The Beautifully Worthless
10 best books like The Beautifully Worthless (Ali Liebegott): Pills, Thrills, Chills, and Heartache: Adventures in the First Person, A Place Called No Homeland, The Creamsickle, The Beautiful: Collected Poems, Boys Like Her: Transfictions, Rat Bohemia, Love, Death, and the Changing of the Seasons, The Women Who Hate Me: Poetry, 1980-1990, American Dreams, Why Things Burn
Pills, Thrills, Chills, and Heartache: Adventures in the First Person
| Author | Clint Catalyst |
| ISBN | 1555837530 |
Thirty-seven writers. One rule. Each story must be told in the first person.
In this nice fat collection of original stories, some of the most daring writers on the American literary scene take up that slim little word 'I' and use it to poke around the darkest, funkiest corners of their very own...
| Author | Kai Cheng Thom |
| ISBN | 1551526794 |
This extraordinary poetry collection journeys to the place where forgotten ancestors live and monstrous women roam—and where the distinctions between body, land, and language are lost. In these fierce yet tender narrative poems, Thom draws from both memory and mythology to create new maps of...
| Author | Rhiannon Argo |
| ISBN | 1019352260 |
Meet The Crew.
Georgie--a hopeless romantic with a weakness for punk-rock-girls even if they consistently trample her heart.
Cruzer--a Mexican-American photographer, the tough kid, who chases love all the way to the East Coast.
Soda--a gender queer heartthrob from...
The Beautiful: Collected Poems
| Author | Michelle Tea |
| ISBN | 0916397890 |
“Tea writes with a raw-hearted, wry but wide-eyed ebullience, rendering dyke bohemia with intense, gritty, glittering romanticism.”—The San Francisco Bay Guardian
Before penning her contemporary classic Valencia, Tea wrote wonderfully honest narrative poems, which she self-published...
| Author | Taste This |
| ISBN | 0889740860 |
Boys Like Her is a provocative collection of fiction and images from Taste This, a queer performance group including Anna Camilleri, Ivan Coyote, Zoe Eakle and Lyndell Mongomery. Kate Bornstein provides an introduction.
Boys Like Her is a road movie of young queer life. Four distinct voices...
| Author | Sarah Schulman |
| ISBN | 0525937900 |
First published in 1995, this award-winning novel is a bold, achingly honest story set in the “rat bohemia” of New York City, whose huddled masses include gay men and lesbians abandoned by their families and forced to find new bonds with one another in the wake of this loss. Navigating the currents...
| Author | Marilyn Hacker |
| ISBN | 0393312259 |
Anyone who has ever been in love ought to read this book. Any woman who has ever been in love with another woman absolutely must read this book. Anyone who believes form in poetry trite will be changed by this book (and by Hacker's poetry in general).
I have heard Hacker read her work; each word is...
| Author | Dorothy Allison |
| ISBN | 0932379982 |
The Women Who Hate Me was first published as a chapbook in 1983 when Dorothy was 34; it was expanded and published in the form being reviewed here in 1991. Her short story collection Trash was first published in 1988 and an expanded version was published in 2002. She received mainstream recognition in...
| Author | Sapphire |
| ISBN | 0679767991 |
In the tradition of Alice Walker, this electrifying new African American voice delivers the verdict on the urban condition in a sensual, propulsive, and prophetic book of poetry and prose.
Whether she is writing about an enraged teenager gone "wilding" in Central Park, fifteen-year-old...
| Author | Daphne Gottlieb |
| ISBN | 1887128654 |
I'd like to list the pieces within this amazing collection by Daphne Gottlieb which, in my experience, mind and heart, felt strikingly resonant. I love the form and ferosity of her words. Here are some of the poems which, as I was reading them, felt as though they were being branded into my skin.
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| 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...
when i was a freshman in high school, i had this job answering phones for a few hours after school. the girl who worked the shift before me was a senior, and sometimes she'd hang around after her shift ended to share stories about all the crazy stuff her and her metalhead friends did. i was just starting high...
So Many Ways to Sleep Badly
| Author | Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore |
| ISBN | 0872864685 |
“Sycamore kicks mainstream literature in the teeth.”—The San Francisco Bay Guardian
Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore's exhilarating new novel is about struggling to find hope in the ruins of everyday San Francisco—battling roaches, Bikram Yoga, chronically bad sex, NPR, internet...
| Author | Chloë Brushwood Rose |
| ISBN | 1551521261 |
Brazen Femme: Queering Femininity is a manifesto for the unrepentant bitch, straddling the furious and fantastic. Undeniably celebratory and deeply troubling, this sharp-edged collection (of fiction, prose poetry, personal essay, photographs, and illustration) figures the un-hyphenated...
| Author | Alix Olson |
| ISBN | 1580052215 |
Female spoken word artists have become the spokeswomen for a new generation. This demanding oral poetry of the early 21st century has defined a vanguard of lithely muscled voices; women who think and act decisively to create their distinctive and desperately earned realities. The combination of...
