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The New Fuck You: Adventures in Lesbian Reading (Semiotext(e) Native Agent Series)

by Eileen Myles

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Publisher Comments:

Borrowing its name from the notorious '60s Ed Sanders magazine, Fuck You: A Magazine of the Arts, the editors have figured a way to rehone its countercultural and frictional stance with style and aplomb. A unique and provocative anthology of lesbian writing, guaranteed to soothe the soulful and savage the soulless.

Contributors:
Tanya Barfield, Dodie Bellamy, Adele Bertei, Lisa Beskin, Rebecca Brown, Kelly Cogswell, Dominique Dibbell, Shannon Ebner, Laura Flanders, Eliza Galaher, Marilyn Hacker, Holly Hughes, Lisa Kron, Joan Larkin, Myra Mniewski, Honor Moore, Cynthia Nelson, Madeline Olnek, Nancy Redwine, Julie Regan, Annie Reid, Danine Ricereto, Camille Roy, Sapphire Joan Schenkar, Kathy Lou Schultz, Lucy Sexton, Linda Smukler, Pamela Sneed, Christina Sunley, Carmelita Tropicana, Claudia von Vacano, Laurie Weeks, Debra Weinstein, Joe Westmoreland, Millie Wilson, Linda Yablonsky.

Synopsis:

A unique and provocative anthology of lesbian writing, guaranteed to soothe the soulful and savage the soulless. Includes Adele Bertei, Holly Hughes, Sapphire, Laurie Weeks, and many more.

Synopsis:

Borrowing its name from the notorious '60s Ed Sanders magazine, Fuck You: A Magazine of the Arts, the editors have figured a way to rehone its countercultural and frictional stance with style and aplomb. A unique and provocative anthology of lesbian writing, guaranteed to soothe the soulful and savage the soulless.

Contributors:
Tanya Barfield, Dodie Bellamy, Adele Bertei, Lisa Beskin, Rebecca Brown, Kelly Cogswell, Dominique Dibbell, Shannon Ebner, Laura Flanders, Eliza Galaher, Marilyn Hacker, Holly Hughes, Lisa Kron, Joan Larkin, Myra Mniewski, Honor Moore, Cynthia Nelson, Madeline Olnek, Nancy Redwine, Julie Regan, Annie Reid, Danine Ricereto, Camille Roy, Sapphire Joan Schenkar, Kathy Lou Schultz, Lucy Sexton, Linda Smukler, Pamela Sneed, Christina Sunley, Carmelita Tropicana, Claudia von Vacano, Laurie Weeks, Debra Weinstein, Joe Westmoreland, Millie Wilson, Linda Yablonsky.

About the Author

Eileen Myles, named by BUST magazine "the rock star of modern poetry," is the author of more than twenty books of poetry and prose, including Chelsea Girls, Cool for You, Sorry, Tree and Not Me (Semiotext(e), 1991), and is the coeditor of The New Fuck You (Semiotext(e), 1995). Myles was head of the writing program at University of California, San Diego, from 2002 to 2007, and she has written extensively on art and writing and the cultural scene. Most recently, she received a fellowship from the Andy Warhol/Creative Capital Foundation.Liz Kotz writes on contemporary art and on interdisciplinary avant-gardes of the postwar era. She teaches in the Art History Department at the University of California, Riverside.

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This book is a must read for everybody. Adults and teenagers alike will appreciate these short stories; from the trials and tribulations of coming out, rape, young love and just being alive, each story is emotive, sometimes provocative, as seen through the eyes of lesbians.
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Product Details

ISBN:
9781570270574
Subtitle:
Adventures in Lesbian Reading
Editor:
Myles, Eileen
Editor:
Kotz, Liz
Editor:
Myles, Eileen
Author:
Kotz, Liz
Author:
Myles, Eileen
Editor:
Kotz, Liz
Publisher:
Semiotext(e)
Subject:
Fiction
Subject:
Lesbian Studies
Subject:
Lesbians
Subject:
Lesbianism
Subject:
Essays
Copyright:
Edition Description:
Trade paper
Series:
Semiotext(e) Native Agent Series
Publication Date:
June 1995
Binding:
Paperback
Grade Level:
General/trade
Language:
English
Pages:
316
Dimensions:
7.12x4.50x.73 in. .56 lbs.

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