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Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore in Conversation With Sara Jaffe
February 11, 2019 @ 7:30 pm - 8:30 pm
FreeMattilda Bernstein Sycamore’s Sketchtasy (Arsenal Pulp) takes place in that late-night moment when everything comes together, and everything falls apart – it’s an urgent, glittering, devastating novel about the perils of queer world-making in the mid-’90s. Boston, 1995: Alexa, an incisive 21-year-old queen, faces everyday brutality with determined nonchalance. Rejecting middle-class pretensions, she negotiates past and present traumas with a scathing critique of the world. Drawn to the ecstasy of drugged-out escapades, Alexa searches for nourishment in a gay culture bonded by clubs and conformity, willful apathy, and the specter of AIDS. With an intoxicating voice and unruly cadence, Sketchtasy is an incandescent novel that conjures the pain and pageantry of struggling to imagine a future. Sycamore will be joined in conversation by Sara Jaffe, author of Dryland.