Books Reviewed In
BTWOF: The Lesbian Edition
Volume 1 Number 11
Books Reviewed in The Lesbian Edition #11
New Presses
Aqueduct Press, P.O. Box 95787, Seattle, WA 98145, http://aqueductpress.com/.
Life, Gwyneth Jones, $19 paper, 370 pages.
Loves Body, Dancing in Time, L. Timmel Duchamp, $16 paper, 191 pages.
With Her Body, Nicola Griffith, $8, 120 pages.
Changeling, Nancy Jane Moore, $8, 75 pages.
The Grand Conversation, L. Timmel Duchamp, $8, 80 pages.
Bywater Books
Under the Witness Tree, Marianne Martin, $12.95.
The Intersection of Law and Desire, J. M. Redmann, $12.95.
The Big Books: Alice Walker and Life Mask
Alice Walker, Evelyn C. White, $29.95 cloth, Norton.
Life Mask, Emma Donoghue, $26 cloth, Harcourt.
These are trying times...
Good Faith, Jane Smiley, $13.95, Anchor.
Claiming Our Own
Ms. Moffetts First Year: Becoming a Teacher in America, Abby Goodnough, $25 cloth, Public Affairs/Perseus Books Group.
Cooking with Grease, Donna Brazile, $23 cloth, Simon & Schuster.
Graphic (Auto-)Biography
Rent Girl, Michelle Tea with illustrations by LaurennMcCubbin, $24.95 paper, Last Gasp.
Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi, $11.95, Pantheon/Random House.
Persepolis 2, Marjane Satrapi, $17.95 cloth, Pantheon/Random House.
Four from Seal Press + 2
Secrets & Confidences: The Complicated Truth about Womens Friendships, edited by Karen Eng, $14.95, Seal Press.
Truth & Beauty, Ann Pachett, $23.95 cloth, Harper Collins.
The Beauvoir Sisters: An Intimate Look at How Simone and Helene Influenced Each Other and the World , Claudine Monteil, $14.95, Seal Press.
The F Word: Feminism in Jeopardy: Women, Politics, and the Future, Kristin Rose-Finkbeiner, $14.95, Seal.
Word: On Being a [Woman] Writer, edited by Jocelyn
Burrell, $16.95, The Feminist Press.
Fiction
Rosemary and Juliet, Judy MacLean, $17.95
paper, 265 pages, Alice Street Editions/Harrington Park Press.
Friday Night Romance
All the Wrong Places, Karin Kallmaker, $12.95, Bella After Dark.
The Hearts Desire, Anna Furtado, $15.95, Yellow Rose Books.
White Lace and Promises, Peggy Herring, $12.95, Bella.
Bit Parts
Ladies Coupe, Anita Nair, $14.95, St. Martins Press.
Queer Beats
Queer Beats: How the Beats Turned
America On to Sex, Regina Marler, $16.95, Cleis Press.
Girls Who Wore Black: Women Writing the Beat Generation, Ronna Johnson, $22 paper, Rutgers.
Women of the Beat Generation: The Writers, Artists, and Muses at the
Heart of Revolution, Brenda Knight, $16.95, Conari Press.
Periodically Yours,
Sinister Wisdom: Lesbian Writers
on Writing and Reading (#62), $6 + $1.50 p&h. Sinister Wisdom, PO Box 3252, Berkeley, CA 94703.
Chroma: A Queer Literary Journal, US$20/year, http://www.gaymenwriting.co.uk/, or PO Box 44655, London, N16 0WQ, England.
Now in Paperback
Trace Elements of Random Tea Parties, Felicia Luna Lemus, $12.95, Seal Press.
Salt Roads, Nalo Hopkinson, $14.95, Warner Books.
The Funny Thing Is..., Ellen DeGeneres, $12, Simon & Schuster.
The Way the Crow Flies, Ann-Marie MacDonald, $14.95, Harper.
What They're Reading at A Room of One's Own
Life Mask, Emma Donoghue, $26 cloth, HBJ.
Dish It Up Baby, Kristie Helms, $14.95, Firebrand Books.
A Perfect Age, Heather Skyler, $24.95, Norton.
Fanny - A Fiction, Edmund White, $13.95, Harper.
Ordinary Wolves, Seth Kantner, $22 cloth, Milkweed.
The Photograph, Penelope Lively, $14.00, Penguin.
Grassroots: A Field Guide for Feminist Activism, Jennifer Baumgardner
and Amy Richards, $14.00, FSG.
The Forest Lover, Susan Vreeland, $14.00, Penguin.
The Librarian of Basra: A True Story from Iraq, Jeanette Winter, $16 cloth,Harcourt.
Halibut Jackson, David Lucas, $16.95 cloth, Knopf.
Lighthousekeeping, Jeanette Winterson, $23 cloth, Harcourt, April
2005.
March, Geraldine Brooks, $24.95 cloth, Viking, March 2005.
The Crime Scene
Death by Discount, Mary Vermillion, $13.95, Alyson.
Guarded Hearts, Hannah Rickard, $12.95, Bella.
When the Corpse Lies, Therese Szymanski, $12.95, Bella.
Point Last Seen, Hannah Nyala, $12, Pocket.
Cry Last Heard, Hannah Nyala, $6.99, Pocket.
Leave No Trace, Hannah Nyala, $6.99, Pocket.
Naughty Little Secrets, Mary Wilborn, $14, Kensington.
Dying in the Dark, Valerie Wilson Wesley, $22.95 cloth, One World.
When Death Comes Stealing, Valerie Wilson Wesley, $6.99, Avon.
Absent Friends, S.J. Rozan, $24 cloth, Bantam.
Beautiful Rage, Sandra Scoppettone, $25.95 cloth, Five Star.
Everything You Have is Mine, Sandra Scoppettone, out of print.
I'll Be Leaving You Always, Sandra Scoppettone, $6.50, Fawcett.
My Sweet Untraceable You, Sandra Scoppettone, out of print.
Let's Face the Music and Die, Sandra Scoppettone, $6.50, Fawcett.
Gonna Take a Homicidal Journey, Sandra Scoppettone, $6.99, Fawcett.
Grave Endings, Rochelle Krich, $24.95, Ballantine.
Blues in the Night, Rochelle Krich, $6.99, Fawcett.
Dream House, Rochelle Krich, $6.99, Fawcett.
Caught Reading
Gilead, Marilynne Robinson, $23 cloth, FSG.
Housekeeping, Marilynne Robinson, $14, Picador.
Wild Girls, Diana Souhami, £18.99, Weidenfeld & Nicolson. (UK only)
Moral Politics: How Liberals and Conservatives Think, George Lakoff, $22 paper, University of Chicago.
What's the Matter With Kansas?: How Conservatives Won the Heart of America, Thomas Frank, $24 cloth, Holt.
The Hearing Trumpet, Leonora Carrington, $15.95, Exact Change.
Maitreya's: Distinguishing Phenomena and Pure Being, Mipham, $18.95 paper, Snow Lion.
Awards and Prizes
The Line
of Beauty, Alan Hollinghurst, $24.95 cloth, Bloomsbury.
The Master, Colm Tobin, $25 cloth, Simon & Schuster.
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