mattilda bernstein sycamore
| Occupation | Writer/editor/activist/troublemaker |
|---|---|
| Location | San Francisco, California, United States |
| Introduction | My first memoir, THE END OF SAN FRANCISCO, (City Lights 2013) is out now!!! *** My latest anthology, WHY ARE FAGGOTS SO AFRAID OF FAGGOTS?: Flaming Challenges to Masculinity, Objectification, and the Desire to Conform (AK Press 2012) *** My latest novel: SO MANY WAYS TO SLEEP BADLY (City Lights 2008) *** My other recent anthologies: the expanded second edition of THAT'S REVOLTING! Queer Strategies for Resisting Assimilation (Soft Skull 2008) *** NOBODY PASSES: Rejecting the Rules of Gender and Conformity (Seal Press 2007) *** My previous novel: PULLING TAFFY (Suspect Thoughts 2003) *** My previous anthologies: DANGEROUS FAMILIES: Queer Writing on Surviving (Haworth 2004) *** TRICKS AND TREATS: Sex Workers Write about Their Clients (Haworth 2000, Italian version Effepi Libri 2007) |
| Favorite movies | Goodbye Dragon Inn, What Time Is It There, Safe, Through the Olive Trees, A Moment of Innocence, Fireworks, Meshes of the Afternoon, The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, Celebration |
| Favorite music | Devastation Runway, Knock-You-Down House, Clack-clack-a-clack, air raid sirens, that layered magic that almost kills you, horns, skips, Kid Koala, Nina Simone |
| Favorite books | Close to the Knives, Memories That Smell like Gasoline, Gifts of the Body, The Dogs, Working Toward Whiteness, Margery Kempe, Stagestruck, Troubled by His Complexion, Life Sentences: Writers Artists and AIDS, Walking Through Clear Water in a Pool Painted Black, Ferocious Romance, Beauty Talk & Monsters, V (Jennifer Natalya Fink), Times Square Red Times Square Blue, Wild Animals I Have Known, The Zombie Pit, Once You Go Back, Inferno (Eileen Myles) |