The Autobiography of H. Lan Thao Lam

Dorothy, a publishing project, 2025

In her 1933 The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, Gertrude Stein invented a new literary form by narrating her own story from the perspective of her partner, blurring the lines between portrait and self-portrait. Almost a century later, artist and filmmaker Lana Lin has resurrected Stein’s project to tell a different story of queer love, life, and artistic collaboration. Situated between memoir, social criticism, and conceptual art, The Autobiography of H. Lan Thao Lam is an incisive response to a modernist classic and an affecting exploration of the poetics and politics of our times.