapshots alongside professional photography to reveal a unique range of fashions, bands, and scenes.

A book about the music, the individual, and the creativity of a worldwide community rather than theoretical definitions of a subculture, Some Wear Leather, Some Wear Lace considers a subject not often covered by academic books. Whether you were part of the scene or are just fascinated by different modes of expression, this book will transport you to another time and place.]]> 216 Andi Harriman 1783203528 Sigrid N. 5 4.29 2014
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name: Sigrid N.
average rating: 4.29
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rating: 5
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]]> 4556275 480 Mary Ellen Snodgrass 0816055289 Sigrid N. 0 to-read 2.92 2004
author: Mary Ellen Snodgrass
name: Sigrid N.
average rating: 2.92
book published: 2004
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]]> 21075233
In the decaying warehouse performance spaces and dimly lit nightclubs of San Francisco, a predator perfects his rituals of blood and torture, creating vast landscapes of nihilistic hedonism for jaded aesthetes. In the Tenderloin, in a haze of heroin and loss, horror novelist Zoë Starr tries to reassemble the shattered pieces of her life, gradually alienating everybody she has come to trust. Their love is unspoken, and together they will become their own Legend. A shared lust for blood begets a nightmare world of post-modern sacrifice, perversion, redemption and slow decay.

This is not about vampires and victims. This is about the apocalyptic measures we must take to prove our love in this day and age.

Some will call this horror. Some will call it romance for the hopelessly nihilistic. Some may call it transgressive fiction.

I call it In the Blood.]]> 136 Miranda Luna 0578010240 Sigrid N. 4 4.00 2009
author: Miranda Luna
name: Sigrid N.
average rating: 4.00
book published: 2009
rating: 4
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]]> 38502 Notes of a Dirty Old Man is a collection of articles written by Charles Bukowski for the underground, L.A.-based newspaper Open City, which operated from 1967 to 1969. Bukowski uses his own life as the basis for his series of articles, and characteristically leaves nothing out.]]> 204 Charles Bukowski Sigrid N. 4 3.97 1969
author: Charles Bukowski
name: Sigrid N.
average rating: 3.97
book published: 1969
rating: 4
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]]> 3355636 246 Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore 0872864685 Sigrid N. 0 to-read 3.79 2008
author: Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore
name: Sigrid N.
average rating: 3.79
book published: 2008
rating: 0
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]]> 19357753 67 Kris Kidd 1494317672 Sigrid N. 3 4.20 2013
author: Kris Kidd
name: Sigrid N.
average rating: 4.20
book published: 2013
rating: 3
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shelves: drugs, essays, memoir, nonfiction
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]]> 2044238 Freak Unique 288 Pete Burns 1844544389 Sigrid N. 0 to-read 3.63 2006
author: Pete Burns
name: Sigrid N.
average rating: 3.63
book published: 2006
rating: 0
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]]> 9673436 534 Brian Selznick Sigrid N. 0 to-read 4.22 2007
author: Brian Selznick
name: Sigrid N.
average rating: 4.22
book published: 2007
rating: 0
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]]> 10366989
Back in 5 Minutes is a collection of poetry, lyrics, short stories, excerpts of scripts and artwork from established and emerging talent. The 'expression of depression' series of anthologies arose from a journal and pad of art therapy pictures recorded during a stint in rehab. The idea was to collate similar pieces from as many writers and artists as possible; the desire was to provide empathy and inspiration for anyone going through a similar experience of isolation and mental struggle.

Back in 5 Minutes is the first volume in a series of six.

Featuring work by Sadie Frost, Clint Catalyst, Alice Temple and Lucie Barat

"Back in Five Minutes is a searingly honest and inspiring testament to the fact that all art, by its very existence, is life-affirming. The impulse to create is often, in the words of Leonard Cohen, the crack that lets the light in." ~ Jillian Lauren, Author of 'Some My Life in a Harem' (Plume, April 2010]]> 117 Clint Catalyst Sigrid N. 4 4.30 2010
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name: Sigrid N.
average rating: 4.30
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rating: 4
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]]> 11083220 The Decline of Western Civilization.

Here is a life of many crossed boundaries, from East L.A.'s musica ranchera to Hollywood's punk rock; from a violent male-dominated family to female-dominated transgressive rock bands. Alice's feminist sympathies can be understood by the name of her satiric all-girl early Goth band Castration Squad.

Violence Girl takes us from a violent upbringing to an aggressive punk sensibility; this time a difficult coming-of-age memoir culminates with a satisfying conclusion, complete with a happy marriage and children. Nearly a hundred excellent photographs energize the text in remarkable ways.

Alice Bag's work and influence can be seen this year in the traveling Smithsonian exhibition "American Sabor: Latinos in U.S. Popular Music."]]> 382 Alice Bag 1936239124 Sigrid N. 0 to-read 4.18 2011
author: Alice Bag
name: Sigrid N.
average rating: 4.18
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rating: 0
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]]> 932948 100 Sam D'Allesandro 0895943506 Sigrid N. 0 to-read 3.94 1989
author: Sam D'Allesandro
name: Sigrid N.
average rating: 3.94
book published: 1989
rating: 0
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]]> 13604959 350 Walt Cessna 1937131173 Sigrid N. 4 4.00 2012
author: Walt Cessna
name: Sigrid N.
average rating: 4.00
book published: 2012
rating: 4
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]]> 9802336
In Cold Spring Harbour, New York, the newly formed Eugenics Records Office is sending its agents to catalogue the infirm, the insane, and the criminal—with an eye to a cull, for the betterment of all.

Near Cracked Wheel, Montana, a terrible illness leaves Jason Thistledown an orphan, stranded in his dead mother’s cabin until the spring thaw shows him the true meaning of devastation—and the barest thread of hope.

At the edge of the utopian mill town of Eliada, Idaho, Doctor Andrew Waggoner faces a Klansman’s noose and glimpses wonder in the twisting face of the patient known only as Mister Juke.

And deep in a mountain lake overlooking that town, something stirs, and thinks, in its way: Things are looking up.

Eutopia follows Jason and Andrew as together and alone, they delve into the secrets of Eliada—industrialist Garrison Harper's attempt to incubate a perfect community on the edge of the dark woods and mountains of northern Idaho. What they find reveals the true, terrible cost of perfection—the cruelty of the surgeon's knife—the folly of the cull—and a monstrous pact with beings that use perfection as a weapon, and faith as a trap.]]> 320 David Nickle 1926851110 Sigrid N. 0 to-read 3.35 2011
author: David Nickle
name: Sigrid N.
average rating: 3.35
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]]> 13508913 Fuck You: A Magazine of the Arts, the editors have figured a way to rehone its countercultural and frictional stance with style and aplomb. A unique and provocative anthology of lesbian writing, guaranteed to soothe the soulful and savage the soulless.]]> 312 Eileen Myles 1570270570 Sigrid N. 0 to-read 3.83 1995
author: Eileen Myles
name: Sigrid N.
average rating: 3.83
book published: 1995
rating: 0
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]]> 1022880 Pipilotti Rist 3775720065 Sigrid N. 0 to-read 4.50 2007
author: Pipilotti Rist
name: Sigrid N.
average rating: 4.50
book published: 2007
rating: 0
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]]> 10813483
Upon publication of The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter , Carson McCullers, all of twenty-three, became a literary sensation. With its compassionate glimpses into its characters’ inner lives, her story gives voice to the rejected, the forgotten, and the mistreated. In The Member of the Wedding , McCullers tells the story of the inimitable twelve-year-old Frankie, who is utterly, hopelessly bored with life until she hears about her older brother’s upcoming marriage. It is a coming-of-age story that showcases McCullers at her most sensitive and enduring best.]]> 530 Carson McCullers 0547577540 Sigrid N. 5 4.16 2011
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name: Sigrid N.
average rating: 4.16
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]]> 75090 A Good Man Is Hard to Find is Flannery O'Connor's most famous and most discussed story. O'Connor herself singled it out by making it the title piece of her first collection and the story she most often chose for readings or talks to students. It is an unforgettable tale, both riveting and comic, of the confrontation of a family with violence and sudden death. More than anything else O'Connor ever wrote, this story mixes the comedy, violence, and religious concerns that characterize her fiction.

This casebook for the story includes an introduction by the editor, a chronology of the author's life, the authoritative text of the story itself, comments and letters by O'Connor about the story, critical essays, and a bibliography. The critical essays span more than twenty years of commentary and suggest several approaches to the story--formalistic, thematic, deconstructionist-- all within the grasp of the undergraduate, while the introduction also points interested students toward still other resources. Useful for both beginning and advanced students, this casebook provides an in-depth introduction to one of America's most gifted modern writers.]]> 180 Flannery O'Connor 0813519772 Sigrid N. 5 3.89 1949
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average rating: 3.89
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]]> 37380 359 Carson McCullers 0618084746 Sigrid N. 5 4.00 1940
author: Carson McCullers
name: Sigrid N.
average rating: 4.00
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rating: 5
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]]> 1275574 280 Kate Braverman 0449906566 Sigrid N. 5 4.11 1993
author: Kate Braverman
name: Sigrid N.
average rating: 4.11
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rating: 5
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]]> 2657 "Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird."

A lawyer's advice to his children as he defends the real mockingbird of Harper Lee's classic novel - a black man charged with the rape of a white girl. Through the young eyes of Scout and Jem Finch, Harper Lee explores with exuberant humour the irrationality of adult attitudes to race and class in the Deep South of the 1930s. The conscience of a town steeped in prejudice, violence and hypocrisy is pricked by the stamina of one man's struggle for justice. But the weight of history will only tolerate so much.

"To Kill A Mockingbird" became both an instant bestseller and a critical success when it was first published in 1960. It went on to win the Pulitzer Prize in 1961 and was later made into an Academy Award-winning film.]]> 323 Harper Lee 0060935464 Sigrid N. 5 4.25 1960
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name: Sigrid N.
average rating: 4.25
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]]> 17159513
I like Mira Gonzalez's 1st poetry collection. It was poignant, intellectually stimulating, funny, interesting to me. The carefulness and precision and control with which Mira describes intense, uncommon, painful, mysterious experiences in her life made me feel very close to another human being (Mira, I think) in a way that is rare for me and that caused me to feel calmer and less desperate/despairing about my life and, I think, to some degree, more inclined to consider and be affected by the perspectives/lives of other people. The words I keep thinking when I think of Mira's book are wise and compassionate. --Tao Lin, author of Shoplifting From American Apparel

Mira Gonzalez is doing her thing. I f*ck with these poems. I felt bad for her when she talked about how that dude said I'm gonna come on your stomach like 15-20 times and then didn't. --Victor 'Kool A.D.' Vazquez]]> 56 Mira González 0988839407 Sigrid N. 4 4.18 2013
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name: Sigrid N.
average rating: 4.18
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rating: 4
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]]> 18085335 An Untamed State & Bad Feminist
“The poems & prose pieces in this smart & complex collection illuminate the shape of a new, 21st century webcam feminism—one that questions its own ambitions, knows the shape of pornstar mouths & doubts the sanctity of individuality when pitted against the existential. Gabby writes with radical uncertainty about illusions of control, the limits of identity & what it means to still want to kiss another human amidst the screenshots. This is a book that invents its own female gaze & then, like a bad bitch, breaks the lens.”--Melissa Broder, author of Meat Heart
“Gabby Bess’s Alone with Other People orchestrates an impressive catalog of young human want with a uncompromising style. In the span between its 1st phrase The sex can be rough & its last sentence, Panic, the reader forward thru a virtual rolodex of self-inquisition shaped by boredom, horror, aspiration, fear for future, wonder, lust. There’s a lot of intense light coming off this book full of screens & suns & large black dots.”--Blake Butler, author of Sky Saw
“Don’t take me for crazy when I say that the verse “Hahaha, am I alone here?” is the one that best sums up Gabby’s incredible debut book, because it’s true. Thru each & every page that makes up Alone with Other People, the author manages to head out into the world with a sane, witty & protesting laugh. A laugh about the strength of woman, of youth, of poetry. When Gabby says hahaha, it also starts to unravel before our very eyes a series of texts that first & foremost find beauty in the mundane, followed by the universality of intimacy, & lastly (& most importantly): the sensation that with this book, we will never, ever feel lonely again.”--Luna Miguel, author of Bluebird & Other Tattoos
“Of-the-moment, brilliant & triumphantly sad, Illuminati Girl Gang leader Gabby Bess’s debut Alone with Other People is a post-feminist, hyper selfconscious teen swansong of the Internet age. The line between girl body & Macbook is collapsed in these vignettes that riff from blog posts, text messages & tumblr memes, & what emerges is a “modern tragic figure who would sacrifice herself for whatever.”--Kate Durbin, author of E! Entertainment
“Alone with Other People deftly deals with relationships in a highly mediated age–one that twists our perceptions of self & others. Gabby shows us how we can be simultaneously complicit in this culture but still have the desire to fight against it.”
--Ann Hirsch, performance artist]]> 108 Gabby Bess 1937865177 Sigrid N. 4 3.98 2013
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]]> 659139 205 Matty Lee 0977158225 Sigrid N. 5 3.85 2006
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name: Sigrid N.
average rating: 3.85
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rating: 5
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]]> 52593
"Throw on the switch, plug into the mediating machine, the flesh-object writes back, becomes subject, suspect, the gaze cut-up and fed back into vibrating loops of unobtainable desire."—David Buuck]]> 67 Dodie Bellamy 0927920093 Sigrid N. 4 4.06 2001
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name: Sigrid N.
average rating: 4.06
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rating: 4
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]]> 777392 115 Dodie Bellamy 1883689163 Sigrid N. 5 4.19 1994
author: Dodie Bellamy
name: Sigrid N.
average rating: 4.19
book published: 1994
rating: 5
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]]> 3842339 30 Dodie Bellamy Sigrid N. 0 to-read 4.60 2008
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]]> 18369195 Cunt Norton, the sequel to her unforgettable Cunt Ups, Dodie Bellamy “cunts” The Norton Anthology of Poetry (1975 edition), setting her text-ravenous cut-ups loose to devour the canonical voices of English literature. The texts that emerge from this sexual-linguistic encounter are monstrous, beautiful, unashamed: 33 erotic love poems (“the greatest fuck poem in the English language,” according to Ariana Reines) that lust after the very aesthetic they resist. “These patriarchal voices that threatened to erase me—of course I love them as well,” Bellamy writes. Even as Cunt Norton dismembers the history of English poetry, “cunting” Chaucer and Shakespeare, Emerson and Lowell, it simultaneously allows new sexual to arise and fill in the gaps, transforming the secret into the explicit, the classically beautiful into the wonderfully grotesque. Bellamy’s cunted texts breathe life into literary “masters” with joy, honesty, hilarity, and insatiable passion.]]> 75 Dodie Bellamy Sigrid N. 4 poetry, experimental 4.28 2013
author: Dodie Bellamy
name: Sigrid N.
average rating: 4.28
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rating: 4
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]]> 713692 109 Pleasant Gehman 0962701394 Sigrid N. 0 to-read 4.18 1995
author: Pleasant Gehman
name: Sigrid N.
average rating: 4.18
book published: 1995
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]]> 7954894
Jeanann Verlee's award-winning debut collection is a series of narratives, prayers, and conjurings which address gender, sex, race, poverty, heartbreak, and survival with such stark intimacy, you will find yourself living inside. These poems cannot possibly be about you, yet they are. They cross boundaries and reclaim hope. They are as the opening poem suggests, nothing short of communion.


Praise


“Racing Hummingbirds is a masterful first collection... They are medicine words.”

- The Legendary


“It's poetry with its teeth bared...completely and unapologetically naked.”

- PANK Magazine


“...a roller coaster of imagistic magic. Form, language, allusion, and voice interact, collide, shape-shift, and duel...throughout an utterly arresting mosaic.”

- Danse Macabre


“Fierce and formidable, Jeanann Verlee is poised to make an indelible mark - much like a razor slashing silk - on what's become a comfortably placid poetic landscape.”

- Patricia Smith, author of Blood Dazzler and Teahouse of the Almighty


“...as visceral and searing as it is compassionate and forgiving.

- Small Press Reviews”


“...one of the most powerful collections I've ever read.”

- Roxane Gay, HTML Giant


Accolades


Recipient of the Independent Publisher Book Award Silver Medal in Poetry]]> 112 Jeanann Verlee 0984251553 Sigrid N. 4 4.30 2010
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]]> 340607 144 Dennis Cooper 0802134572 Sigrid N. 4 3.81 1995
author: Dennis Cooper
name: Sigrid N.
average rating: 3.81
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]]> 843891 88 Kate Braverman 0060104392 Sigrid N. 4 4.04 1980
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]]> 1923043 Self-published chapbook 64 Emanuel Xavier Sigrid N. 3 3.96 1997
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]]> 23942 Queer is a love story – the account of William Lee’s painfully circular seduction of Eugene Allerton in Mexico City, and the romantic agonies he suffers. In his introduction Burroughs discusses frankly and courageously the shattering event that happened after the occurrences described in Queer, and how this event has haunted his life and affected his work.]]> 160 William S. Burroughs 0330300164 Sigrid N. 4 3.55 1985
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]]> 16006608
Using an unrestrained associative style to move kaleidoscopically between past, present, and future, Sycamore conjures the untidy push and pull of memory, exposing the tensions between idealism and critical engagement, trauma and self-actualization, inspiration and loss. Part memoir, part social history, and part elegy, The End of San Francisco explores and explodes the dream of a radical queer community and the mythical city that was supposed to nurture it.]]> 186 Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore 087286572X Sigrid N. 5 3.97 2013
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]]> 432676 256 Kevin Bentley 1555836569 Sigrid N. 4 to-read 3.90 2001
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]]> 51589 Period earned its author the accolades “[a] disquieting genius” by Vanity Fair and praise for his “elegant prose and literary lawlessness” by The New York Times. The culmination of Cooper’s explorations into sex and death, youth culture, and the search for the ineffable object of desire, Period is a mesmerizing final statement to the five-book cycle it completes. Cooper has taken his familiar themes – strangely irresistible and interchangeable young men, passion that crosses into murder, the lure of drugs, the culpability of authorship, and the inexact, haunting communication of feeling – and melded them into a novel of flawless form and immense power. Set in a spare, smoke-and-mirror-filled world of secret Web sites, Goth bands, Satanism, pornography, and outsider art, Period is a literary disappearing act as mysterious as it is logical. Obsessive, beautiful, and darkly comic, Period is a crowning achievement from one of America’s finest writers.]]> 109 Dennis Cooper 0802137830 Sigrid N. 4 3.86 2000
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]]> 597615 95 Thomas Avena 0965141705 Sigrid N. 4 4.45 1996
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]]> 1859814 256 Craig Curtis 1555834795 Sigrid N. 4 3.41 2000
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]]> 1217493 160 Bambi Lake 0916397424 Sigrid N. 4 4.26 1996
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]]> 215461
"Leave it to Felice Picano to add a walloping dose of melodrama and intrigue to a tale already redrawing genre boundaries...What Picano does is take an academic mystery (subject matter that might have proved tedious or solipsistic in lesser hands) and morphs it into something new--a page-turning, often campy, occasionally serious critique of academia and historical truth, literary celebrity, and the imminent future of America."- Philadelphia Tribune

Felice Picano is the author of 19 books including the best-selling novels Like People In History, Looking Glass Lives, The Lure and Eyes as well as the literary memoirs Ambidextrous, Men Who Loved Me, and A House On the Ocean, A House On the Bay. He is also the author with Dr. Charles Silverstein of The New Joy of Gay Sex. A native of New York, Felice Picano now lives in Los Angeles.]]> 423 Felice Picano 1555835929 Sigrid N. 4 3.59 1999
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]]> 51594 249 Dennis Cooper Sigrid N. 4 3.93 1994
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]]> 99602
His raw, incantatory, stream-of-consciousness poems confront issues of race, desire, and loss with a compelling urgency that reflects his work as a performance artist, speaking directly to an audience. Throughout this collection, Chin showcases his ability to convey thought-provoking viewpoints on a variety of controversial subjects. As R. Zamora Linmark of Rolling the R's says, "He plugs the stage microphone into the page and lyrically blasts the heart of our fears, rage, and import-export nightmarish dreams".]]> 128 Justin Chin 0916397475 Sigrid N. 4 to-read 3.98 1997
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]]> 1398882 160 Thea Hillman 091639770X Sigrid N. 5 4.16 2001
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]]> 158364 176 Dennis Cooper 0802133673 Sigrid N. 4 3.76 1993
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]]> 51595 176 Dennis Cooper 0802135803 Sigrid N. 4 4.04 1997
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]]> 50275 Last Exit to Brooklyn, and this Penguin Modern Classics edition includes an introduction by Irvine Welsh, author of Trainspotting.

Described by various reviewers as hellish and obscene, Last Exit to Brooklyn tells the stories of New Yorkers who at every turn confront the worst excesses in human nature. Yet there are moments of exquisite tenderness in these troubled lives. Georgette, the transvestite who falls in love with a callous hoodlum; Tralala, the conniving prostitute who plumbs the depths of sexual degradation; and Harry, the strike leader who hides his true desires behind a boorish masculinity, are unforgettable creations. Last Exit to Brooklyn was banned by British courts in 1967, a decision that was reversed the following year with the help of a number of writers and critics including Anthony Burgess and Frank Kermode.

Hubert Selby, Jr. (1928-2004) was born in Brooklyn, New York. At the age of 15, he dropped out of school and went to sea with the merchant marines. While at sea he was diagnosed with lung disease. With no other way to make a living, he decided to try writing: 'I knew the alphabet. Maybe I could be a writer.' In 1964 he completed his first book, Last Exit to Brooklyn, which has since become a cult classic. In 1966, it was the subject of an obscenity trial in the UK. His other books include The Room, The Demon, Requiem for a Dream, The Willow Tree and Waiting Period. In 2000, Requiem for a Dream was adapted into a film starring Jared Leto and Ellen Burstyn, and directed by Darren Aronofsky.

'Last Exit to Brooklyn will explode like a rusty hellish bombshell over America, and still be eagerly read in 100 years'
Allen Ginsberg

'An urgent tickertape from hell'
Spectator]]> 290 Hubert Selby Jr. 0747549923 Sigrid N. 5 3.94 1964
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]]> 138215 Nobody Passes is a collection of essays that confronts and challenges the very notion of belonging. By examining the perilous intersections of identity, categorization, and community, contributors challenge societal mores and countercultural norms. Nobody Passes explores and critiques the various systems of power seen (or not seen) in the act of “passing.” In a pass-fail situation, standards for acceptance may vary, but somebody always gets trampled on. This anthology seeks to eliminate the pressure to pass and thereby unearth the delicious and devastating opportunities for transformation that might create.

Mattilda, aka Matt Bernstein Sycamore, has a history of editing anthologies based on brazen nonconformity and gender defiance. Mattilda sets out to ask the question, “What lies are people forced to tell in order to gain acceptance as 'real'.” The answers are as varied as the life experiences of the writers who tackle this urgent and essential topic.]]> 354 Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore 1580051847 Sigrid N. 0 to-read 4.00 2006
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]]> 53003 216 Jean Genet 1596541369 Sigrid N. 4 4.05 1943
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]]> 15054 Written on the Body is a secret code only visible in certain lights: the accumulation of a lifetime gather there. In places the palimpsest is so heavily worked that the letters feel like braille. I like to keep my body rolled away from prying eyes, never unfold too much, tell the whole story. I didn't know that Louise would have reading hands. She has translated me into her own book.]]> 190 Jeanette Winterson 0679744479 Sigrid N. 4 4.12 1992
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]]> 4137 272 David Sedaris 0349113912 Sigrid N. 4 4.01 2000
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]]> 38462 here.

Baldwin's haunting and controversial second novel is his most sustained treatment of sexuality, and a classic of gay literature. In a 1950s Paris swarming with expatriates and characterized by dangerous liaisons and hidden violence, an American finds himself unable to repress his impulses, despite his determination to live the conventional life he envisions for himself. After meeting and proposing to a young woman, he falls into a lengthy affair with an Italian bartender and is confounded and tortured by his sexual identity as he oscillates between the two.

Examining the mystery of love and passion in an intensely imagined narrative, Baldwin creates a moving and complex story of death and desire that is revelatory in its insight.]]> 159 James Baldwin Sigrid N. 4 4.31 1956
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]]> 23930 The Wild Boys is a futuristic tale of global warfare in which a guerrilla gang of boys dedicated to freedom battles the organized armies of repressive police states. Making full use of his inimitable humor, wild imagination, and style, Burroughs creates a world that is as terrifying as it is fascinating.]]> 193 William S. Burroughs 0802133312 Sigrid N. 4 3.56 1971
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]]> 886005 This edition has an alt Cover>> Sexing the Cherry

Set in the 17th century, Sexing the Cherry celebrates the power of the imagination as it playfully juggles with our perception of history and reality. It is a story about love and sex; lies and truths; and twelve dancing princesses who lived happily ever after, but not with their husbands.]]> 144 Jeanette Winterson Sigrid N. 3 3.69 1989
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rating: 3
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]]> 15044 241 Jeanette Winterson 0679762701 Sigrid N. 3 3.88 1994
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]]> 232431 Dancer from the Dance is truthful, provocative, outrageous fiction told in a voice as close to laughter as to tears.]]> 250 Andrew Holleran 0060937068 Sigrid N. 4 3.99 1978
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]]> 7455932
At eighteen, Jillian Lauren was an NYU theater school dropout with a tip about an upcoming audition. The "casting director" told her that a rich businessman in Singapore would pay pretty American girls $20,000 if they stayed for two weeks to spice up his parties. Soon, Jillian was on a plane to Borneo, where she would spend the next eighteen months in the harem of Prince Jefri Bolkiah, youngest brother of the Sultan of Brunei, leaving behind her gritty East Village apartment for a palace with rugs laced with gold and trading her band of artist friends for a coterie of backstabbing beauties.

More than just a sexy read set in an exotic land, Some Girls is also the story of how a rebellious teen found herself-and the courage to meet her birth mother and eventually adopt a baby boy.]]> 336 Jillian Lauren 0452296315 Sigrid N. 4 nonfiction, favorites, memoir 3.34 2010
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]]> 10367220
Volume 1, Issue 11 of The Battered Suitcase, a literary journal of intelligent and imaginative prose, poetry and art exploring the human experience.

Fiction by Steve Danzis, Liz Hall, Robert Aquino Dollesin, Carter Meland, Amy Corbin, G. K. Wuori, Jennifer Lynn Alessi, Gary Moshimer, Whitney Porter, Polly Tuckett and Stephen Paul Watson

Art by Melissa Salzman, Lino Mocerino and Theodosius Ng

Interview with Clint Catalyst

Non-Fiction by Stephanie Reese Masson

Poetry by Clint Catalyst, Noor Brara, J.D. Di Lella, Melissa Hansen, Heather Cadenhead, John Grey, Suzanne Savickas, The Satire Guy, Jonathan Jay Taylor, James H Duncan and Brad Johnson

Edited by Fawn Neun, Maggie Ward, Alice Bigelow, Deb Perry and Apythia Morges.





]]> 114 Fawn Neun Sigrid N. 4 4.00 2009
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]]> 257579 512 Simon Dwyer 1871592224 Sigrid N. 4 4.31 1996
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]]> 53126 300 Derek Jarman 0879518448 Sigrid N. 0 to-read 4.26 1996
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]]> 1141368
- Jeffery Ingram, Newport P.L., Ore.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.]]> 144 Derek Jarman 0879515384 Sigrid N. 0 to-read 4.37 1992
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]]> 3439808 96 Derek Jarman 3865603971 Sigrid N. 0 to-read 4.22 2008
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]]> 195041 213 William Pencak 0786414308 Sigrid N. 0 to-read 3.29 2002
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]]> 9592 Librarian note: Alternate cover edition for this ISBN can be found here.

Mother Night is a daring challenge to our moral sense. American Howard W. Campbell, Jr., a spy during World War II, is now on trial in Israel as a Nazi war criminal. But is he really guilty? In this brilliant book rife with true gallows humor, Vonnegut turns black and white into a chilling shade of gray with a verdict that will haunt us all.]]> 282 Kurt Vonnegut Jr. 0385334141 Sigrid N. 0 to-read 4.23 1961
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]]> 1243755
As high school graduation nears, Desiree’s weirdness turns from charming to alarming. Plagued by increasingly bizarre thoughts and urges, Desiree convinces herself she’s schizophrenic, despite assurance otherwise. In college, she finds Rae, an ex-carnie trannyboi, who becomes the June Carter to her Johnny Cash. With Rae’s help, Desiree answers the riddle of her insanity and names her disease.

Combining the spark of Michelle Tea, the comic angst of Augusten Burroughs, and the warmth of Sandra Cisneros, Mexican American author Myriam Gurba has created a territory all her own. Dahlia Season not only contains the title novella, but also several of Gurba’s acclaimed stories.

Myriam Gurba is a high school teacher who lives in Long Beach, California, home of Snoop Dogg and the Queen Mary. She graduated from UC Berkeley, and her writing has appeared in anthologies like The Best American Erotica (St. Martin’s Press), Bottom’s Up (Soft Skull Press), Secrets and Confidences (Seal Press), and Tough Girls (Black Books).]]> 224 Myriam Gurba 1933149167 Sigrid N. 4 3.80 2007
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]]> 17228474 46 Myriam Gurba Sigrid N. 0 to-read 4.17 2013
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]]> 13591832 Margaret Cho

"Sister Spit is like the underground railroad for burgeoning queer writers. Not only in the van, but in the audiences trapped in the hinterlands of America and looking to escape. Sister Spit saves lives."—Justin Vivian Bond, author of TANGO: My Childhood, Backwards and in High Heels

A collection of writing and artwork from the irreverent, flagrantly queer, hilariously feminist, tough-talking, genre-busting ruffians who have toured with the legendary Sister Spit. Co-founded in 1997 by award-winning writer Michelle Tea, Sister Spit is an underground cultural institution, a gender-bending writers' cabaret that brings a changing roster of both emerging writers and some of the most important queer and counterculture artists of the day to universities, art galleries, community spaces, and other venues across the country and worldwide.

Sister Spit: Writing, Rants and Reminiscence from the Road captures the provocative, politicized, and risk-taking elements that characterize the Sister Spit aesthetic, stamping the raw energy and signature style of the live show onto the page. Bratty poets and failed priestesses, punk angst and tough love, too much to drink and tattooed timelines—this anthology captures it all in a collection of poetry, personal narrative, fiction, and artwork. Featuring a who's who of queer and queer-centric writers and artists, the collection functions as a travelog, a historical document, and a yearbook from irreverent graduates of the school of hard knocks.

Includes contributions by Eileen Myles, Beth Lisick, Michelle Tea, MariNaomi, Cristy Road, Ali Liebegott, Blake Nelson, Lenelle Moise, and many more!
]]> 225 Michelle Tea 0872865665 Sigrid N. 5 3.99 2012
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]]> 13376363 37 Warsan Shire 1905233299 Sigrid N. 4 4.23 2011
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]]> 374615 120 Cookie Mueller 0937815365 Sigrid N. 5 4.37 1990
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]]> 141495 480 Danny Sugerman 0316773549 Sigrid N. 0 to-read 4.27 1989
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]]> 12651419
Kate Bornstein—gender theorist, performance artist, author—is set to change lives with her compelling memoir. Wickedly funny and disarmingly honest, this is Bornstein's most intimate book yet, encompassing her early childhood and adolescence, college at Brown, a life in the theater, three marriages and fatherhood, the Scientology hierarchy, transsexual life, LGBTQ politics, and life on the road as a sought-after speaker.]]> 258 Kate Bornstein 0807001651 Sigrid N. 0 to-read 3.94 2012
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]]> 16129217
Could Sophie Swankowski be that girl? With her tangled hair and grubby clothes, her weird habits and her visions of a filthy, swearing mermaid who comes to her when she’s unconscious, Sophie could be the one to uncover the power flowing beneath Chelsea’s potholed streets and sludge-filled rivers, and the one to fight the evil that flows there, too. Sophie might discover her destiny, and maybe even in time to save them all.]]> 331 Michelle Tea 1938073363 Sigrid N. 0 to-read 3.58 2013
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]]> 13488147 Ramsey Dukes Sigrid N. 0 to-read 4.52
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]]> 2068907 96 Sparrow 13 Laughingwand 0916397432 Sigrid N. 5 4.56 1996
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]]> 8869362 Lambda Literary Review

From its beginning—“My English professor’s ass was so beautiful.”—to its end—“You can actually learn to have grace. And that’s heaven.”—poet, essayist and performer Eileen Myles’ chronicle transmits an energy and vividness that will not soon leave its readers. Her story of a young female writer, discovering both her sexuality and her own creative drive in the meditative and raucous environment that was New York City in its punk and indie heyday, is engrossing, poignant, and funny. This is a voice from the underground that redefines the meaning of the word.]]> 256 Eileen Myles 1935928066 Sigrid N. 5 3.93 2008
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]]> 310358 224 Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore 0971084637 Sigrid N. 4 3.77 2005
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]]> 310357 340 Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore 1932360565 Sigrid N. 4 4.05 2004
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]]> 109173 331 Michelle Tea 1580050735 Sigrid N. 4 3.90 2002
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]]> 46640 Rent Girl is the illustrated saga of one broke baby dyke trying to make a buck in the surreal world of the sex industry. Avoiding the stereotypes of prostitute as victim or superhero, Tea instead explores the complicated occupation in all its nuances - absurd, somber, hilarious, disturbing. When Michelle, a young Boston baby dyke, needs money, her adventuresome girlfriend suggests taking up a secretive career in the world of escort services. Her misadventures through her years in the sex trade are at times, humorous, tantalizing, and heartbreaking. Constantly struggling between the worlds of poverty and prostitution, Michelle must make the eventual decision to stay in the business with its financial freedoms or quit for spiritual serenity.]]> 242 Michelle Tea 0867196203 Sigrid N. 4 3.80 2004
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]]> 13435894 368 Christiane V. Felscherinow 1936976226 Sigrid N. 5 4.43 1978
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]]> 13552396 428 Fray Baroque Sigrid N. 0 to-read 4.15 2011
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]]> 3384 'What did Karen see that December night? What pictures of tomorrow could so disturb her that she would flee into a refuge of bottomless sleep? Why would she leave me?'

It's 15th December, 1979, and Richard's girlfriend Karen has entered a deep coma. She only took a couple of valium washed down with a cocktail, but now she's locked away in suspended animation, oblivious to the passage of time. What if she were to wake up decades later - a 17-year-old girl in a distant future, a future where the world has gone dark?]]> 288 Douglas Coupland 0060987324 Sigrid N. 4 3.63 1998
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]]> 516062 239 V. Vale 0940642247 Sigrid N. 5 4.15 1991
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]]> 24861 193 Hermann Hesse Sigrid N. 5 4.18 1919
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These are the stories of a young boy on the run, away from his past, hellbent towards an unknown future. Connected, they form a sometimes harrowing, sometimes bleakly funny, and often tender portrait of a complicated life. Like a modern-day Voltaire, LeRoy bounces his characters from adventure to adventure, each of them unyielding in the belief that the best of all possible worlds lies just around the next corner. Fresh, raw, and absolutely unforgettable, The Heart is Deceitful Above All Things has further established the acclaimed author of Sarah as one of the most compelling voices in contemporary fiction.]]> 247 J.T. LeRoy 1582342113 Sigrid N. 1 3.68 2001
author: J.T. LeRoy
name: Sigrid N.
average rating: 3.68
book published: 2001
rating: 1
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"Writing the book, I saw my old dope dealer and bought $1,500 worth of pure heroin—Brown Gold—and started shooting up 10 times a day to get the feel of the book. Well, I did, all right. I ended up in Glen Cove General, almost dead. In truth, you make a deal with the Devil. He takes away your pain, but he owns you. You live for the next fix. After a while, it's totally physical; your body has to have it. But I'm off it for good." —Linda Glovach]]> 176 Linda Glovach 006205161X Sigrid N. 3 addiction, drugs, young-adult 3.81 1998
author: Linda Glovach
name: Sigrid N.
average rating: 3.81
book published: 1998
rating: 3
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date added: 2012/11/04
shelves: addiction, drugs, young-adult
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