Product Description: "Written in a voice at once steadfastly bold and gently intimate...Barrington shrewdly and unsentimentally explores the history and geography of her life."--Publishers Weekly¶"Her language is glorious--riveting in the precision of the image to evoke the constellation of sensation and emotion...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Essays, stories, and poems explore the history, meaning, and expression of lesbian sexuality

Provides guidelines for writing memoirs and personal accounts, including tips on telling the truth, writing about living people, and placing a personal story in a larger context.

Recommends twenty walks in Amsterdam and the surrounding area, and describes points of interest along each route (view table of contents)

Provides guidelines for writing memoirs and personal accounts, including tips on telling the truth, writing about living people, and placing a personal story in a larger context. (view table of contents)

Product Description: Praise for History and Geography:"Barrington's history, like Lowell's, is intensely personal; her geography, like Bishop's, extracts the familiar from the exotic and the exotic from the familiar."-The Nation"She engages wittily with cultural differences ...read more

Product Description: The Conversation is Judith Barrington's long meditated dialogue with the many interlocking parts of her life, the record of her sustained career as writer, teacher, activist, and explorer of the heart's mysteries. Judith Barrington is also the author of Lifesaving: A Memoir, winner of the Lambda Book Award and runner up for the PEN/Martha Albrand Award for the memoir...read more