{"product_id":"girls-visions-and-everything-9781580050227","title":"Girls, Visions and Everything","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom the prizewinning author of \u003ci\u003eLet the Record Show\u003c\/i\u003e, a \"wry and playful\" (\u003ci\u003eOut\u003c\/i\u003e) novel of lesbian sex, politics, and art in 1980s downtown New York.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e It's summer in New York City and the streets are sizzling. Below 14th Street the girls at the Kitsch-Inn are hard at work on their new lesbian version of \u003ci\u003eA Streetcar Named Desire\u003c\/i\u003e. As the temperature rises, lesbian-at-large Lila Futuransky is looking for adventure, with her keys in her pocket and a copy of \u003ci\u003eOn the Road\u003c\/i\u003e in her hand. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e A fast-paced, spirited romp through politics and sexuality, \u003ci\u003eGirls, Visions and Everything\u003c\/i\u003e offers a funny, affectionate portrait of a group of struggling young artists trying to find meaning in their changing world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSarah Schulman\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of more than twenty works of fiction (including \u003ci\u003eThe Cosmopolitans\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eRat Bohemia\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eMaggie Terry\u003c\/i\u003e), nonfiction (including \u003ci\u003eStagestruck\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eConflict is Not Abuse\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Gentrification of the Mind\u003c\/i\u003e), and theater (\u003ci\u003eCarson McCullers\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eManic Flight Reaction\u003c\/i\u003e, and more), and the producer and screenwriter of several feature films (\u003ci\u003eThe Owls\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMommy Is Coming\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eUnited in Anger\u003c\/i\u003e, among others). Her writing has appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSlate\u003c\/i\u003e, and many other outlets. She is a Distinguished Professor of Humanities at College of Staten Island, a Fellow at the New York Institute of Humanities, the recipient of multiple fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, Yaddo, and the New York Foundation for the Arts, and was presented in 2018 with Publishing Triangle's Bill Whitehead Award. She is also the cofounder of the MIX New York LGBT Experimental Film and Video Festival, and the co-director of the groundbreaking ACT UP Oral History Project. A lifelong New Yorker, she is a longtime activist for queer rights and female empowerment, and serves on the advisory board of Jewish Voice for Peace.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Seal Press (CA)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50670880391442,"sku":"9781580050227","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_17d90bc8-eafd-496e-ae62-36408629ec93.jpg?v=1733790600","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/girls-visions-and-everything-9781580050227","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}