50 Gay and Lesbian Books Everybody Must Read by Richard Canning
$24.95 AUD
Category: Literary Studies
Gay topics have been central to most national literary traditions, whether in fiction, memoir, drama, or verse. Yet "crossover" success stories are remarkably few, as are works of literature about gay subjects, written by heterosexual authors. Furthermore, openly gay-themed books tend to get passed over ...Show more
American Scream : Allen Ginsberg's Howl and the making of the Beat Generation by Jonah Raskin
$54.95 AUD
Category: Literary Studies
"Jonah Raskin's "American Scream adds to the ever-growing fact and fiction of the Allen Ginsberg persona. All Ginsberg addicts will have to have this book for adulation and reassessment."--Lawrence Ferlinghetti "The view of beat America from the middle distance has grown all too familiar over the years, ...Show more
Between Men: English Literature and Male Homosocial Desire: Thirtieth Anniversary Edition by Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
$45.95 AUD
Category: Literary Studies | Series: Gender and Culture Series
First published in 1985, Between Men challenged old ways of reading while articulating critical byways for two emerging disciplines. Its iconoclastic approach gave queer studies and gender studies scholars further reason to crack open the canon, scrutinize its contents, and add unconventional texts on s ...Show more
Blanche - The Life and Times of Tennessee Williams's Greatest Creation by Nancy Schoenberger
$59.99 AUD
Category: Literary Studies
A penetrating consideration of Tennessee Williams's most enduring character--Blanche DuBois from A Streetcar Named Desire--written by the co-author of The Fabulous Bouvier Sisters and Furious Love. Ever since Jessica Tandy glided onto the stage in Tennessee Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire at the Eth ...Show more
Bone Black: Memories of Girlhood by Bell Hooks
$29.95 AUD
Category: Out of Print
Stitching together girlhood memories with the finest threads of innocence, feminist intellectual bell hooks presents a powerfully intimate account of growing up in the South. A memoir of ideas and perceptions, Bone Black shows the unfolding of female creativity and one strong-spirited child's journey to ...Show more
Chasing Lost Time: The Life of C.K. Scott Moncrieff: Soldier, Spy and Translator by Jean Findlay
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Category: Literary Studies
C. K. Scott Moncrieff's celebrated translation of Proust's A La Recherche du Temps Perdu was first published in 1922 and was a work which would exhaust and consume the translator, leading to his early death at the age of just forty. Joseph Conrad told him, 'I was more interested and fascinated by your r ...Show more
Dare Me!: The Life and Work of Gerald Glaskin by John Burbidge
$34.95 AUD
Category: Gay Male & Bi Biography/Memoir
Gerald Glaskin (1923-2000) pushed the boundaries of acceptability in what he wrote and how he wrote it. His 20 major publications - novels, short stories, travelogues, memoirs, plays, and more - tackled such taboo subjects as homosexuality, incest, and parapsychology. In the aftermath of World War II, G ...Show more
Devotion by Patti Smith
$27.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Why I Write Ser. | Reading Level: very good
The national bestseller from the renowned artist and author Patti Smith, exploring the nature of creative invention A work of creative brilliance may seem like magic--its source a mystery, its impact unexpectedly stirring. How does an artist accomplish such an achievement, connecting deeply with an audi ...Show more
Devotion: Why I Write by Patti Smith
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Category: Literary Studies | Series: Why I Write Ser.
From the renowned artist and author Patti Smith, a rare and generous look into the 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 an achievement, connecting deeply with an audience never met? ...Show more
Dizzy Limits - Recent Experiments in Australian Nonfiction by contributors, Various
$29.99 AUD
Category: General
What is ‘experimental nonfiction’? Like all nonfiction writing it is steeped in facts, in real events, and in real people, with the aim of communicating information, argument, and truth. It differs from traditional nonfiction in that it tries to convey its meaning using unorthodox form, or style, or voi ...Show more
Eve Langley and the Pea Pickers by Helen Vines
$34.99 AUD
Category: Literary Studies
Autobiography or fiction? This question has shadowed the work of enigmatic Australian author Eve Langley since her death in 1974. Was her writing the truth, or false, or somewhere in between? What did it mean when she described her father as ‘evil’ and ‘perverted’ in her first published novel The Pea Pi ...Show more