Research Catalog

Details

Description

1. 319 pages; 21 cm

Summary

1. "The razor-sharp but damaged Valerie Solanas, a doomed lesbian biker gang, recovering alcoholics, and teenagers barely surviving at an ice creamery: these are some of the larger-than-life, yet all-too-human figures populating America's fringes. Rife with never-ending fights and failures, theirs are the stories we too often try to forget. But in the process of excavating and documenting these queer lives, Michelle Tea also reveals herself in unexpected and heartbreaking ways. Delivered with her signature honesty and dark humor, this is Tea's first-ever collection of journalistic writing. As she blurs the line between telling other people's stories and her own, she turns an investigative eye to the genre that's nurtured her entire career--memoir--and considers the price that art demands be paid from life."--Provided by publisher.

Subject

1. Authors, American
2. Lesbian authors
3. Tea, Michelle
4. Anecdotes
5. Authors, American > 20th century > Biography
6. Autobiographies
7. Biography
8. 1900-1999
9. United States
10. Lesbian authors > United States > Biography

Genre/Form

1. Anecdotes.
2. Autobiographies.
3. Biography.

Contents

1. Art & music. On Valerie Solanas ; Andy Warhol's Self-portrait ; Times Square ; On Erin Markey ; On Chelsea girls ; Gene loves Jezebel ; Purple rain ; Minor threat ; Sonic Youth's magic -- Love & queerness. Transmissions from Camp Trans ; How to not be a queer douchebag ; Polishness ; Hard times ; HAGS in your face ; How to refer to my husband-wife -- Writing & life. The city to a young girl ; Pigeon manifesto ; Summer of lost jobs ; Telling your friends you're sober ; Sister spit feminism ; I had a miscarriage ; Baba ; Dire straits ; Against memoir.

Call number

1. JFD 18-3774

Author

1. Tea, Michelle, author.

Title

1. Against memoir : complaints, confessions & criticisms / Michelle Tea.

Publisher

1. New York, NY : The Feminist Press at the City University of New York, 2018.

Copyright date

1. ©2018

Edition

1. First Feminist Press edition.

Type of content

1. text

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Chronological term

1. 1900-1999

Other form:

1. Online version: Tea, Michelle. Against memoir. First Feminist Press edition. New York, NY : The Feminist Press at the City University of New York, 2018 9781936932191 (DLC) 2017054713

LCCN

1. 2017049287

Other standard identifier

1. 40028159498

ISBN

1. 9781936932184 paperback
2. 1936932180 paperback

Research call number

1. JFD 18-3774