Books like Girls, Visions and Everything

Some thoughts... I enjoyed this a lot. It's more of a series of encounters and experiences rather than a plot-driven story, which I'm fine with, but it means that it's a bit more of a challenging read. The main character talks a lot about(and reads) 'On the Road' and there is a similarity of style between the beat classic and 'Girls, Visions and Everything', except, notably there's no road, there's just New York City in the early 80s and gentrification and a slice of real life and times. Schulman writes in the introduction that she wrote it in response to Jack Kerouac:'I was insisting on the experience of community in the trajectory of popular American heroism and therefore asserting that fiction with primary lesbian content should be recognized as an integral part of American literature. If I could stretch to universalize to Jack Kerouac, then the dominant-culture reader must be able to reciprocate by universalizing me. This last goal has not yet been realized.'which is great and also really interesting...So. I guess it's a sort of lesbian Kerouac (actually, thinking about it it's reminiscent of Jan Kerouac's style in Baby Driver: A Story About Myself which I'm a huge fan of and was written in the early 80s too) and a precursor to some of the writers I love, like Michelle Tea and Eileen Myles.couple of quotes I liked - 'I'm not falling in love until 1990. I refuse to be romantic during the Reagan era.'and 'They tried out a few creative slogans, since slogan writing is second nature to urban lesbians."Cruise People, Not Missiles""More Dykes, No Nukes."'and 'Do you think gay people will ever be safe? Emily asked.'