Against memoir : complaints, confessions & criticisms

Summary: "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.

Record details

ISBN: 9781936932184
ISBN: 1936932180
ISBN: 9781936932191
Physical Description: print
319 pages ; 21 cm
Edition: First Feminist Press edition.
Publisher: New York, NY : The Feminist Press at the City University of New York, 2018.
Copyright: ©2018

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:

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.