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Walking with the Muses: A Memoir
Walking with the Muses: A Memoir
Pat Cleveland | 2017 | Biography
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"This is about the incredible life of a creative free spirit who followed her dreams and set in motion a fashion career that’s lasted five decades and counting. This memoir is dishy without being vindictive, and inspirational without being preachy."

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Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
Audre Lorde | 1984 | Fiction & Poetry, Gender Studies, LGBTQ+
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"I grew up in a Christian household thinking there was something abnormal and immoral about queer blacks. My racialized transphobia made Mock’s memoir an agonizing read — just as my racialized homophobia made Lorde’s essays and speeches a challenge. But pain often precedes healing."

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Minor Characters
Minor Characters
Joyce Johnson | 1996 | Biography
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"My mother wrote this memoir about her childhood, her bohemian and Beatnik friends, and her early love affair with Jack Kerouac. She was with him when On the Road came out, and witnessed how his sudden rise to prominence hastened his dissolution."

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