Ariel Gore's Books
May.01.2013
Everything from Christian fundamentalist rapture predictions to environmentalist utopian visions is included in this unique collection of writings about the end of the world. This anthology features luminaries such as Derrick Jensen and Tomas Moniz as well as emerging writers. It also provides practical tips on raising chickens, hoarding grain, stockpiling firearms, learning...
May.05.2009
At once a love letter to the Rose City and a dream of escape, the first-person narratives of Portland Queer reveal the contradictions and commonalities of life in one of the world’s great queer meccas. A waiter falls in love with a straight guy from the café next door. A young dyke discovers gay karaoke at the Silverado. A pregnant man prepares for new life transitions. An...
Jan.19.2009
CAN A WOMAN BE SMART, EMPOWERED, AND HAPPY?
Happiness has become a serious business. Where twentiethcentury psychology focused on depression and illness, in the new millennium scientists have begun focusing on “positive psychology”—the study of happiness. Ariel Gore first became intrigued by this subject when she discovered that Positive Psychology was the most popular course on...
May.02.2006
The Traveling Death and Resurrection Show is Ariel's novel about a Catholic-themed traveling freak show. With lots of saint lore. Gayle Brandeis says "This novel is a miracle--deliciously subversive and deeply spiritual."
Nov.18.2005
26 Short Memoirs by Portland Writers We are doctors, waitresses, housewives, and punks; grandmothers, rockstars, and runaways. We're third generation Northwesterners or we've only just arrived. We complain about the rain, but we don't seem to mind it that much. We drink a lot of coffee and beer. We've been telling stories, in one way or another, for as long as we can remember....
Oct.11.2004
It’s been over a decade since Ariel Gore, in a caffeine-induced brainstorm, invented Hip Mama as her senior project in college. The zine that has grown up alongside Gore’s daughter, has covered subjects from weaning to home schooling with a political edge and a puckish sense of humor. The Essential Hip Mama captures the heart of a decade’s worth of earthy, honest, soulful parenting...
Mar.04.2004
Whatever, Mom is written by Ariel with excellent essays by daughter Maia Swift (including her delicious "Eight Most Embarrassing Things About My Mother")
May.01.2001
Breeder: Real-Life Stories from the New Generation of Mothers is the groundbreaking Gen X collection edited by Ariel Gore and Bee Lavender.
Mar.22.2000
The Mother Trip: Hip Mama's Guide to Staying Sane in the Chaos of Motherhood is Ariel's classic on, well, staying sane. Harriet Lerner called it "Brave, wise, and absolutely original."
About Ariel
Born on the Monterey Peninsula and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area, Ariel Gore spent the years she was supposed to be in high school as an international bag lady traveling through Asia and Europe and returned to California at age 19, baby in tow....
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