Swimmer Diana Nyad, author of motivational favorite Find a Way and the autobiographical play The Swimmer, has long inspired listeners to push past life’s setbacks and take the courageous plunge towards personal victory. Nyad was the first person to ever swim the daunting 111 miles from Cuba to Florida without the use of a shark cage, an astonishing feat of bravery that thrust her into the limelight and made her an icon of perseverance and grit. This Pride Month, we asked Nyad to share the stories from and about the LGBTQIA+ community that have moved her over the years. She told us: “Stories of lives journeyed down unapologetically bold and forthright roads always grip me. This selection of novels, memoir and biography allows us to spend time with an array of bold and forthright individuals.” Check out Nyad’s Pride month picks below.
''To hear the first volume of Larry Kramer’s epic, audacious, and deeply layered sweep of a novel is our homage to one of America’s consequential activists, with Mr. Kramer passing just this May 27, 2020—and his social commentary of The Plague couldn’t be more timely.''
''A nod to Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway, with three compelling women and their stream-of-consciousness observations over the course of one day…a brilliant work.''
''A riveting tale of hazy gender lines…and a tribute by the feminist author to her lover Vita Sackville-West.''
''One of the powerful minds and intriguing women of modern times—we need to know Susan Sontag, to remember her, to stand in awe of her.''
''A memoir of charm and heartbreak, literally from the Mister Rogers’s neighborhood milieu, of a Southern Christian who does his best to live out his truth. You want to hug François Clemmons minute by minute.''
