Memoir

Ten books for $20: Serious Spring Cleaning Superpack (April 17-25 only)

by Joe Biel, Bill Brown, Kaycee Eckhardt, Anne Elizabeth Moore and 4 more

Construction continues here at Microcosm HQ. You helped us move a bunch of books out of the middle of the floor during ...

21 Years of Good Trouble: The Microcosm Publishing Sampler

by Julia Alekseyeva, Lee Baillie, Alexander Barrett, Nate Beaty and 33 more

To celebrate our twenty first anniversary, we put together this compilation of work from our authors and artists, ...

Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic

by Alison Bechdel

Alison Bechdel's autobiographical graphic novel-turned-musical (which, by the way, won the 2015 Tony Award for Best ...

Kool Man: The King of Oral Love

by Sean Tejeratchi

This zine, by Sean Tejeratchi of Craphound fame, was a result of zinester Robert Dupree (Subliminal Tattoos) striking a ...

$20 Superpack: Young, Punk, and Queer Comics

by Lee Baillie, Nicole Georges, Cristy Road, Super Pack! and 0 more

You're not the only one. These stories of gay, lesbian, and queer folks in their teens and twenties making their way in ...

Parecon: Life After Capitalism

by Michael Albert

"What do you want?" is a constant query put to economic and globalization activists. In yet another volume, Albert ...

$20 Superpack: Love, Loss, & Zines with Katie Haegele

by Katie Haegele and Super Pack!

What's better than a Katie Haegele book? We've now published three of her poignant, lyrical, down-to-earth works about, ...

Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant?

by Roz Chast

Roz Chast will make you laugh-cry in Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant?, her first memoir about living ...

Down and Out in Paris and London

by George Orwell

This is George Orwell's first full book. The first part is an account of his days starving in Paris and then working in ...

Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory

by Caitlin Doughty

Most people want to avoid thinking about death, but Caitlin Doughty--a twenty-something with a degree in medieval ...

Rebellious Mourning: The Collective Work of Grief

by Cindy Milstein

"This intimate, moving, and timely collection of essays points the way to a world in which the burden of grief is ...

Kafka

by Robert Crumb and David Zane Mairowitz

This brief but inclusive biography of Franz Kafka and summary of many of his works, all illustrated by Crumb, helps ...

Cautionary Tales of Childhood

by Bee Lavender and Gabriel Liston

Some say that family is all that matters, that family always comes first. But not all families are created equal, and ...

It All Turns on Affection: The Jefferson Lecture and Other Essays

by Wendell Berry

When he accepted the invitation to deliver The Jefferson Lecture—our nation’s highest honor for distinguished ...

The Girl Who Thought in Pictures: The Story of Dr. Temple Grandin

 The Girl Who Thought in Pictures: The Story of Dr. Temple Grandin is a biography of Temple, one of the most ...

Notes from the Velvet Underground: The Life of Lou Reed

by Howard Sounes

Notes from the Velvet Underground is a portrait of Lou Reed, a rock 'n' roll legend that wrote and sang about his life, ...

Stealing the Show: How Women are Revolutionizing Television

by Roseanne Barr, Lena Dunham, Diane English, Ilana Glazer and 7 more

Sharp, witty, striking. Joy Press celebrates women power through film and television outlets in Stealing the Show. From ...

Bessie Stringfield: Tales of the Talented Tenth, no. 2

by Joel Christian Gill

Tales of the Talented Tenth is a series that focuses on Black History in action, bringing to life incredible stories of ...

Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More

by Janet Mock

Redefining Realness is a raw and honest look at living a trans experience and what it's like to fight to define ...

$20 Superpack: Small Little Books

by Bill Brown, Al Burian, Jesse Reklaw, Sarah Royal and 0 more

Books are getting bigger and bigger in a sort of publishing arms race lately. Not ours! We tend to make smaller books ...

Stuck in the Middle With You

by Jennifer Finney Boylan

 Stuck in the Middle With You is a trans memoir about what it's like to transition as a parent. Jenny explores the ...

Tomorrow Will Be Different: Love, Loss, and the Fight for Trans Equality

by Joe Biden and Sarah McBride

 Sarah McBride urges: "We must never be a country that says there's only one way to love, only one way to look, ...

Trans: A Memoir

A journey into Juliet Jacques's tale of gender transition, her story takes on aspects both personal and political in ...

Is This Guy For Real?: The Unbelievable Andy Kaufman

by Box Brown

With distinct visual styling, Box Brown depicts the life Andy Kaufman chose to live as an accomplished performer in Is ...

Man Alive: A True Story of Violence, Forgiveness and Becoming a Man

by Thomas Page McBee

This memoir is gripping tale of survival and hope. When Thomas decides to transition from female-to-male, he begins by ...

Being Jazz: My Life as a (Transgender) Teen

by Jazz Jennings

Teen advocate Jazz Jennings shares her transgender journey in this moving memoir, inspiring people to embrace their own ...

Born Both: An Intersex Life

by Hida Viloria

Hida Viloria was raised as a girl but discovered early on that their body was different. When they were twenty-six they ...

The New Girl: A Trans Girl Tells It Like It Is

by Rhyannon Styles

Journalist. Performance artist. Musician. Celebrity. Cabaret drag shows. Parisian clown school. Addiction. Crippling ...

Buckminster Fuller: Poet of Geometry

by Cole Gerst

This lovely book is the illustrated life story of 20th century inventor and utopian visionary, Buckminster ...

Nick Cave: Mercy on Me

Musician, novelist, poet, actor: Nick Cave (b. 1957) is a Renaissance man. His wide-ranging artistic output—always ...