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  • Date: November 19
  • Time: 7:00pm - 7:00pm PT

Book Launch: The Freezer Door by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore

Join us to launch Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore’s newest book, The Freezer Door, a meditation on the trauma and possibility of searching for connection in a world that enforces bland norms of gender, sexual, and social conformity. Sycamore will be joined in conversation by memoirist Elissa Washuta, author of White Magic and My Body Is a Book of Rules.

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About the Book

book cover The Freezer Door by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore

The Freezer Door records the ebb and flow of desire in daily life. Crossing through loneliness in search of communal pleasure in Seattle, Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore exposes the failure and persistence of queer dreams, the hypocritical allure of gay male sexual culture, and the stranglehold of the suburban imagination over city life.

Ferocious and tender, The Freezer Door offers a complex meditation on the trauma and possibility of searching for connection in a world that relentlessly enforces bland norms of gender, sexual, and social conformity while claiming to celebrate diversity.


About the Author

Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore is the author of three novels and a memoir, and the editor of five nonfiction anthologies. Her memoir, The End of San Francisco, won a Lambda Literary Award, and her anthology, Why Are Faggots So Afraid of Faggots?: Flaming Challenges to Masculinity, Objectification, and the Desire to Conform, was an American Library Association Stonewall Honor Book. Her latest title, the novel Sketchtasy, was one of NPR’s Best Books of 2018. She is currently at work on a new anthology, Between Certain Death and a Possible Future: Queer Writing on Growing up with the AIDS Crisis, and her next book, The Freezer Door, a lyric essay on desire and its impossibility, set in Seattle, will be out in the fall.