The New Fuck You: Adventures in Lesbian Reading (Semiotext(e) / Native Agents)
An anthology centered on lesbian culture and reading. It brings together short essays, criticism, and experimental writing to show reading as both pleasure and politics.
Work Information
It foregrounds both the pleasure and the critical force of reading.
This anthology gathers multiple writers to expand the meaning of reading within lesbian culture. The editorial perspective itself connects the book to magazine culture and the history of criticism.
Book Information
- Publisher
- Semiotext
- Published
- 1995-06-01
- Pages
- 320 pages
- Language
- 英語
- Size
- 11.4 x 1.7 x 17.6 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9781570270574
- ISBN-10
- 1570270570
- Price
- 2695 JPY
- Category
- 洋書/Politics & Social Sciences/Social Sciences/Specific Demographics/Gay & Lesbian
A unique and provocative anthology of lesbian writing, guaranteed to soothe the soulful and savage the soulless. Includes Adele Bertei, Holly Hughes, Sapphire, Laurie Weeks, and many more. Borrowing its name from the notorious '60s Ed Sanders magazine, Fuck You: A Magazine of the Arts, the editors have figured a way to rehone its countercultural and frictional stance with style and aplomb. A unique and provocative anthology of lesbian writing, guaranteed to soothe the soulful and savage the soulless. Includes Adele Bertei, Holly Hughes, Sapphire, Laurie Weeks, and many more.
Eileen Myles, named by BUST magazine "the rock star of modern poetry," is the author of more than twenty books of poetry and prose, including Chelsea Girls, Cool for You, Sorry, Tree, and Not Me (Semiotext(e), 1991), and is the coeditor of The New Fuck You (Semiotext(e), 1995). Myles was head of the writing program at University of California, San Diego, from 2002 to 2007, and she has written extensively on art and writing and the cultural scene. Most recently, she received a fellowship from the Andy Warhol/Creative Capital Foundation. Liz Kotz teaches in the Art History Department at the University of California, Riverside. Dodie Bellamy is an American novelist, nonfiction author, journalist, and editor.
Reviews
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Probably good for late teens early 20’s Which I am not. The Not that interesting except for 2 essays and a couple of poems