Against Memoir: Complaints, Confessions & Criticisms

Against Memoir: Complaints, Confessions & Criticisms - Paperback

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Against Memoir: Complaints, Confessions & Criticisms - Paperback

Against Memoir: Complaints, Confessions & Criticisms - Paperback

by Michelle Tea
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The PEN Award-winning essay collection about queer lives: "Gorgeously punk-rock rebellious."--The A.V. Club


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 lives, Michelle Tea also reveals herself in unexpected and heartbreaking ways.


Delivered with her signature honesty and dark humor, Tea 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 extent to which art preys on life.
ISBN9781936932184
Author Michelle Tea
PublisherAmethyst Editions
GenreBiography and Literature
FormatPaperback
PublishedMay 2018
LanguageENG- English
Pages300
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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Against Memoir: Complaints, Confessions & Criticisms - Paperback

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About Michelle Tea

Michelle Tea is the author of over twenty books of fiction, memoir, poetry and children's literature. Her autofiction Valencia, a cult classic, won the Lambda Literary Award for Best Fiction. Her essay collection Against Memoir was awarded the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for The Art of the Essay. Tea is also the recipient of awards from the Rona Jaffe Foundation and the Guggenheim Foundation. The founder of Drag Queen Story Hour, she has received honors from the American Library Association and Logo Television. Tea curated the Sister Spit Books series at City Lights Publishers and founded the ongoing imprint Amethyst Edition at the Feminist Press.

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