The Passionate Mistakes and Intricate Corruption of One Girl in America

8 best books like The Passionate Mistakes and Intricate Corruption of One Girl in America (Michelle Tea): Honor Girl: A Graphic Memoir, I Love Dick, How Poetry Saved My Life: A Hustler's Memoir, Jane: A Murder, Devotion, Pink Mountain on Locust Island, The Sculptor, Indecency

Honor Girl: A Graphic Memoir

Author

Maggie Thrash

All-girl camp. First love. First heartbreak. At once romantic and devastating, brutally honest and full of humor, this graphic-novel memoir is a debut of the rarest sort.

Maggie Thrash has spent basically every summer of her fifteen-year-old life at the one-hundred-year-old Camp Bellflower...

I Love Dick

Author	Chris Kraus
ISBN	1584350342

In I Love Dick, Chris Kraus, author of Aliens & Anorexia, Torpor, and Video Green, boldly tears away the veil that separates fiction from reality and privacy from self-expression. It's no wonder that upon its publication in 1997, I Love Dick instantly elicited violent controversies and attracted...

How Poetry Saved My Life: A Hustler's Memoir

Author	Amber Dawn
ISBN	1551525003

As raw and fiery as its author, How Poetry Saved My Life is a powerful account of survival and the transformative power of literature.

Amber Dawn's acclaimed first novel Sub Rosa, a darkly intoxicating fantasy about a group of magical prostitutes who band together to fend off bad johns in a fantastical...

Jane: A Murder

Author	Maggie Nelson
ISBN	1932360719

Jane tells the spectral story of the life and death of Maggie Nelson’s aunt Jane, who was murdered in 1969 while a first-year law student at the University of Michigan. Though officially unsolved, Jane’s murder was apparently the third in a series of seven brutal rape-murders in the area. Nelson...

Devotion

Author	Patti Smith
ISBN	0300218621

 The National Book Award-winning author of Year of the Monkey, Just Kids, and M Train offers a rare, intimate account of her own creative process.

A work of creative brilliance may seem like magic—its source a mystery, its impact unexpectedly stirring. How does an artist accomplish such...

Pink Mountain on Locust Island

Author

Jamie Marina Lau

An unpredictable and innovative debut novel from a provocative new voice in Australian fiction. Embracing the noir tradition and featuring a prose style quite unlike any before, with references that will go both over your head and under your feet, Pink Mountain on Locust Island will flip readers upside...

The Sculptor

Author	Scott McCloud
ISBN	1596435739

David Smith is giving his life for his art—literally. Thanks to a deal with Death, the young sculptor gets his childhood wish: to sculpt anything he can imagine with his bare hands. But now that he only has 200 days to live, deciding  what  to create is harder than he thought, and discovering the love...

Indecency

Author	Justin Phillip Reed
ISBN	1566895146

Intricate, Intimate, Difficult, and Confrontational Poems That Push at the Boundaries of Selfhood, Skin, Culture, Sexuality, and Blood.

Indecency is boldly and carefully executed and perfectly ragged. In these poems, Justin Phillip Reed experiments with language to explore inequity...