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Entertainment Weekly By Katia Hetter In Ali Liebegott’s The IHOP Papers, Francesca, a 20-year-old virgin, deals with coming out (and everything else) by cutting herself. She falls for her philosophy prof, follows her to San Francisco, and competes with a parade of male and female lovers. Fed up with the bi/lesbian drama, she moves out and gets [...] Entertainment Weekly By Katia Hetter Long before tennis star Renée Richards broke ground for transsexuals in the late 1970s, Laura Dillon became a man in the ’40s. Pagan Kennedy’s The First Man-Made Man details the British aristocrat’s transformation. Dillon dressed like a man, took hormones, and underwent 13 operations courtesy of a plastic surgeon who had treated [...] Entertainment Weekly By Katia Hetter High school cheerleader Lois Lenz is torn between make-out sessions with her best friend and a future that includes the local junior college and marriage. Then her new guidance counselor sets her up with a job at a mysterious Bay City ad agency. In Monica Nolan’s send-up of 1950s lesbian pulp novels [...] Entertainment Weekly By Katia Hetter Years before Fidel Castro rose to power, José Antonio Cubeñas beat him up after a high school stickball game – Castro had struck out, then thrown his bat and injured a player. Like many of Castro’s ex-classmates at Colegio de Dolores, one of Cuba’s top Jesuit schools, Cubeñas grew up to fear [...] |
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