‘Marbles: Mania, Depression, Michelangelo, & Me’ by Ellen Forney
An association between artistic creativity and mental illness is something many of us take for granted without questioning which came first or why the two should be linked. In her new graphic memoir, cartoonist Ellen Forney tackles that question in light of its impact on her work as an artist with Bipolar I Disorder.
‘All We Know’ by Lisa Cohen
Lisa Cohen’s lush biography, All We Know (Farrar Straus and Giroux), is a staggering labor of love that offers a triptych of three women of a queer persuasion. Cohen sets this story in the early 20th century, giving her audience a catalogue of the largely forgotten life during that time. Her subjects–the great intellectual Esther Murphy, the celebrity connoisseur Mercedes de Acosta, and the fashion maverick Madge Garland…
‘Small Fires’ by Julie Marie Wade
In Small Fires, Julie Marie Wade, who won a Lambda for her memoir Wishbone, considers family and memory with a poetic eye and unabashed tongue. With her carefully chosen words and a studied deliberateness, Wade proves unafraid to delve into her past—to skillfully reconstruct the events of her youth, from the horrifying to the sentimental to the self-conscious and beyond.
21st Annual Lambda Literary Awards
LGBT Anthologies | LGBT Childrens/Young
20th Annual Lambda Literary Awards
LGBT Anthology | LGBT Childrens/Young
19th Annual Lambda Literary Awards
LGBT Anthology | LGBT Childrens/Young
17th Annual Lambda Literary Awards
ANTHOLOGIES/FICTION WINNER: Fresh Men: New
18th Annual Lambda Literary Awards
Anthologies WINNER: Freedom in this
15th Annual Lambda Literary Awards
Anthologies/Fiction WINNER: Black Like Us
14th Annual Lambda Literary Awards
Anthologies/Fiction WINNER: Diva Book of