Michelle Tea

Against Memoir: Complaints, Confessions & Criticisms

Feminist Press

A doomed lesbian biker gang, recovering alcoholics, and teenagers barely surviving at an ice creamery: these are some of the larger-than-life, yet all-too-human figures populating Against Memoir, Tea’s first-ever collection of journalistic writing. As she blurs the line between telling other people’s stories and her own, she turns an investigative eye to the genre that’s nurtured her entire career―memoir―and considers the price that art demands be paid from life. Michelle Tea is the author of numerous books, including Black Wave, Valencia, and How to Grow Up.