Mattilda’s new book, TOUCHING THE ART, is out now!!!!!
TOUCHING THE ART is a Finalist for a Pacific Northwest Book Award!!!!!
TOUCHING THE ART is a Finalist for a Washington State Book Award!!!!!
Read reviews in The Believer, in Full Stop, in Kirkus Reviews,
from the Jewish Book Council, and in the Brooklyn Rail!!
Read interviews in the Seattle Times, in Hippocampus, in the
Poetry Project Newsletter, in Lilith Magazine,
in Foglifter, and in Shondaland!!
Listen to interviews on Between the Covers with David Naimon,
On the Record with Sheilah Kast!!
Read an excerpt in Literary Hub!!
One of “30 Books We Can't Wait to Read this Fall” in the
Los Angeles Times!!
Order TOUCHING THE ART from Elliott Bay Book Company, from McNally Jackson, from The Ivy Bookshop, from Politics & Prose, or from your local independent bookstore!!
MATTILDA'S MOST RECENT ANTHOLOGY,
BETWEEN CERTAIN DEATH AND A POSSIBLE FUTURE:
Queer Writing on Growing Up with the AIDS Crisis is one of BookRiot’s
*****100 Most Influential Queer Books of All Time*****
“Thirty-six essays by writers who have never known a world without AIDS highlight a disparity in education and the impacts of the classism, misogyny and racism that surround it.”—New York Times Book Review
Order a signed copy from the unionized Elliott Bay Book Company, order a copy directly from the publisher at Arsenal Pulp Press, or order from your local independent bookstore!!
Read reviews in Chicago Review of Books, in Kirkus Reviews and in Shelf Awareness, and interviews in the Seattle Times,
the Rumpus and Xtra!
MATTILDA’S PREVIOUS TITLE, THE FREEZER DOOR, was a New York Times Editors’ Choice, a finalist for the
2021 PEN/Jean Stein Book Award, and one of the
Best LGBTQ Books of 2020 in Oprah Magazine!!
Read reviews in the New York Times Book Review,
in Washington Post Book World, in the Seattle Times,
in The Rumpus, and in The Baffler!!
Maggie Nelson says The Freezer Door is “a book about not belonging that made me feel deeply less alone,” Oprah Magazine calls it an “underline-every-sentence compendium of queer desire,”
the Washington Post says it’s an “aching, playful memoir of vivid desire amid midlife disconnection,” and the New York Times says it’s "hungry for a new form of intimacy.”
Read interviews in BOMB Magazine and The Believer, a profile in Crosscut, and answers to Ten Questions for Poets & Writers
Listen to interviews on Bookworm,
on the MIT Press Podcast, on Public Intellectual, and
on Thresholds for Lit Hub
Watch an interview on Los Angeles Review of Books: Writing Sex
Order a signed copy of The Freezer Door
from the unionized Elliott Bay Book Company!!
Watch Mattilda’s book tour events for The Freezer Door
at the Poetry Project (with Maggie Nelson),
for BOMB Magazine’s A Room with a View (with Jordy Rosenberg),
at McNally Jackson Books (with Alexander Chee),
at BookPeople (with Alyssa Harad)
at the San Francisco Public Library (with CAConrad)
at Harvard Book Store (with Kaitlyn Greenidge)
Order The Freezer Door from one of Mattilda's event partners at
McNally Jackson Books, at Skylight Books, at Women & Children First, at BookPeople, at Harvard Book Store, at Auntie’s Bookstore, at Third Place Books, or from your local independent bookstore
The Freezer Door was the Rumpus Book Club selection!
Read the chat here
Read excerpts from The Freezer Door in Boston Review,
in Meetinghouse, and in Evergreen Review
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