Books
A Word In Edgewise: Those Little White Lies—and Other Shades on the Spectrum
“I didn’t break the lamp!” “I’m sorry, we can’t use that style novel at this time;” “Don’t worry, you’re going to be fine!” To translate the above, read: “I broke the lamp, I’m afraid I’ll be […]
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Berenice Abbott: A Life in Photography Julia Van Haaften Norton $45 A satisfying, exquisitely detailed portrait of photographer Berenice Abbott (1898-1991). Born in Ohio into a chaotic, peripatetic family, young Abbott herself was quirky, rebellious. She […]
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Where Privacy Dies: A Twin Cities Mystery Priscilla Paton Coffeetown Press $15.95 When the corpse of a well-dressed businessman is discovered in a wetland, and a photo of a dead or unconscious girl is discovered in […]
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Black Diamond Fall Joseph Olshan Polis Books $26; eBook $7.99 Olshan, author of Clara’s Heart, combines two actual events occurring at Vermont’s Middlebury College—the disappearance of a student during winter break, and the vandalizing of poet Robert […]
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Hollywood Heyday: 75 Candid Interviews with Golden Age Legends David Fantle & Tom Johnson McFarland & Co. $39.95 The authors, native Minnesotans, were eighteen when they made their first trip to interview Hollywood’s greats, beginning with […]
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Tinderbox: The Untold Story of the Up Stairs Lounge Fire and the Rise of Gay Liberation Robert W. Fieseler Liveright $26.95 32 gay individuals perished in the New Orleans Up Stairs Lounge fire, their existence ignored. […]
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Last Rites of the Capacitance Christopher Michael Carter Supposed Crimes LLC $8.99 e-book/Kindle; $17.99 paperback Space adventures usually start with a spectrum of crew members, who meet their various fates along the way. Carter opens with […]
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Go the Way Your Blood Beats: On Truth, Bisexuality and Desire Michael Amherst Repeater Books $14.95 Part memoir, part fragmented essays, interleaved with notes to unnamed, un-gendered past partners, Amherst explores the fluidity of sexuality and […]
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Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity C. Riley Snorton UMN Press $24.95 Snorton’s divisions of Black on Both Sides, “Blacken,” “Transit,” and “Blackout,” should alert the reader that this book is not simply […]
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Infinite Variety: Life and Legend of the Marchesa Casati Scott D. Ryerson and Michael Orlando Yaccarino University of Minnesota Press $29.95 Imagine a woman for whom an awed Quentin Crisp would write the foreword for […]
