Lynn Breedlove
Rave review for Lynn Breedlove's debut novel, Godspeed, which chronicles the adventures of a butch lesbian bicycle messenger in San Francisco. "Godspeed is sure to burnish the reputation Breedlove has earned as a guitar god in the ferocious grrrl group Tribe 8 and as a luminary in the local spoken-word scene. You'll see every third girl on the street reading this book within the next month, so get ready." Reviewer Dodie Bellamy calls the book "intensely smart and funny" and Breedlove's prose style "as vibrant and in the moment as Kerouac's 'spontaneous bop prosody.'" (Link snagged from Pursed Lips.) (May 2002)
Lynn Breedlove talks about writing Godspeed. "It started out as a cathartic exercise. That's why there's a lot of what looks like gratuitous drug use in the beginning. That was just me letting it go, admitting that although I knew drugs almost killed me, there were parts that I would really miss. So it was a dear john letter, a good-bye to a bad lover letter. I get nervous that kids will look at that and think it's cool, but I can't afford to be didactic. Good writing comes from a deep need to purge something, and editing out all the parts that might be dangerous to society makes for bland prime time TV." (Jun 2002)
Good Salon piece about Lynn Breedlove and her first novel, Godspeed. (Aug 2002)
