The Letter Q: Queer Writers' Notes to their Younger Selves

The Full Spectrum: A New Generation of Writing About Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, Question

David Levithan, Billy Merrell · 280 pages

Teens are more aware of sexuality and identity than ever, and they're looking for answers and insights, as well as a community of others. In order to help create that community, YA authors David Levithan and Billy Merrell have collected original poems, essays, and stories by young adults in their teens and early 20s. The Full Spectrum includes a variety of writers--gay, lesbian, bisexual, straight

It Gets Better: Coming Out, Overcoming Bullying, and Creating a Life Worth Living

Dan Savage · 338 pages

A collection of original essays and expanded testimonials written to teens from celebrities, political leaders, and everyday people. While many of these teens can't see a positive future for themselves, we can. We can show LGBT youth the kind of happiness, potential, and satisfaction their lives hold if they can just get through these early years.

PoMoSexuals: Challenging Assumptions About Gender and Sexuality

Carol Queen, Lawrence Schimel · 199 pages

PoMo: short for PostModern; in th earts, a movement following after and in direct reaction to Modernism; culturally, an outlook that acknowledges diverse and complex points of view. PoMoSexual: the queer erotic reality beyond the boundaries of gender, separatism, and essentialist notions of sexual orientation.

To Belong Here: A New Generation of Queer, Trans, and Two-Spirit Appalachian Writers (Appalachian Futures Black Native & Queer Voices)

Rae Garringer · 112 pages

Dear John, I Love Jane: Women Write About Leaving Men for Women

Candace Walsh, Laura Andre · 270 pages

Persistence: All Ways Butch and Femme

Ivan E. Coyote, Zena Sharman · 312 pages

In the summer of 2009, butch writer and storyteller Ivan Coyote and gender researcher and femme dynamo Zena Sharman wrote down a wish-list of their favourite queer authors; they wanted to continue and expand the butch-femme conversation. The result is *Persistence: All Ways Butch and Femme*. The stories in these pages resist simple definitions. The people in these stories defy reductive stereotype

Gender Outlaws: The Next Generation

Kate Bornstein, S. Bear Bergman · 302 pages

Today's transgenders and other sex/gender radicals are writing a drastically new world into being. In Gender Outlaws, Bornstein, together with writer, raconteur, and theater artist S. Bear Bergman, collects and contextualizes the work of this generation's trans and genderqueer forward thinkers.

The Persistent Desire: A Femme-Butch Reader

Joan Nestle · 503 pages

Surveys a decade of the attempt to reconstruct and understand the meaning and value of butch-femme relations for the contemporary lesbian, drawing on oral history, fiction, poetry, and fantasy

YELL-Oh Girls!: Emerging Voices Explore Culture, Identity, and Growing Up Asian American

Vickie Nam · 336 pages

No Straight Lines: Four Decades of Queer Comics

Justin Hall · 306 pages

Queer cartooning encompasses some of the best and most interesting comics of the last four decades, with creators tackling complex issues of identity and a changing society with intelligence, humor, and imagination. This book celebrates this vibrant artistic underground by gathering together a collection of excellent stories that can be enjoyed by all. No Straight Lines showcases major names su

Yes Means Yes!: Visions of Female Sexual Power and A World Without Rape

Jaclyn Friedman, Jessica Valenti · 372 pages

In this groundbreaking new look at rape edited by writer and activist Jaclyn Freidman and ‘Full Frontal Feminism’ and ‘He’s A Stud, She’s A Slut’ author Jessica Valenti, the way we view rape in our culture is finally dismantled and replaced with a genuine understanding and respect for female sexual pleasure. Feminist, political, and activist writers alike will present their ideas for a paradigm sh

Chicken Soup For The Girl's Soul: Real Stories By Real Girls About Real Stuff

Jack Canfield · 345 pages

Bi Any Other Name: Bisexual People Speak Out

Loraine Hutchins, Lani Ka'ahumanu · 408 pages

Seven Seasons of Buffy: Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers Discuss Their Favorite Television Show

Glenn Yeffeth · 214 pages

Shadowhunters and Downworlders: A Mortal Instruments Reader

Holly Black, Kate Milford, Diana Peterfreund, Sara Ryan, Scott Tracey, Robin Wasserman, Kendare Blake, Gwenda Bond, Sarah Rees Brennan, Rachel Caine, Sarah Cross, Kami Garcia, Michelle Hodkin, Kelly Link

Contains: Introduction by Cassandra Clare Unhomely Places by Kate Milford The Art of War by Sarah Cross Sharper Than a Seraph Blade by Diana Peterfreund When Laws Are Made to Be Broken by Robin Wasserman Simon Lewis: Jewish, Vampire, Hero by Michelle Hodkin Why the Best Friend Never Gets the Girl by Kami Garcia Brotherly Love by Kendare Blake Asking for a Friend by Gwenda Bond (Not) Fo

Alone in the Kitchen with an Eggplant : Confessions of Cooking for One and Dining Alone

Jenni Ferrari-Adler · 280 pages

A delightful and unexpected collection of pieces by writers, foodies, and others-including Nora Ephron, Marcella Hazan, and Ann Patchett-on the distinctive experiences of cooking for one and dining alone.If, sooner or later, we all face the prospect of eating alone, then Alone in the Kitchen with an Eggplant provides the perfect set of instructions. In this unique collection, twenty-six writers an

Without a Net: The Female Experience of Growing Up Working Class

Michelle Tea · 240 pages

The New Journalism

Norman Mailer, Nicholas Tomalin, Joe McGinniss, George Plimpton, James Mills, John Gregory Dunne, John Sack, Joan Didion, 'Adam Smith', Rex Reed, Robert Christgau, Gay Talese, Richard Goldstein, Michael Herr, Truman Capote, Joe Eszterhas, Terry Southern, Hunter S. Thompson, Barbara L. Goldsmith, Gar · 394 pages

Selections from Rex Reed, Gay Talese, Richard Goldstein, Michael Herr, Truman Capote, Joe Eszterhas, Terry Southern, Hunter S. Thompson, Norman Mailer, Nicholas Tomalin, Tom Wolfe, Barbara L. Goldsmith, Joe McGinniss, George Plimpton, James Mills, John Gregory Dunne, John Sack, Joan Didion, "Adam Smith," Robert Christgau, and Garry Wills.

Dear Teen Me: Authors Write Letters to Their Teen Selves

E. Kristin Anderson, Sarah Ockler, Stephanie Pellegrin, Tera Lynn Childs, Beth Fantaskey, Dave Roman, Cynthia Leitich Smith, Carrie Jones, Tom Angleberger, Ellen Hopkins, Sara Zarr, Jessica Burkhart, Jessica Corra, Jessica Lee Anderson, Jessica Spotswood, Kekla Magoone, Erika Stalder, Joseph Bruchac · 192 pages

Paris Was Ours: Thirty-Two Writers Reflect on the City of Light

Penelope Rowlands · 279 pages

Paris is “the world capital of memory and desire,” concludes one of the writers in this intimate and insightful collection of memoirs of the city. Living in Paris changed these writers forever. In thirty-two personal essays—more than half of which are here published for the first time—the writers describe how they were seduced by Paris and then began to see things differently. They came to writ

State by State: A Panoramic Portrait of America

Matt Weiland, Sean Wilsey · 572 pages

The editors of The Thinking Fan's Guide to the World Cup collects original writings on all fifty states by leading novelists, journalists, and essayists, in a volume that includes such examples as Anthony Bourdain on New Jersey, Dave Eggers on Illinois, and Louise Erdrich on North Dakota.

What If? 2: Eminent Historians Imagine What Might Have Been

James D. Bradley, Cecilia Holland, Alistair Horne, David Kahn, John Lukacs, William Hardy McNeill, Lance Morrow, Williamson Murray, Josiah Ober, Robert L. O'Connell, Caleb Carr, Geoffrey Parker, Theodore K. Rabb, Andrew Roberts, Roger Spiller, Geoffrey C. Ward, Tom Wicker, James Chace, Theodore F. C · 427 pages

Fierce Pajamas: An Anthology of Humor Writing from The New Yorker

David Remnick, Henry Finder · 528 pages

Couldn't Keep It to Myself: Testimonies from Our Imprisoned Sisters

Wally Lamb, Nancy Whiteley, Tabitha Rowley, Nancy Birkla, Robin Cullen, Diane Bartholomew, Dale Griffith, Brenda Medina · 368 pages