A Feminist Experiment
ORIGINALLY WRITTEN in Danish and published five years ago, My Seven Mothers is a memoir that’s also a historical account of events in the Danish women’s movement between 1970 and 1976.
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Short reviews of The Paris Express, The Art Spy, Memoir of a Reluctant Giant, Julian’s Debut, The Portable Feminist Reader, and Love in the Lav
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Guided by Joni
The author traces his admiration for the legendary singer-songwriter to his solitary childhood in New Jersey.
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Expatriate Days
PART MEMOIR, part travelog, and part journalistic inquiry, Gaar Adams’ Guest Privileges embraces multiple genres.
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When Broadway Called
THEATER KID is a touching memoir of Jeffrey Seller’s journey from poverty to success as the producer of award-winning but unconventional musicals, offering an entertaining, informative recounting of meetings with colorful investors and theater personalities and discussing lesser-known aspects of producing shows, including advertising and ticketing. He also describes his first gay relationship and, having been adopted as an infant, his search for his biological family.
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The Arc of Liberation
In his new memoir, Where the Pulse Lives, John Loughery has captured what it was like for him to come out just as the Stonewall riots cracked open the oppression of LGBT people.
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Bruce Vilanch, Comedy Writer to the Stars
Many of Vilanch’s vivid anecdotes are almost surreal, and he acknowledges that most of the shows would have been forgotten had they not been granted new life on YouTube. Along with his stinging wit, Vilanch is a tremendous raconteur. His new memoir is essential reading for any retro TV enthusiast.
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Recovering Catholicism
In our current political climate, workshops on diversity training and gay issues in the workplace are a relic of the past. Still, the later chapters of A Prince of a Boy are rewarding for the story they tell of the author’s spiritual evolution. Eventually, McNaught “walked backward out of the Church of Rome” and ceased to waste his time on religious conservatives. He considers himself a friend of Buddha and can imagine Jesus as a homosexual.
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An Outsider Looks Inward
Walk Like a Girl is an unflinchingly honest account of a life lived precariously, never accepted fully in any circle he moves in. His acknowledgement that even fashion design is political, his clear-sighted awareness of his own complicity in some systems of oppression, and his conscious attempts to challenge those systems makes this a memoir that may earn an important place in the history of fashion.
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He Never Forgets a Face, or a Body
IT HAS BEEN SAID that the three stages of sex are feel, squeal, and congeal. All are abundantly present in Edmund White’s new collection of mini-memoirs. The Loves of My Life: A Sex Memoir rises to the challenge of its subtitle by being both an enjoyable memoir and a lively book about sex, which the author discusses in a clear, open way that’s refreshing, and necessary, in a society as puritanical as our own.
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