So Many Ways to Sleep Badly

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2008
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Sycamore kicks mainstream literature in the teeth. -The San Francisco Bay Guardian Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore's exhilarating new novel is about struggling to find hope in the ruins of everyday San Francisco-battling roaches, Bikram Yoga, chronically bad sex, NPR, internet cruising, tweakers, the cops, $100 bills, chronic pain, the gay vote, vegan restaurants, and incest, with the help of air-raid sirens, herbal medicine, late-night epiphanies, sea lions, and sleeping pills. So Many Ways to Sleep Badly unveils a gender-bending queer world where nothing flows smoothly, except for those sudden moments when everything becomes lighter or brighter or easier to imagine. Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore is the gender-bending author of the highly praised novel Pulling Taffy and the editor of the anthology Nobody Passes: Rejecting the Rules of Gender and Conformity. Sycamore writes regularly for a variety of publications, including Bitch, Utne Reader, AlterNet, Make/Shift, and MaximumRocknRoll.

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Sycamore kicks mainstream literature in the teeth. -The San Francisco Bay Guardian Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore's exhilarating new novel is about struggling to find hope in the ruins of everyday San Francisco-battling roaches, Bikram Yoga, chronically bad sex, NPR, internet cruising, tweakers, the cops, $100 bills, chronic pain, the gay vote, vegan restaurants, and incest, with the help of air-raid sirens, herbal medicine, late-night epiphanies, sea lions, and sleeping pills. So Many Ways to Sleep Badly unveils a gender-bending queer world where nothing flows smoothly, except for those sudden moments when everything becomes lighter or brighter or easier to imagine. Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore is the gender-bending author of the highly praised novel Pulling Taffy and the editor of the anthology Nobody Passes: Rejecting the Rules of Gender and Conformity. Sycamore writes regularly for a variety of publications, including Bitch, Utne Reader, AlterNet, Make/Shift, and MaximumRocknRoll.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 256
Publisher: City Lights Books
Published: 01 Oct 2008
ISBN 10: 0872864685
ISBN 13: 9780872864689
Book Overview: An extensive tour of the US is planned with stops at independent bookstores, college campuses and community centers. Mattilda has been invited to take part in panels and events at numerous universities including Yale, Brown University, U of Chicago, Wesleyan, New York University, UCLA, and Georgetown, as well as speaking at activist conferences and tiny niche bookstores to packed crowds. Mattilda has a huge online blog presence and fan base, and appeals to audiences across many lines-- academic, mainstream, fringe. Outreach to GLBQT print/radio/web media and mainstream media including the following, where Mattilda has already been reviewed or featured-- San Francisco Bay Guardian Bitch Magazine make/shift Maximumrocknroll Lambda Book Report Gay and Lesbian Review Gender studies catalog

Media Reviews

Utne Reader, San Francisco Bay Guardian, Village Voice, San Francisco Chronicle

Author Bio

Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore is the author of the novel, Pulling Taffy, and the editor of four nonfiction anthologies, including Nobody Passes: Rejecting the Rules of Gender and Conformity and That's Revoling! Queer Strategies for Resisting Assimilation. Sycamore writes regularly for a variety of publications, including Bitch, Utne Reader, AlterNet, Make/Shift, and Maximumrocknroll. She lives in San Francisco.