Bella Books posted New Books from Saxon, Robbi and Robinson – Newsletter 05/2011. GLBT Promo Blog posted Lesfic and Bi fic centerstage on Readings radio. Golden Crown Literary Society posted the finalists for their 2011 Goldie Awards. Lamda Literary posted Amazon.com Renews $25,000 Grant to Lambda Literary’s Writers’ Retreat for Emerging LGBT Voices Christina Hutchins,Read More
Laura Mandanas reviews Forbidden Passages
Forbidden Passages: Writings Banned in Canada is a book of essays, short stories, and excerpts of texts that have been seized and censored in Canada. The collection features a broad range of perspectives and does not shy away from any subject. (Due, unfortunately, to the fact that Canadian censors shy away from just about everything.)Read More
Guest Lesbrarian Rie reviews The Chelsea Whistle
Previous to reading The Chelsea Whistle, I’d attempted a memoir by a smothered-but-privileged writer. This history of Tea’s youth soared where that failed. It’s all those adjectives given to books that end up written by a mom in the midwest–raw, gritty, real, hopeful–but this one’s real. It’s the brutality of childhood that we all experience,Read More
Guest Lesbrarian Orange Sorbet reviews Unbearable Lightness by Portia De Rossi
I thought Teri Hatcher’s Burnt Toast: And Other Philosophies of Life had poisoned celebrity autobiographies for me forever, but when I first heard of Portia’s Unbearable Lightness: A Story of Loss and Gain, I knew I had to get it. (This may or may not have had to do with how cute I think sheRead More
Weekly Link Round Up
About.com Lesbian Life posted Lesbian Summer Reading List 2011. AfterEllen posted a clip from the new BBC2’s adaptation of Sarah Waters’s The Night Watch. Dorothy Surrenders posted Gentlemen (and Ladies) Prefer Bookworms, including a picture of Rachel Maddow with her library. GLBT Promo Blog posted a link to an excerpt from Egyptian Moon by Diane Taylor.Read More
Guest Lesbrarian Orange Sorbet reviews Price of Salt by Patricia Highsmith
When this novel was published in 1952, it was Controversial with the Capital and thus, naturally, immensely popular. Patricia Highsmith – apparently a pretty renowned author but not a particularly likable personality – wrote it under the pseudonym “Claire Morgan” and denied having anything to do with the book until much later on in life,Read More
Anna reviews Paperback Romance by Karin Kallmaker
I recently picked up a stack of lesbian romance novels at a used bookstore, and Karin Kallmaker’s Paperback Romance (1992) was among them. It wouldn’t be an exaggeration to say that I’ve read almost everything she’s written (and own copies of most of her books), but it’s been a very long time since I readRead More
A couple of announcements
The Lesbrary is now on twitter! I’m a little new to the whole thing, but you can find me at @Lesbrary. And in case you’ve forgotten I (Danika) am still also on tumblr, at Fuck Yeah Lesbian Literature. We’ve just hit 1000 followers, and I’m giving away some lesbian books to celebrate! Here’s the link.Read More
Weekly Link Round Up
Curve Magazine posted about the closing of A Different Light bookstore. Elisa posted the 2011 Rainbow Awards Cover Contest. Gay YA posted a guest post by Hannah Moskowitz. GLBT Promo posted an excerpt from the BDSM lesbian erotica book Slave to Lust by Dalia Craig. GLBT Reading posted their May Reviews post (post your linksRead More
Kelly reviews Hello Cruel World: 101 Alternatives to Suicide for Teens, Freaks, and Other Outlaws by Kate Bornstein
After the success of the It Gets Better project and the recent publication of the accompanying book, I wanted to revisit another book aimed at suicidal young queers. Kate Bornstein’s Hello Cruel World: 101 Alternatives to Suicide for Teens, Freaks, and Other Outlaws was first published in 2006. Bornstein is well known as a performance artist and genderRead More
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