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Michelle Tea
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Michelle Tea is the author of five memoirs: The Passionate Mistakes and Intricate Corruption of One Girl in America, Valencia, The Chelsea Whistle, Rent Girl, and How to Grow Up (Penguin/Plume). Her novels include Mermaid in Chelsea Creek and Girl at the Bottom of the Sea, part of a YA fantasy trilogy published by McSweeney's, and Rose of No Man’s Land. Black Wave is a dystopic memoir-fiction hybrid. Forthcoming works include Castle on the River Vistula, the final installment of the YA series, and Modern Tarot, a tarot how-to and spell book published by Harper Elixir. Tea is the curator of the Amethyst Editions imprint at Feminist Press. She founded the literary non-profit RADAR Productions and the international Sister Spit performance tours, and is the former editor of Sister Spit Books, an imprint of City Lights. She created Mutha Magazine, an online publication about real-life parenting.
What to Read When You Need to Understand How to Live
Michelle Tea shares a reading list in celebration of her forthcoming book, Against Memoir, out May 8 from Amethyst Editions/The Feminist Press.
The Last Book I Loved: The Braindead Megaphone
I think I would maybe like to be George Saunders.
Letter from Paris, Parts 11–12: The Final Chapters
I love Paris. I love Paris I love Paris I love Paris.
Letter from Paris, Part 9: Now, Here Was Paris
We pass a well, a perfectly round mouth in the stone where all this blue water spills out.
Letter from Paris, Part 8: Nazis in the Catacombs
The water isn’t as cold as I’d imagined, and it isn’t dirty.
Letters from Paris, Part 7: Goodbye to Sex in the Catacombs
We walk the Parisian streets until we reach Kay’s car, parked on a residential corner near the fence we’ll be climbing.
Letters from Paris, Part 6: We Won’t Be Entering via Manholes Tonight
Oh well. C’est La Vie, I say brightly, always thrilled to remember something French.
Letter from Paris, Part 5: No One Sleeps Alone, Okay?
If anyone gets up to sleep in the other room, someone has to go with them. No one sleeps alone, okay? Judy declares.
Letter from Paris, Part 4: We Would Like to Have a Sex Party
You’re going to fuck a Christmas tree tonight! Judy cheers.
Letter from Paris, Part 3: Kissing on Furniture
After kissing on furniture I later learn from Wet is intensely germ-ridden, I followed Antoine up the curving, wrought-iron staircase and out into the street.