Suicide Blonde
10 best books like Suicide Blonde (Darcey Steinke): Cottonmouth Kisses, Thin Skin, The Good Brother, The Male Cross-Dresser Support Group, Canto for a Gypsy, Whores on the Hill, The Torn Skirt, Jackie Brown, Downers Grove, Heaven's Bride: The Unprintable Life of Ida C. Craddock, American Mystic, Scholar, Sexologist, Martyr, and Madwoman
| Author | Clint Catalyst |
| ISBN | 0916397653 |
With wicked sarcasm and brilliant agility, Catalyst shreds the surface of all his many subjects—gay relationships, backwater adolescence, and spiraling addiction—and ignites a bonfire of personal honesty. Whether he's writing about a chance sexual encounter at a Goth club or revealing the...
| Author | Emma Forrest |
| ISBN | 0743464818 |
From the author dubbed "a literary Lolita" by Vanity Fair comes the perfect portrait of a young actress caught in a downward spiral of self-destruction. Edgy and funny at the same time, Thin Skin provides a realistic glimpse into the dark and inviting world of fame from the writer who penned Namedropper...
| Author | Chris Offutt |
| ISBN | 0684846195 |
Virgil Caudill has never gone looking for trouble, but this time he's got no choice -- his hell-raising brother Boyd has been murdered. Everyone knows who did it, and in the hills of Kentucky, tradition won't let a murder go unavenged. No matter which way he chooses, Virgil will lose.
The Good...
The Male Cross-Dresser Support Group
| Author | Tama Janowitz |
| ISBN | 0671871501 |
She's Pamela Trowel, a New Yorker, single and singular: holed up in her swampy basement apartment when she isn't peddling guns and ammo ads for "Hunter's World" magazine. Pamela attracts Manhattan's wrongest kind of men: the cinematographer-exhibitionist Alby; her masochistic, creepy, boss-of-all-bosses...
| Author | Martin Cruz Smith |
| ISBN | 0345306155 |
Another hidden gem from Smith, his first series, two books long. The protagonist lives on the edge of Roman culture in New York City and consults with/assists the police with special problems. Here, the sacred Hungarian crown of St. Stephen is to be displayed in a church before it is returned to the Communist...
| Author | Colleen Curran |
| ISBN | 1400079950 |
The girls of Sacred Heart Holy Angels eye the good dancers at the all-ages club Metropolis. They waste afternoons at the mall, check out parties on the lake, burn through candid, casual sex.
Everybody calls them the Whores on the Hill, but they don't care.
It is the mid-'80s and they...
| Author | Rebecca Godfrey |
| ISBN | 0060094850 |
“The Torn Skirt is a hot book, a thrilling romance of teen rage and longing -- like S.E. Hinton’s The Outsiders, except about girls.” — Mary Gaitskill, author of Two Girls, Fat and Thin
At Mt. Douglas (a.k.a. Mt. Drug) High, all the girls have feathered hair, and the sweet scent of...
| Author | Quentin Tarantino |
| ISBN | 0786883499 |
JACKIE BROWN (2 hours 34 minutes)
Jackie Brown is in her mid-forties, but looks like she's in her thirties. She's a "knockout."
Tarantino continues to use the phrase, "beeline" on 146.
Variations of the n-word are used 29 times, mostly by Ordell. Jackie uses it sparingly,...
| Author | Michael Hornburg |
| ISBN | 0802137938 |
Downers Grove is the haunting and tender story of Chrissie Swanson, a paranoid high school senior for whom graduating has become a matter of life or death. She's an unusual girl in an ordinary town. Her mother's sex life is overshadowing her own; her brother is aboard his own private Enterprise, slipping...
Heaven's Bride: The Unprintable Life of Ida C. Craddock, American Mystic, Scholar, Sexologist, Martyr, and Madwoman
| Author | Leigh Eric Schmidt |
| ISBN | 0465002986 |
The nineteenth-century eccentric Ida C. Craddock was by turns a secular freethinker, a religious visionary, a civil-liberties advocate, and a resolute defender of belly-dancing. Arrested and tried repeatedly on obscenity charges, she was deemed a danger to public morality for her candor about...
Arthur and the Lost Diary
| Author | Marc Brown |
| ISBN | 0316115371 |
Summary: This book is about Sue Ellen and her diary. While Sue Ellen was in the library, she lost her library and was fearful that somebody took it. All of her friends find out that the diary is gone and wonder what is so private about it. They instantly think it is because Sue Ellen wrote about them so they...
The Bunny Years: The Surprising Inside Story of the Playboy Clubs: The Women Who Worked as Bunnies and Where They Are Now
| Author | Kathryn Leigh Scott |
| ISBN | 0938817175 |
Nostalgic easy, name dropping read. It was a fair and accurate detailing from the mouths of the women who lived and/or worked within Playboy clubs as Playboy Bunnies. Most of the stories are from the original groups in New York and Chicago during the mid-1960's. The costuming methods, rules and training...
Maeve Binchy: Three Complete Books: The Lilac Bus; Firefly Summer; Silver Wedding
| Author | Maeve Binchy |
| ISBN | 0517148641 |
Beloved on both sides of the Atlantic, bestselling Irish writer Maeve Binchy has been acclaimed by critics and readers alike for her heartwarming, beautifully crafted takes celebrating Ireland, its people, and the journey of life itself. Now three of her finest, most memorable works have been brought...
| Author | Lynn Breedlove |
| ISBN | 0312313632 |
Jim is a butch bike messenger and speedfreak who is suddenly faced with an ultimatum by her girlfriend: clean up or get out. Unable to kick her drug habit, Jim ends up unemployed and alone, so as a newly hired band roadie, she takes off for New York from San Francisco and starts to finally clean up. But even...
| Author | Katherine Blake |
| ISBN | 0671720104 |
I read this because Jo Walton wrote about it glowingly in "What Made This Book So Great." It is a domestic time-slip fantasy in which Sue, a mother of three (the back of my copy got it wrong and said she has 2 kids) slips in between doing dishes and cleaning house to a fantasy world that may or may not be in her...
| Author | Constance DeJong |
| ISBN | 0991558529 |
"People used to tell me, if you keep on writing maybe you'll make a name for yourself," New York-based artist and writer Constance DeJong (born 1950) wrote in Modern Love. "They were right: My name's Constance DeJong. My name's Fifi Corday. My name's Lady Mirabelle, Monsieur Le Prince, and Roderigo....
| Author | Kate Millett |
| ISBN | 0252068874 |
He leído por ahí que este libro es difícil de leer, porque va de aquí para allá, antes después, sí no, blanco negro, me voy me quedo, delirio bucle desquicio y al final te cansas de escribir porque tu mano no puede seguir el ritmo de tus pensamientos. También dicen que Kate está loquita, que si pensamiento...
| Author | Kathe Koja |
| ISBN | 0805043918 |
Koja's uncanny blend of eroticism and gothic hallucination, her unabashed readiness to take on the larger issues of the human condition, and her sheer lyricism as a prose stylist have set an ambitious standard by which other writers of her generation must be judged.
Kink explores the many...
| Author | Louisa Burton |
| ISBN | 0553384139 |
In this provocative follow-up to her sensational debut, House of Dark Delights, Louisa Burton issues another invitation to the notorious Castle of the Hidden Grotto—a place of entrancement, temptation, and searing eroticism.
For centuries the Castle of the Hidden Grotto, tucked...
The Leather Daddy and the Femme
| Author | Carol Queen |
| ISBN | 0940208318 |
Randy's looking for a leather daddy. Miranda is, too, one who'll find her femme persona as intriguing and fuckable as she is in boy drag. Jack thinks she's hot no matter what she looks like, and after "introducing" her to a few of his friends, decides to keep her on. This is San Francisco's notorious SOMA/South...
Psychopathia Sexualis: A Medico-Legal Study
| Author | Richard von Krafft-Ebing |
| ISBN | 0965032418 |
First published in Germany in 1886, Psychopathia Sexualis was extremely successful as both a classic reference volume for psychiatrists and as a new form of pornographic literature for the sexually transgressive and perverse. Printed in seven languages and twelve editions during the author's...
| Author | Tony O'Neill |
| ISBN | 0976657910 |
Digging the Vein's unnamed narrator has a problem: He has a burgeoning drug habit and a wife he's only known for two days, but no job, no money, and no way out. As the narrator's life crumbles, the pills, booze, and problems multiply until he hits on a brilliant solution: heroin. Soon the narrator is associating...
| Author | Spalding Gray |
| ISBN | 0679745238 |
Having detailed the agonies of writing a book in his monologue Monster in a Box, Spalding Gray now gives us the monster itself: a convulsively funny, unexpectedly moving novel about a man eternally searching for a moment of protected pleasure even as he is permanently incapable of finding it.
Brewster...
| Author | Percival Everett |
| ISBN | 0807083631 |
The unlikely narrator through this tale of misadventures is one Curt Marder: gambler, drinker, cheat, and would-be womanizer. It's 1871, and he's lost his farm, his wife, and his dog to a band of marauding hooligans. With nothing to live on but a desire to recover what is rightfully his, Marder is forced...
