Sycamore & Fink Tuesday Dec 2nd, 7 PM
Please join us Tues 12/2 @ 7 PM for
A Reading & Book Party
Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore
&
Jennifer Fink
| "Sycamore kicks mainstream literature in the teeth." —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 four groundbreaking nonfiction anthologies, including Nobody Passes: Rejecting the Rules of Gender and Conformity and That's Revolting! Queer Strategies for Resisting Assimilation. Sycamore writes regularly for a variety of publications, including Bitch, Utne Reader, AlterNet, Make/Shift, the San Francisco Bay Guardian and Maximumrocknroll, and lives in San Francisco. Jennifer Natalya Fink is the spawn of a yeast geneticist and modern dancer. Her family's roots are in Sao Paulo, Brazil, where she is distantly related to the "Brazilian Picasso," Lasar Segall, and in the Pale of Settlement, where she is intimately related to failed opera singers, successful socialists, and Gracie Allen. She was born in 1966 in Washington, DC, where she is currently Assistant Professor of English at Georgetown University, but her childhood was spent in Ithaca, New York. Her father is a yeast geneticist, which involved much home brewing of beer and recombining of DNA. Her mother, a transplanted Julliard-trained dancer,, taught special ed. in a high school with cows in the front yard, and went on to earn a Ph.D. from Harvard, and write books about successful dyslexics. Her sister is a feminist Orthodox Jewish lawyer. Paradox runs in the family. |
