Category: On Books and Publishing

Book reviews and author interviews, as well essays on the state of publishing.

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An Interview with PETA’s Dan Mathews

We spent many years kicking the door open and now we’ve got a foot in it.

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Animals On Books and Publishing

Dan Mathews’ Committed: A Rabble-Rouser’s Memoir

“Kids shouldn’t talk to strangers, even if the stranger is a vegetable.”

Committed: A Rabble-Rouser's Memoir by [Mathews, Dan]
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Film, Art, Television, and Media On Books and Publishing Queer Politics, Culture, and History Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic

“I’d been upstaged, demoted from protagonist in my own drama to comic relief in my parents’ tragedy.”

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Jacqueline Taylor’s Waiting for the Call: From Preacher’s Daughter to Lesbian Mom

The arc of the story is set in the title itself.

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Nicola Griffith’s Always

Money is a great thing to have in real life, but it makes for a lousy plot device in a novel.

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Animals On Books and Publishing Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

Barbara Kingsolver’s Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life

It never occurs to an otherwise progressive-minded Kingsolver that her project might replicate the United States’ political isolationism

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Todd Taylor’s Shirley Wins

Excerpt: Punk’s political power once lay, at least in part, in its refusal to live by categorizations, and its defiance of the imperative to grow up, settle down and pretend that there is nothing new to learn or live for after a point.

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Film, Art, Television, and Media On Books and Publishing Queer Politics, Culture, and History Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

Rupert Everett’s Red Carpets and Other Banana Skins: The Autobiography

Now, to be a celebrity was to become a logo.

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Sara Miles’ Take This Bread: A Radical Conversion

Take This Bread by Sara Miles
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On Books and Publishing Queer Politics, Culture, and History Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

A Different Take on Irshad Manji

She fully understands that history is made by those in power.  She consistently opposes those who don’t defer to power. 

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