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Things I Read That I Love #91: A Maniacal Power Fantasy That Panders To Female Anger and Fear

Topics include Claire Danes, missionary/colonialist collectors, the death of Kendrick Johnson in Georgia, the Lusty Lady, Gone Girl, Thomas Pynchon, growing up Chinese in America and more!

Riese —

Sep 6, 2013

kiese laymon

lez liberty lit

literature

Lez Liberty Lit #26: Summertime, and The Reading is Easy

The books of Orange is the New Black, diversity in kids’ books, heroic librarians, subtle ways of convincing those around you to read your favorite childhood novels and more.

Ryan Yates —

Aug 8, 2013

dorothy allison

Eileen Myles

book lists

My Top 8 Favorite Authors: Riese, Editor-in-Chief

In which all books mentioned herein were published after 1975 and almost everybody is both female and still alive.

Riese —

Dec 4, 2012