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2. "Out for Good"
by Dudley Clendinen and Adam Nagourney
The authors of "Out for Good," both writers for The New York Times, not only drew on extensive archival records but conducted nearly 700 interviews with the founders and opponents of the early gay rights movement. That they have been able to shape this unruly material into a convincing narrative is impressive enough--yet they have also managed to write one of the most dramatic and beautifully structured histories in recent years. Read more

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3. "The Mammoth Book of Lesbian Short Stories"
edited by Emma Donoghue
It's no secret that commercial markets for short stories have been drying up for the past 30 years. This is said to reflect the diminishing readership for short fiction, and, as a result--with the occasional startling exception--book advances are small, reviews scarce, promotion negligible. The prophets of literary doom have more or less ignored gay and lesbian fiction, however, where the short story flourishes among a feisty and increasingly discerning readership. "At the end of the 1990s," notes Emma Donoghue, editor of the "Mammoth Book of Lesbian Short Stories," "the only difficulty in compiling a collection of three decades of superb lesbian stories is that there are so many to choose from." Read more

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4. "Satyricon USA"
by Eurydice
Eurydice takes as her model the Roman writer Petronius, who claimed that his salacious "Satyricon" was "simple realism and nothing more." Her vivid tour of America's sexual underside in the mid-1990s--ranging from suburban sadomasochism to male cross-dressing conferences, from lesbian bloodletting rituals to supersize Texas strip clubs--is only slightly less fantastic than the original "Satyricon," and would be worth reading solely for anthropological interest (or voyeuristic thrill) even if it were not also exceptionally well written, lively, and acute. Read more

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5. "The Vintage Book of International Lesbian Fiction"
edited by Naomi Holoch and Joan Nestle
There are those among us--you know who you are--who tend to avoid lesbian fiction because the genre isn't known for literary excellence. The occasional lesbian mystery or vampire story may slip through as vacation reading, but for something serious, you turn to the poets (Audre Lorde, Adrienne Rich, Jewelle Gomez), or to straight women novelists, or to writers such as Dorothy Allison, whose work transcends the boundaries of lesbian fiction. "The Vintage Book of International Lesbian Fiction" is for readers like you. Read more

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6. "Victorian Sappho"
by Yopie Prins
A remarkable new addition to the fields of gender studies, classical studies, and modern poetics, Yopie Prins's "Victorian Sappho" sends off many casually brilliant sparks, with a broad appeal that easily transcends disciplines. "Invoked as a lyric muse in antiquity and mythologized for posterity by Ovid," Sappho has always been "a figment of the literary imagination." Prins traces the 19th-century recovery of new fragments of Sappho's poems and the allure they held for classical philologists, who attempted to piece together not only her lyrics but her absent, impossible self--the feminine voice and the female body. Read more

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7. "Tipping the Velvet"
by Sarah Waters
The heroine of Sarah Waters's audacious first novel knows her destiny, and seems content with it. Her place is in her father's seaside restaurant, shucking shellfish and stirring soup, singing all the while. At night Nancy Astley often ventures to the nearby music hall, and the moment she spies a new male impersonator--still something of a curiosity in England circa 1888--her years of innocence come to an end and a life of transformations begins. Read more

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8. "Prepare for Saints: Gertrude Stein, Virgil Thomson, and the Mainstreaming of American Modernism"
by Steven Watson
Steven Watson's crisp and accessible work offers both a penetrating reconstruction of the 1934 American productions of Gertrude Stein and Virgil Thomson's modernist opera "Four Saints in Three Acts" and a delightful study of an unprecedented artistic collaboration--involving not only Stein and Thomson, but a large cast of supporting characters. Along the way, Watson illuminates the larger history of modernism in Paris and New York between the wars, as well as many smaller histories, like the growth of museums in America and the influence of high bohemia on the worlds of fashion and design. Read more

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9. "The World and Other Places"
by Jeanette Winterson
English novelist Jeanette Winterson's first short story collection exhibits the multitude of talents that have made her not just admired but beloved by her many fans. There are the surprising, fresh little phrases minted expressly to convey the delicate realities of the made-up world. There's the humor, fierce and sly but always kind. There's the imagination that changes gender and historical epoch at whim, and does so convincingly; and the characters themselves, a sundry bunch of men and women not necessarily successful or commendable but always, somehow, likable. Best of all, by their very diversity, these stories reveal glimpses of the smart and enigmatic woman behind the work. Read more

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10. "Strange Sisters: The Art of Lesbian Pulp Fiction"
by Jaye Zimet
Do you walk alone, a twilight lover? Odd one out? Warped? Troubled? Twisted? Jaye Zimet, a Brooklyn book designer and collector, has brought together over 200 sleazily appealing book covers from the boom years of the lesbian pulp novel, arranging them in groups from "Positive Portraits" and more ambitious "Cliterature" to "Psycho-Babble" and an entire section devoted to cleavage. Read more

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