In Stagestruck noted novelist and outspoken critic Sarah Schulman offers an account of her growing awareness of the startling similarities between her novel People in Trouble and the smash Broadway hit Rent. Written with a powerful and personal voice, Schulman s book is part gossipy narrative, part behind-the-scenes glimpse into the New York theater culture, and part polemic on how mainstream artists co-opt the work of marginal artists to give an air of diversity and authenticity to their own work. Rising above the details of her own case, Schulman boldly uses her...

It's summer in New York and at the Kitsch-Inn, the girls are hard at work on their lesbian version of A Streetcar Named Desire. As the temperature rises, enter Lila Futuransky, looking for adventure, with her keys in her pocket and a copy of On the Road in her hand.

Hailed as a cri de coeur woven into a utopian vision by Susan Brownmiller (author of Against Our Will), Ties That Bind is the highly praised work of prizewinning writer and professor Sarah Schulman on familial homophobia, a phenomenon that, until now, has not had a name but is nevertheless an integral part of most people s experience. Ties That Bind invites us to understand familial homophobia as a cultural crisis, rather than a personal or an individual problem.
Ambitious, original, and deeply important, Schulman s book draws on her own lived experience, her...

In this chronicle of political awakening and queer solidarity, the activist and novelist Sarah Schulman describes her dawning consciousness of the Palestinian liberation struggle. Invited to Israel to give the keynote address at an LGBT studies conference at Tel Aviv University, Schulman declines, joining other artists and academics honoring the Palestinian call for an academic and cultural boycott of Israel. Anti-occupation activists in the United States, Canada, Israel, and Palestine come together to help organize an alternative solidarity visit for the American activist. Schulman takes us...