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Thema: Autobiografie



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Hannah Gadsby: Ten Steps to Nanette

Hannah Gadsby: Ten Steps to Nanette

A Memoir Situation. UK 2023, 389 pp., brochure, € 15.95
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Random House
Hannah Gadsby's unique standup special Nanette was a viral success that left audiences captivated by her blistering honesty and her ability to create both tension and laughter in a single moment. Gadsby's worldwide fame might have led some to believe she was an overnight sensation, but like everything else about her, the path from open mic to the global stage ... Weiterlesen

Chelsea Manning: README.txt

Chelsea Manning: README.txt

UK 2022, 259 pp., brochure, € 22.95
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Vintage
In 2010, Chelsea Manning, working as an intelligence analyst in the U.S. Army in Iraq, disclosed 720,000 classified military documents that she had smuggled out via the memory card of her digital camera. In March 2011, the United States Army sentenced Manning to 35 years in military prison, charging her with 22 counts relating to the unauthorized possession and distribution ... Weiterlesen

Bernardine Evaristo: Manifesto

Bernardine Evaristo: Manifesto

UK 2021, 208 pp., hardbound, € 19.99
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Penguin UK
In 2019, Bernardine Evaristo became the first black woman to win the Booker Prize since its inception fifty years earlier - a revolutionary landmark for Britain. Her journey was a long one, but she made it, and she made history. »Manifesto« is her intimate and fearless account of how she did it. From a childhood steeped in racism from neighbours, ... Weiterlesen

George M. Johnson: All Boys Aren't Blue

George M. Johnson: All Boys Aren't Blue

GB 2020, 320 pp. pb., € 14.95
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux
In a series of personal essays, prominent journalist and gay activist George M. Johnson explores his childhood, adolescence, and college years in New Jersey and Virginia. From the memories of getting his teeth kicked out by bullies at age five, to flea marketing with his loving grandmother, to his first sexual relationships, this young-adult memoir weaves together the trials and ... Weiterlesen

Audre Lorde: The Cancer Journals

Audre Lorde: The Cancer Journals

UK 2020, 71 pp., brochure, € 17.95
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Penguin UK
Moving between journal entry, memoir, and exposition, Audre Lorde fuses the personal and political as she reflects on her experience coping with breast cancer and a radical mastectomy. Long before narratives explored the silences around illness and women's pain, Lorde questioned the rules of conformity for women's body images and supported the need to confront physical loss not hidden by ... Weiterlesen

Kimberly M. Zieselman: XOXY

Kimberly M. Zieselman: XOXY

A Memoir (Intersex Woman, Mother, Activist). UK 2020, 272 pp., brochure, € 24.99
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Jessica Kingsley
Meet Kimberly, a regular suburban housewife and mother, whose discovery later in life that she was born intersex fuelled her to become an international human rights defender and globally-recognised activist. Charting her intersex discovery and her journey to self-acceptance, this book portrays how being intersex impacted Kimberly's personal and family life, as well as her career. From uncovering a secret ... Weiterlesen

Chantal Akerman: My Mother Laughs

Chantal Akerman: My Mother Laughs

UK 2019, 230 pp., brochure, € 24.95
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Silver
In 2013, the filmmaker Chantal Akerman's mother was dying. She flew back from New York to care for her, and between dressing her, feeding her and putting her to bed, she wrote. She wrote about her childhood, the escape her mother made from Auschwitz but didn't talk about, the difficulty of loving her girlfriend, C., her fear of what she ... Weiterlesen

Jeff Garvin: Symptoms of Being Human

Jeff Garvin: Symptoms of Being Human

Boy or Girl? Yes. USA 2017, 340 pp., brochure, € 19.95
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Harper Collins
Riley Cavanaugh is many things: Punk rock. Snarky. Rebellious. And gender fluid. Some days Riley identifies as a boy, and others as a girl. But Riley isn't exactly out yet. And between starting a new school and having a congressman father running for reelection in über-conservative Orange County, the pressure - media and otherwise - is building up in Riley's ... Weiterlesen

Michelle Tea: Black Wave

Michelle Tea: Black Wave

USA 2017, 326 pp., pb., € 19.95
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And Other Stories Publishing
It's 1999 in San Francisco, and as shockwaves of gentrification sweep through Michelle's formerly scruffy neighborhood, money troubles, drug-fueled mishaps, and a string of disastrous affairs send her into a tailspin. Desperate to save herself, Michelle sets out to seek a fresh start in Los Angeles. Meanwhile, climate-related disruptions and a string of extinctions are the background noise of impending ... Weiterlesen

Ariel Levy: The Rules Do Not Apply

Ariel Levy: The Rules Do Not Apply

USA 2017, 210 pp., hardbound, € 18.50
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Random House
When 38-year-old New Yorker lesbian writer Ariel Levy left for a reporting trip to Mongolia in 2012, she was pregnant, married, financially secure, and successful on her own terms. A month later, none of that was true. Levy hurls you through the story of how she built an unconventional life and then watched it fall apart with astonishing speed. Like ... Weiterlesen

Caitlyn Jenner: The Secrets of My Life

Caitlyn Jenner: The Secrets of My Life

USA 2017, 336 pp., hardback, € 19.95
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Orion
With poignancy and humour, Caitlyn Jenner, male to female transsexual, writes about her confusion growing up, the temporary triumph of the Olympics as Bruce Jenner, and the noose of being endlessly described as the ultimate in manhood. She reveals her sense of shame and deceit she felt as she got older, as she went to great lengths to tell lies ... Weiterlesen

Cleve Jones: When We Rise

Cleve Jones: When We Rise

Coming of Age in San Francisco, AIDS, and My Life in the Movement. USA 2017, 256 pp., hardback, € 24.95
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Little Brown
This is a personal memoir from a leading figure in the gay rights movement, Cleve Jones. It partially inspired the forthcoming TV mini-series »When We Rise« from Academy Award-winning screenwriter Dustin Lance Black, executive producer Gus Van Sant, and starring Guy Pearce. Longtime LGBTQ and AIDS activist Cleve Jones' memoir is a sweeping, profoundly moving account of his life from ... Weiterlesen

Eileen Myles: Chelsea Girls

Eileen Myles: Chelsea Girls

UK 2016, 274 pp., brochure, € 13.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Serpent´s Tail
In this autobiographical novel, Eileen Myles transforms life into a work of art. Told in anaudacious voice, made vivid and immediate in a lyrical language, »Chelsea Girls« cobbles together memories of Myles' 1960s Catholic upbringing with an alcoholic father, her volatile adolescence, her unabashed »lesbianity«, and her riotous pursuit of survival as a poet in 1970s New York. Suffused with ... Weiterlesen

Michelle Tea: How to Grow up

Michelle Tea: How to Grow up

A Memoir. USA 2015, 287 pp., brochure, € 24.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Penguin USA
As an aspiring young writer in San Francisco, Michelle Tea lived in a scuzzy communal house. She drank, smoked, snorted anything she got her hands on. She dated men and women, and sometimes both at once. But between hangovers and dead-end jobs, she scrawled in notebooks and organized dive bar poetry readings, working to make her literary dreams real. In ... Weiterlesen

Maggie Nelson: The Argonauts

Maggie Nelson: The Argonauts

USA 2016, 180 pp., pb., € 17.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Maggie Nelson's »The Argonauts« is a genre-bending memoir, a work of »autotheory« offering fresh, fierce, and timely thinking about desire, identity, and the limitations and possibilities of love and language. At its center is a romance: the story of the author's relationship with the artist Harry Dodge. This story, which includes Nelson's account of falling in love with Dodge, who ... Weiterlesen

Michael V. Smith: My Body is Yours

Michael V. Smith: My Body is Yours

A Memoir. CAN 2015, 240 pp., brochure, € 17.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Arsenal Pulp Press
The author is a multihyphenate force of nature, a novelist, poet, improv comic, filmmaker, drag queen, performance artist, and occasional clown. In this, his first work of nonfiction, Michael traces his early years as an inadequate male - a fey kid growing up in a small town amid a blue-collar family, a sissy, an insecure teenager desperate to disappear, and ... Weiterlesen

Michelle Theall: Teaching the Cat to Sit

Michelle Theall: Teaching the Cat to Sit

A Memoir. USA 2014, 275 pp., hardbound, € 24.99
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Simon and Schuster
Even when society, friends, the legal system, and the Pope himself swing toward acceptance of the once unacceptable, Michelle Theall still waits for the one blessing that has always mattered to her the most: her mother's. Michelle grew up in the conservative Texas Bible Belt, bullied by her classmates and abandoned by her evangelical best friend before she'd ever even ... Weiterlesen

Rae Spoon and Ivan E. Coyote: Gender Failure

Rae Spoon and Ivan E. Coyote: Gender Failure

CAN 2014, 256 pp. illustrated, brochure, € 27.95
Kostenloser Versand innerhalb Europas.
Arsenal Pulp Press
Ivan E. Coyote and Rae Spoon are accomplished, award-winning writers, musicians, and performers - they are also both admitted »gender failures«. In their first collaborative book, Ivan and Rae explore and expose their failed attempts at fitting into the gender binary, and how ultimately our expectations and assumptions around traditional gender roles fail us all. Based on their acclaimed 2012 ... Weiterlesen

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