Works by
Kate Clinton
(Writer)
[1947 - ]

Climate Change (2008)

The Marrying Kind (2004, Live)

Read These Lips (2001, Live)

Comedy You Can Dance To (1998, Live)
Explicit lyrics

Babes in Joyland (1991, Live)

Babes in Joyland (1994)

Making Light! (Date?)
Vinyl

I Told You So (May 1, 2009)
I Told You So is a hilarious, bittersweet, and politically acute survival guide. In collected columns and routines, Kate Clinton gleefully details personal coping techniques tested over a lifetime. They're perfectly suited for political and cultural upheaval: wildcatting for democracy, curbing your cynicism, and changing the climate. Read them and you'll never be voted off the island.

Clinton's new collection spans refreshingly disparate topics: sexual hypocrisy and gay marriage; girls gone wild and boys gone to war; Hillary Clinton and U.S. politics; Obama props and prop hates; baptism and waterboarding, as well as intelligent design, families of choice, and even bee colony collapses. With intriguing titles such as "The Sistine Shusher," "Lights out on Bush," and "The Closet and the Confessional," the essays in the book are classic Clinton -- provocative, thoughtful, and edgy.

As a humorist for over twenty-five years, Clinton believes that making light -- light enough to see and light enough to move --is what sustains us. What unites the essays is a Möbius strip of humor intended not to dissipate outrage but rather to motivate action.

What the L (2005)
What the L? is a new collection of published and unpublished writings that showcases Kate Clinton’s gifts as one of the all-time favorite lesbian comics. Like Ellen DeGeneres and Rosie O’Donnell, Clinton is a nationally acclaimed quick-witted, laugh-out-loud funny comic whose hilarious takes on everything from gay marriage ("mad vow disease") and Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, to gay Republicans and the War on Terrorism have earned her a devoted following. She has appeared on many television programs, including Good Morning America, Nightline, Entertainment Tonight, and writes monthly columns for Progressive and the Advocate.

Don't Get Me Started (1998)
Let's get one thing straight. I'm not. I'm out and proud. When I'm out and it's raining I carry an umbrella. I used to be in but I hate the smell of mothballs. My closet was huge, complete with a foyer, turnstile, a few dead bolts, and a burglar alarm that had to be deactivated before I could even touch the door handle. And then there was the storm door. It wasn't until I had lived and slept with a woman for a year that it occurred to me to ask, "Do you think we're lesbians?" By the way, never come out to your father in a moving vehicle.

Now I've written a book. It's not as easy as it looks. One night, I was working late on my computer when a little message came up on the screen, "You are almost out of memory." Here are my thoughts and observations on everything from gay marriage (Mad Vow Disease) to my morbid fear of mascots (with the exception of the San Diego Chicken). That's all I'm going to say because I don't want to spoil it for you. That's a job for Jesse Helms.

A Memory, a Monologue, a Rant, and a Prayer (2007)
Selections from the “Until the Violence Stops” Festival

Featuring writings by Abiola Abrams, Alice Walker , Anna Deavere Smith, Ariel Dorfman, Betty Gale Tyson, Carol Gilligan, Carol Michèle Kaplan, Christine House, Dave Eggers, Deena Metzger, Diana Son, Edward Albee, Edwidge Danticat, Elizabeth Lesser, Erin Cressida Wilson, Eve Ensler, Hanan al-Shaykh, Howard Zinn, James Lecesne, Jane Fonda, Jody Williams, Jyllian Gunther,  Kate Clinton, Kathy Engel, Kathy Najimy, Kimberle Crenshaw, Lynn Nottage, Marie Howe, Mark Matousek, Maya Angelou, Michael Cunningham, Michael Eric Dyson, Michael Klein, Moises Kaufman, Mollie Doyle, Monica Szlekovics, Nicholas Kristof, Nicole Burdette, Patricia Bosworth, Periel Aschenbrand, Robert Thurman, Robin Morgan, Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy, Sharon Olds, Slavenka Drakulic, Suheir Hammad, Susan Miller, Susan Minot, Tariq Ali, and Winter Miller.

This groundbreaking collection, edited by author and playwright Eve Ensler, features pieces from “Until the Violence Stops,” the international tour that brings the issue of violence against women and girls to the forefront of our consciousness. These diverse voices rise up in a collective roar to break open, expose, and examine the insidiousness of brutality, neglect, a punch, or a put-down. Here is Edward Albee on S&M; Maya Angelou on women’s work; Michael Cunningham on self-mutilation; Dave Eggers on a Sudanese  abduction; Carol Gilligan on a daughter witnessing her mother being hit; Susan Miller on raising a son as a single mother; and Sharon Olds on a bra.

These writings are inspired, funny, angry, heartfelt, tragic, and beautiful. But above all, together they create a true and profound portrait of this issue’s effect on every one of us. With information on how to organize an “Until the Violence Stops” event in your community, A Memory, a Monologue, a Rant, and a Prayer is a call to the world to demand an end to violence against women.

The Latecomer (1974, 2009) by Sarah Aldridge with Fay Jacobs, ed.
This is the 35th Anniversary edition of the first book ever published by Naiad Press. This book was released in 1974 - and was one of, if not the first lesbian novel to have a happy ending and promise of a viable future for the two protagonists. In this edition, there are comments from contemporaries of author Sarah Aldridge (Anyda Marchant) like Ann Bannon,  Cris Williamson, Holly Near, Jinx Beers, Katherine  Forrest, and more, plus later novelists and activists weighing in on the history of lesbian publishing and a glimpse of what these first, hopeful books meant to these readers and writers. They include Ellen Hart, J.M. Redmann, KG MacGregor, Kate Clinton, Radclyffe, and many more. This book also includes photographs of the author from that time period and a call to writers and readers to contribute to the lesbian/feminist publishing legacy.

The Latecomer tells of Philippa, returning by ship from Europe, who finds her life unexpectedly changed by the woman who shares her cabin -an entertainer whose career contrasts vividly with Philippa's own existence. From Washington DC and its political intrigue to New York City, the women keep encountering one another until they recognize what their love means to them and their future.