Rat Bohemia
7 best books like Rat Bohemia (Sarah Schulman): The Stonewall Reader: Edited by The New York Public Library, Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl, Little Fish, Nightwood, Against Memoir: Complaints, Confessions & Criticisms, Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good, Real Queer America: LGBT Stories from Red States
The Stonewall Reader: Edited by The New York Public Library
| Author | New York Public Library |
For the fiftieth anniversary of the Stonewall uprising, an anthology chronicling the tumultuous fight for LGBTQ rights in the 1960s and the activists who spearheaded it, with a foreword by Edmund White.
June 28, 2019 marks the fiftieth anniversary of the Stonewall uprising, which is considered...
Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl
| Author | Andrea Lawlor |
| ISBN | 0986086991 |
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...
| Author | Casey Plett |
| ISBN | 1551527200 |
WINNER, Lambda Literary Award; Firecracker Award for Fiction; $60,000 Amazon Canada First Novel Award
In this extraordinary debut novel by the author of the Lambda Literary Award-winning story collection A Safe Girl to Love, Wendy Reimer is a thirty-year-old trans woman who comes across...
| Author | Djuna Barnes |
| ISBN | 0811216713 |
Nightwood, Djuna Barnes' strange and sinuous tour de force, "belongs to that small class of books that somehow reflect a time or an epoch" (TLS). That time is the period between the two World Wars, and Barnes' novel unfolds in the decadent shadows of Europe's great cities, Paris, Berlin, and Vienna—a...
Against Memoir: Complaints, Confessions & Criticisms
It's 5am. I am jittery from all the coffee I've fed into my system in an attempt to stave off sleep and instead spend my moonlit hours on the more worthwhile pursuit of reading this book. I am forever changed.
This collection of personal anecdotes, journalistic pieces, wisdoms shared, and talks...
Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good
| Author | Adrienne Maree Brown |
How do we make social justice the most pleasurable human experience? How can we awaken within ourselves desires that make it impossible to settle for anything less than a fulfilling life? Editor adrienne maree brown finds the answer in something she calls “pleasure activism,” a politics of healing...
Real Queer America: LGBT Stories from Red States
A transgender reporter's narrative tour through the surprisingly vibrant queer communities sprouting up in red states, offering a vision of a stronger, more humane America.
Ten years ago, Samantha Allen was a suit-and-tie-wearing Mormon missionary. Now she's a senior Daily Beast reporter...
