Books Reviewed in The Lesbian Edition #5
Find of the Month
Trace Elements of Random Tea Parties, Felicia Luna Lemus, $23, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Three from Michelle Tea
The Beautiful, $13.95, Manic D. Press
Without a Net: The Female Experience of Growing Up Working Class, $14.95, Seal Press/Live Girls Series
Pills, Thrills, Chills, and Heartache: Adventures in the First Person, edited by Michelle Tea and Clint Catalyst, $15.95, Alyson Publications
Best Lesbian Erotica 04, $14.95 Cleis
Take Back Your Life!
Dangerous Families: Queer Writings on Surviving, edited by Mattilda (a.k.a. Matt Bernstein Sycamore), $17.95, Harrington Park Press
Dish It Up, Baby, Kristie Helm, $14.95, Firebrand
Borderlines, Carolin Kraus, $23.95, Broadway/Random House
Of Lives and Literature
Songs of the Gorilla Nation: My Journey Through Autism, Dawn Prince-Hughes, $24, Harmony/Random House
Negotiating with the Dead: A Writer on Writing, Margaret Atwood, $14, Anchor/Random House
Girl-Gets-Girl Affection
Back to Basics: A Butch-Femme Anthology, edited by Therese Szymanki, $14.95, Bella/BAD
Girls with Hammers, Cynn Chadwick, $19.95, Alice Street Editions
Cat Rising, Cynn Chadwock, $17.95, Alice Street Editions
Gulf Breeze, Gerri Hill, $12.95, Bella
Survival of Love, Frankie J. Jones, $12.95, Bella
Social Science
The Pecking Order: Which Siblings Succeed and Why, Dalton Conley, $24, Pantheon/Random House
Politics
Bushwomen: Tales of a Cynical Species, Laura Flander, $22, Verso
More on Marriage
Legal Guide for Lesbian and Gay Couples, $29.99 paper, Nolo Press
Equality Practices: Civil Unions and the Future of Gay Rights, William Eskridge, $17.95 pb, Routledge, 2002
Civil Unions: Opening Hearts and Minds, Linda Hollingdale, $23, Common Humanity Press, 2002
On Same-Sex Marriage, Civil Unions, and the Rule of Law: Constitutional Interpretation at the Crossroads, Mark Strasser, $44.95, Praeger, 2002
Legal Recognition of Same-Sex Partnerships: A Study of National, European and International Law, edited by Robert Wintemute and Mads Andenas, $108, Hart Publishing, 2001
Now in Paper
Solitaire, Kelley Eskridge $13.95, Eos/HarperCollins
Leaving Mother Lake, Yang Erche Namu and Christine Mathieu, $14.95, Little Brown
Crawfish Dreams, Nancy Rawles, $13, Anchor/Random House
Love Like Gumbo, Nancy Rawles
Nothing That Meets the Eye: The Uncollected Stories of Patricia Highsmith, $15.95, Norton
Books to Watch Out For
Now Is the Time to Open Your Heart, Alice Walker, $24.95, Random House
Rent Girl, Michelle Tea, $24.95, Last Gasp
Awards
Nebulas
Salt Roads, Nalo Hopkinson, Warner
Diplomatic Immunity, Lois McMaster Bujold, Baen
The Mount, Carol Emshwiller, Small Beer Press
Light Music, Kathleen Ann Goonan, Eos
The Speed of Dark, Elizabeth Moon Ballantine
Publishing Triangle Awards Finalists
The Ferro-Grumley Award for Fiction: Women
Dykes and Sundry Other Carbon-Based Life-Forms to Watch Out For, Alison Bechdel, Alyson
The End of Youth, Rebecca Brown, City Lights
Southland, Nina Revoyr, Akashic
The Ferro-Grumley Awards for Fiction: Men
Lives of the Circus Animals, Christopher Bram, William Morrow
Through It Came Bright Colors, Trebor Healey, Harrington Park
The Music of Your Life, John Rowell, Simon & Schuster
The Judy Grahn Award for Lesbian Nonfiction
The Sharon Kowalski Case: Lesbian and Gay Rights on Trial, Casey Charles, University Press of Kansas
Naked in the Promised Land, Lillian Faderman, Houghton Mifflin
Beautiful Shadow: A Life of Patricia Highsmith, Andrew Wilson, Bloomsbury USA
The Randy Shilts Award for Gay Nonfiction
Dry, Augusten Burroughs, St. Martin's
Lost Prophet: The Life and Times of Bayard Rustin, John D'Emilio, Free Press
What We Lost, Dale Peck, Houghton Mifflin
The Audre Lorde Award for Lesbian Poetry
Final Girl, Daphne Gottlieb, Soft Skull Press
Desesperanto, Marilyn Hacker, W.W. Norton
The Dirt She Ate, Minnie Bruce Pratt, University of Pittsburgh Press
The Publishing Triangle Award for Gay Male Poetry
The Charge, Patrick Donnelly, Ausable Press
Saying the World, Peter Pereira, Copper Canyon Press
The Room Where I Was Born, Brian Teare, University of Wisconsin Press
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