In the 1920s when Laura Dillon felt like a man trapped in a woman's body, there were no words to describe her condition; "transsexuals "had yet to enter common usage. And there was no known solution to being stuck between the sexes. Laura Dillon did all she could on her own: she cut her hair, dressed in men's clothing, bound her breasts with a ...
n 1890 a twenty-four-year-old African American missionary named William Henry Sheppard departed for what was then the Belgian Congo, where for more than twenty years he ran a mission staffed by black Americans. Returning to America periodically, he was billed as the "Black Livingstone" and traveled the country telling tales of his adventures to ...
Non-fiction is the new black comedy in this hilarious collection of award-winning literary essays written by the infamous Pagan Kennedy. In the title piece, Alex Comfort, author of "The Joy of Sex", reinvents himself as a sex guru in California and hatches a plan to destroy monogamy forever. In the stories that follow, a retired chemist finds a ...
Frannie and Doris, sisters and spinsters, are finally free from family ties and constraints. Taking off in their Plymouth Valient, they hit the road on a journey through the changing cultural landscape of America - civil rights marches and the assassination of Martin Luther King.
Plunges the reader into a world of dark and haunting visions by laying bare the lives of females who exist on the fringes - punk teenagers, voodoo queens, academic losers. This collection of short stories mirrors the fragility of lives rooted in the virtual reality of modern America.
Win Duncan is at a crossroads in his career when he is summoned by a brilliant chemist from his college days who is developing a drug that gives one the ability to recall life's best memories. Duncan becomes a beta tester and loses himself to the most delicious moments of his past until he discovers the dark side effects of the drug.
A history of the lost years of the 1970s, the "Decade that Taste Forgot," captures all the turbulence, inconsistencies, hedonism, and serious social action of the much-maligned years that connected the idealistic 1960s and the greedy 1980s. Original. 25,000 first printing.
A young woman named Pagan, just graduated from a writing program at a very prestigious university, is left with one burning question--Now what? She then takes an unusual step by deciding to invent her new self--the one the public will know--by creating her own magazine, written, created by, and starring none other than herself.
A week after Hank and Lily decide to break up, they start an indie-rock band together and come up with a unique gimmick: it will be made up of ex-girlfriends and boyfriends. But as soon as The Exes go in tour, the band finds out it's not easy to share a motel room with your old flame.
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