Lee Lynch’s Journey with Lesbian Fiction

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In this episode of Les Do Books, Tara is joined by Lee Lynch, author of the classic lesbian book The Swashbuckler, and one of Tara’s recent favourites, Rainbow Gap. Lee talks about her journey of discovering lesbian literature as a teenager in the 1960s, how she started writing fiction, and the contemporary authors that have her excited.

Check out the books discussed:

The Well of Loneliness by Radclyffe Hall

Erika Frohmann series by Valerie Taylor

Rice and Beans by Valerie Taylor

Sex Variant Women in Literature by Jeannette Foster

Desert of the Heart by Jane Rule

Nightwood by Djuna Barnes

Patience and Sarah by Isabelle Miller

Toothpick House by Lee Lynch

The Member of the Wedding by Carson McCullers

My Antonia by Willa Cather

Stick McLaughlin: The Prohibition Years by Cathy Frizzell

Hoosier Daddy by Ann McMan and Salem West

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