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10 best books like Memories That Smell Like Gasoline (David Wojnarowicz): Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl, SCUM Manifesto, How We Fight For Our Lives, Night Sky with Exit Wounds, The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone, Autobiography of Red, Bluets, Fire in the Belly: The Life and Times of David Wojnarowicz, Histoire de la violence, L'Arabe du futur 2 : Une jeunesse au Moyen-Orient, 1984-1985

Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl
AuthorAndrea Lawlor
ISBN0986086991
It’s 1993 and Paul Polydoris tends bar at the only gay club in a university town thrumming with politics and partying. He studies queer theory, has a dyke best friend, makes zines, and is a flâneur with a rich dating life. But Paul’s also got a secret: he’s a shapeshifter. Oscillating wildly from...
SCUM Manifesto
AuthorValerie Solanas
ISBN1859845533
SCUM Manifesto was considered one of the most outrageous, violent and certifiably crazy tracts when it first appeared in 1968. Valerie Solanas, the woman who shot Andy Warhol, self-published this work just before her rampage against the king of Pop Art made her a household name and resulted in her confinement...
How We Fight For Our Lives
AuthorSaeed Jones
ISBN1501132733
From award-winning poet Saeed Jones, How We Fight for Our Lives is a stunning coming-of-age memoir written at the crossroads of sex, race, and power.

“People don’t just happen,” writes Saeed Jones. “We sacrifice former versions of ourselves. We sacrifice the people who dared to...
Night Sky with Exit Wounds
AuthorOcean Vuong
The most beautiful part of your body
is where it's headed, & remember
loneliness is still time spent
with the world.

To read Ocean Vuong's Night Sky with Exit Wounds is to be dazzled by gorgeous lyricism. I picked this up as part of my exploration of contemporary poetry I have...
The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone
AuthorOlivia Laing
ISBN1250039576
What does it mean to be lonely? How do we live, if we're not intimately engaged with another human being? How do we connect with other people? Does technology draw us closer together or trap us behind screens?

When Olivia Laing moved to New York City in her mid-thirties, she found herself inhabiting...
Autobiography of Red
AuthorAnne Carson
The award-winning poet Anne Carson reinvents a genre in Autobiography of Red, a stunning work that is both a novel and a poem, both an unconventional re-creation of an ancient Greek myth and a wholly original coming-of-age story set in the present.

Geryon, a young boy who is also a winged red...
Bluets
AuthorMaggie Nelson
ISBN1933517409
Suppose I were to begin by saying that I had fallen in love with a color...

A lyrical, philosophical, and often explicit exploration of personal suffering and the limitations of vision and love, as refracted through the color blue. With Bluets, Maggie Nelson has entered the pantheon of brilliant...
Fire in the Belly: The Life and Times of David Wojnarowicz
AuthorCynthia Carr
ISBN1596915331
David Wojnarowicz was an abused child, a teen runaway who barely finished high school, but he emerged as one of the most important voices of his generation. He found his tribe in New York's East Village, a neighborhood noted in the 1970s and '80s for drugs, blight, and a burgeoning art scene. His creativity...
Histoire de la violence
AuthorÉdouard Louis
ISBN2021177785
J’ai rencontré Reda un soir de Noël. Je rentrais chez moi après un repas avec des amis, vers quatre heures du matin. Il m’a abordé dans la rue et j’ai fini par lui proposer de monter dans mon studio. Ensuite, il m’a raconté l’histoire de son enfance et celle de l’arrivée en France de son...
L'Arabe du futur 2 : Une jeunesse au Moyen-Orient, 1984-1985
AuthorRiad Sattouf
ISBN2370730544
Né d’un père syrien et d’une mère bretonne, Riad Sattouf raconte dans L’Arabe du futur sa jeunesse au Moyen-Orient.

Dans le premier tome (1978-1984), le petit Riad était ballotté entre la Libye, la Bretagne et la Syrie.

Dans ce second tome, qui couvre la première année...
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