During every week this Pride Month, we’ll ask one of our contrubutors to compile a list of essential queer works of art. We start with books.
My death plan includes being cremated with a copy of this book. I first encountered this graphic novel as an undergrad out in Iowa, and I reread it every January—it’s literature that grows with me, mostly because of Alison Bechdel’s delicate recollection of her late father, who lived his life in the closet, and the hesitant empathy she holds for him.
The Rules Do Not Apply: A Memoir by Ariel Levy
