Winner of the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay "Eclectic and wide-ranging. . . . A palpable pain animates many of these essays, as well as a raucous joy and bright curiosity." --The New York Times "Gorgeously punk-rock rebellious." --The A.V. Club "The best essay collection I've read in years." --The New Republic 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.
This is Michelle Tea's second book on our Amethyst Editions imprint, and the fourth book on the imprint overall. The Feminist Press has had a lot of success working on Black Wave, and we consistently push the imprint on social media and at any conference, festival, or other presentation as the most exciting part of our publishing program. Although most of the collection has been previously published or performed, this is the first collection of Michelle Tea's mutl-subject essays (not narrative memoir) and will be unfamiliar to all but die-hard fans. The book will have French flaps and deckled edges
This is Michelle Tea's second book on our Amethyst Editions imprint, and the fourth book on the imprint overall. The Feminist Press has had a lot of success working on Black Wave, and we consistently push the imprint on social media and at any conference, festival, or other presentation as the most exciting part of our publishing program. Although most of the collection has been previously published or performed, this is the first collection of Michelle Tea's mutl-subject essays (not narrative memoir) and will be unfamiliar to all but die-hard fans. The book will have French flaps and deckled edges
This is Michelle Tea's second book on our Amethyst Editions imprint, and the fourth book on the imprint overall. T