Podcasts about Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore

American activist and author

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Best podcasts about Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore

Latest podcast episodes about Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore

On The Record on WYPR
'Touching the Art' author explores her grandmother's love and denial

On The Record on WYPR

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 1, 2024 25:21


Growing up, Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore adored her grandmother Gladys Goldstein; not for her acclaim as an abstract artist, but because she nurtured young Sycamore's creativity. But that changed when Sycamore came out as gender queer. In her latest work, "Touching the Art," Sycamore writes a mixture of biography, criticism, and social history in her sprawling memoir.  This episode originally aired on November 9, 2023. (Photo: Provided by MBS)Do you have a question or comment about a show or a story idea to pitch? Contact On the Record at: Senior Supervising Producer, Maureen Harvie she/her/hers mharvie@wypr.org 410-235-1903 Senior Producer, Melissa Gerr she/her/hers mgerr@wypr.org 410-235-1157 Producer Sam Bermas-Dawes he/him/his sbdawes@wypr.org 410-235-1472

On The Record on WYPR
'Touching the Art' author explores her grandmother's love and denial

On The Record on WYPR

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 9, 2023 26:21


Growing up Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore adored her grandmother Gladys Goldstein -- not for her acclaim as an abstract artist, but because she nurtured young Mattilda's creativity. That all changed when Mattilda came out as gender queer. She explains in her memoir: "Touching the Art." Links: Ivy Bookshop talk 11.13.23.Do you have a question or comment about a show or a story idea to pitch? Contact On the Record at: Senior Supervising Producer, Maureen Harvie she/her/hers mharvie@wypr.org 410-235-1903 Senior Producer, Melissa Gerr she/her/hers mgerr@wypr.org 410-235-1157 Producer Sam Bermas-Dawes he/him/his sbdawes@wypr.org 410-235-1472

Between The Covers : Conversations with Writers in Fiction, Nonfiction & Poetry

Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore returns to Between the Covers to talk about her remarkable new book, Touching the Art. A mixture of memoir, biography, criticism and social history, Touching the Art is above all a complicated love letter to Mattilda's grandmother, abstract artist Gladys Goldstein. Through an exploration of Mattilda's love for Gladys' art, Touching the Art becomes […] The post Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore : Touching the Art appeared first on Tin House.

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New Books in Gender Studies
The Gentrification of Queer Desire

New Books in Gender Studies

Play Episode Listen Later May 27, 2023 58:09


Writer Huw Lemmey (Chubz, Red Tory, Unknown Language) speaks with Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore about her most recent book The Freezer Door and searching for connection in a world that enforces bland norms of gender, sexuality, and friendship. Produced by Sam Kelly; Mixed by Samantha Doyle; Soundtrack by Kristen GallerneauxSoundtrack by Kristen Gallerneaux Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/gender-studies

New Books in Sex, Sexuality, and Sex Work
The Gentrification of Queer Desire

New Books in Sex, Sexuality, and Sex Work

Play Episode Listen Later May 27, 2023 58:09


Writer Huw Lemmey (Chubz, Red Tory, Unknown Language) speaks with Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore about her most recent book The Freezer Door and searching for connection in a world that enforces bland norms of gender, sexuality, and friendship. Produced by Sam Kelly; Mixed by Samantha Doyle; Soundtrack by Kristen GallerneauxSoundtrack by Kristen Gallerneaux Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

New Books in LGBTQ+ Studies
The Gentrification of Queer Desire

New Books in LGBTQ+ Studies

Play Episode Listen Later May 27, 2023 58:09


Writer Huw Lemmey (Chubz, Red Tory, Unknown Language) speaks with Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore about her most recent book The Freezer Door and searching for connection in a world that enforces bland norms of gender, sexuality, and friendship. Produced by Sam Kelly; Mixed by Samantha Doyle; Soundtrack by Kristen GallerneauxSoundtrack by Kristen Gallerneaux Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/lgbtq-studies

New Books Network
The Gentrification of Queer Desire

New Books Network

Play Episode Listen Later May 27, 2023 58:09


Writer Huw Lemmey (Chubz, Red Tory, Unknown Language) speaks with Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore about her most recent book The Freezer Door and searching for connection in a world that enforces bland norms of gender, sexuality, and friendship. Produced by Sam Kelly; Mixed by Samantha Doyle; Soundtrack by Kristen GallerneauxSoundtrack by Kristen Gallerneaux Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

Thresholds
Endnotes: Crystal Hana Kim, Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore, and summer reading

Thresholds

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 10, 2022 27:43


It's the end of a 'Family' capsule of episodes and the last before our summer break, so we really pulled out all the stops this time. FEATURED: an outtake of Crystal Hana Kim talking about her next novel a voicemail from Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore about how she does August Threshold alum highlights (like a bunch of them) summer reading recommendations from Jordan & Drew See you in September, with fresh pencils and notebooks and interviews! For more Thresholds, visit us at www.thisisthresholds.com Be sure to rate/review/subscribe! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Between The Covers : Conversations with Writers in Fiction, Nonfiction & Poetry
Tin House Live : Writing On Your Own Terms with Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore

Between The Covers : Conversations with Writers in Fiction, Nonfiction & Poetry

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 19, 2021 42:07


Originally delivered at the 2021 Tin House Summer Writers Workshop, Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore's electrifying talk “Writing On Your Own Terms” explores what it means to write against the canonical imperative, to write against the world as it is, to instead write on your own terms, toward community, and specifically toward the community of people who […] The post Tin House Live : Writing On Your Own Terms with Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore appeared first on Tin House.

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Interviews by Brainard Carey
Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore

Interviews by Brainard Carey

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 25, 2021 29:14


MATTILDA BERNSTEIN SYCAMORE is most recently the author of The Freezer Door, a New York Times Editors' Choice, one of Oprah Magazine's Best LGBTQ Books of 2020, and a finalist for the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award. Her previous nonfiction title, The End of San Francisco, won a Lambda Literary Award, and her novel Sketchtasy was one of NPR's Best Books of 2018. Sycamore is the author of two nonfiction titles and three novels, as well as the editor of five nonfiction anthologies. Her sixth anthology, Between Certain Death and a Possible Future: Queer Writing on Growing up with the AIDS Crisis, will be out in October. Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore signing at Elliott Bay, 11-19-20, by Karen Maeda-Allman

Thresholds
Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore

Thresholds

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 23, 2021 52:39


Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore is the author of three novels, two memoirs, and the editor of five nonfiction anthologies. Her novels include So Many Ways to Sleep Badly, Pulling Taffy, and Sketchtasy. Her first memoir, The End of San Francisco, won a Lambda Literary Award. Her recent memoir, The Freezer Door, has been longlisted for the 2021 PEN/Jean Stein Book Award. Her most recent 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. She recently completed a new anthology, Between Certain Death and a Possible Future: Queer Writing on Growing up with the AIDS Crisis, which will be published in October. Her activism has included ACT UP in the early '90s, Fed Up Queers in the late '90s, Gay Shame, and other unnamed groups. For more Thresholds, visit us at www.thisisthresholds.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

MIT Press Podcast
Huw Lemmey and Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore: The Gentrification of Queer Desire

MIT Press Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 15, 2021 58:09


Writer Huw Lemmey (Chubz, Red Tory, Unknown Language) speaks with  Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore about her most recent book The Freezer Door and searching for connection in a world that enforces bland norms of gender, sexuality, and friendship.   Produced by Sam Kelly Mixed by Samantha Doyle  Soundtrack by Kristen Gallerneaux

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Public Intellectual with Jessa Crispin
Our Age of Nostalgia, with Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore

Public Intellectual with Jessa Crispin

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 8, 2021 51:27


"The opposite of nostalgia is truth." So writes Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore in her new book The Freezer Door. We discuss how nostalgia fuels gentrification, why our streaming services are full of shows set in the 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s, and 90s, and how Patti Smith's "Just Kids" inspired suburbanites to flood into New York City.  Support this podcast: http://patreon.com/publicintellectual http://jessacrispin.com  

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Out in the Bay
The Freezer Door mourns 'the dream of queer'

Out in the Bay

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 27, 2021 29:30


Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore's new book, The Freezer Door , mourns losing "the dream of queer" -- a “world without borders and hierarchies”-- that she says consumerism, technology and gentrification are destroying. She reads passages from The Freezer Door and dissects topics therein on tonight's (10pm Tuesday) Out in the Bay . She laughs, too; introduces us briefly to the ice cube, the ice cube tray and other characters; even snipes at the literati: “It’s hard to imagine anything more damaging to literature than literature.”

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Out in the Bay
The Freezer Door mourns 'the dream of queer'

Out in the Bay

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 27, 2021 29:30


Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore's new book, The Freezer Door, mourns losing "the dream of queer" -- a “world without borders and hierarchies”-- that she says consumerism, technology and gentrification are destroying.

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Bookworm
Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore: “The Freezer Door”

Bookworm

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 17, 2020 28:28


Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore’s new book “The Freezer Door” explores the idea of radical visions not predicated on dominant forms.

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the Poetry Project Podcast
From The Freezer Door Except by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore

the Poetry Project Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 1, 2020 8:41


From The Freezer Door Except by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore by

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The Seattle Public Library - Author Readings and Library Events
Sarah Schulman discusses 'Conflict Is Not Abuse'

The Seattle Public Library - Author Readings and Library Events

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 29, 2020 79:10


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FENCE Magazine - Poetry Fiction Essay Other

This podcast contains nearly the entirety of the works in the print edition of FENCE Magazine 35, Winter/Spring Issue of 2019. Writers include Edgar Garcia, Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore, Tess Brown-Lavoie, Laura Sims, Eleni Sikelianos, Leah Dworkin, Rachel Levitsky, Christopher Patrick Miller, Blake Butler, Tamara Barnett-Herrin, Nora Toomey, Ji Yoon Lee, David Blair, David Alejandro Hernandez, Nawal Nader French, Jenessa VanZutphen, Robin Clarke, Brian Kim Stefans, Wendy C. Ortiz, Jesse Nathan, Abby Minor, Gary Lundy, Margaret Johnson, Amy Lawless, Emmett Gallagher, Matthew Moore, Steven Alvarez, Sam Truitt, Josh Kalscheur, Joanna Fuhrman, Tasia Trevino, James Tate, Nicole Burdick, Desirée Alvarez, Nat Suffrin, Alison Wellford, Liana Jahan Imam, Bonnie Chau, Steffan Triplett, Dan Chu, Serena Solin, Erica Hunt, Timothy Otte, Geoffrey Cruickshank-Hagenbuckle, and BC Griffith. Music provided by the permission of Matmos. This audiobook/podcast has been gathered and assembled by Jason Zuzga. He is one of the print journal's two Other/Nonfiction Editors along with Sarah Falkner.In continuous publication since 1998, FENCE is a biannual print journal of poetry, fiction, art, and criticism that redefines the terms of accessibility by publishing challenging writing distinguished by idiosyncrasy and intelligence rather than by allegiance with camps, schools, or cliques. FENCE also publishes a range of books and additional digital content, such as Fence Streaming Posts, Afrosonics/Mythscience, Elecment and The Constant Critic. FENCE is committed to publishing from the outside and the inside of established communities of writing, seeking always to interrogate, collaborate with, and bedevil all the systems that bring new writing to light. FENCE is edited by Rebecca Wolff. For FENCE's COMPLETE MISSION STATEMENT and FULL LIST OF EDITORIAL STAFF: click and scroll down.Support the show (https://www.fenceportal.org/subscribe/)

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Public Intellectual with Jessa Crispin
Queering the Military (with Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore)

Public Intellectual with Jessa Crispin

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 25, 2019 46:47


Jessa invites author Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore (The End Of San Francisco) onto Public Intellectual to discuss the transgender military ban & the role of marginalized people in challenging dominant institutions of oppression, specifically the American Military & marriage. Does being accepted into these institutions count as social progress? Is it furthering the cause of equality? Or is it strengthening the institutions that have always and will continue to oppress marginalized people?

Current Affairs
UNLOCKED: Pride Month Special (feat. Yasmin Nair, Conner Habib, and Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore)

Current Affairs

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 9, 2019 67:32


Current Affairs business manager Eli Massey and contributing editor Aisling McCrea are joined by three radical queer writers for a raucous, thought-provoking discussion on Pride, rainbow capitalism, the meaning of queer culture, the politics of desire, and so much else. You can find and support Yasmin Nair at yasminnair.net, Conner Habib at patreon.com/connerhabib, and Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore at mattildabernsteinsycamore.com. This episode was edited by Dan Thorn of Pink Noise Studios in Somerville, MA. To receive early access to episodes like these, as well as lots of other delicious exclusive content, consider becoming a Patron at patreon.com/CurrentAffairs.

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Current Affairs
PREVIEW - Pride Month Special

Current Affairs

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 1, 2019 2:12


Current Affairs business manager Eli Massey and contributing editor Aisling McCrea are joined by three radical queer writers - Yasmin Nair, Conner Habib, and Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore - for a raucous, thought-provoking discussion on Pride, rainbow capitalism, the meaning of queer culture, the politics of desire, and so much else. To hear this episode in full, and gain access to our exclusive 'Bird Feed', consider becoming a monthly patron at https://www.patreon.com/CurrentAffairs.

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Interviews by Brainard Carey
Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore

Interviews by Brainard Carey

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 26, 2019 23:13


Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore is the author of a memoir and three novels, and the editor of five nonfiction anthologies. Her new novel, Sketchtasy, was named one of the Best Books of 2018 by NPR Books. Her memoir, The End of San Francisco, won a Lambda Literary Award, and her previous title, 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 next book, The Freezer Door, will be published in fall 2020. Watch out, world… This is her second interview, the first one can be heard here.

Between The Covers : Conversations with Writers in Fiction, Nonfiction & Poetry

“Sycamore paints an unsparing and unsentimental portrait of survival in a homophobic era, and her writing is beyond beautiful. Sketchtasy is a powerful firecracker of a novel; it’s not just one of the best books of the year, it’s an instant classic of queer literature.”—Michael Schaub, NPR Books The post Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore : Sketchtasy appeared first on Tin House.

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Skylight Books Author Reading Series
Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore, "SKETCHTASY"

Skylight Books Author Reading Series

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 22, 2019 48:32


Sketchtasy 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. This is Boston in 1995, a city defined by a rabid fear of difference. Alexa, an incisive twenty-one-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 spectre of AIDS. Is there any hope for communal care? Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore brings 1990s gay culture startlingly back to life, as Alexa and her friends grapple with the impact of growing up at a time when desire and death are intertwined. With an intoxicating voice and unruly cadence, this is a shattering, incandescent novel that conjures the pain and pageantry of struggling to imagine a future.

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Against Everyone with Conner Habib
AEWCH 57: MATTILDA BERNSTEIN SYCAMORE or THE STATE OF QUEER 2019

Against Everyone with Conner Habib

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 21, 2019 81:24


I speak with author, editor, and queer legend Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore about all things queer in the past and future. We discuss the failures of gay marriage and truvada, the trans military ban, masculinity, and why old ways of belonging need to die. Hold onto your flowery, bedazzled hats.

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Otherppl with Brad Listi
Episode 560 — Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore

Otherppl with Brad Listi

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 16, 2019 93:12


Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore is the guest. Her new novel SKETCHTASY is available from Arsenal Pulp Press. Described as "startlingly bold and provocative" by Howard Zinn, "a cross between Tinkerbell and a honky Malcolm X with a queer agenda” by the Austin Chronicle, and “a gender-fucking tower of pure pulsing purple fabulous” by The Stranger, Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore is the author of a memoir and three novels, and the editor of five nonfiction anthologies. Sycamore's memoir, The End of San Francisco(City Lights 2013), won a Lambda Literary Award, and her most recent anthology, Why Are Faggots So Afraid of Faggots?: Flaming Challenges to Masculinity, Objectification, and the Desire to Conform (AK Press 2012), was an American Library Association Stonewall Honor Book and a finalist for a Lambda Literary Award. Mattilda's novels include So Many Ways to Sleep Badly (City Lights 2008) and Pulling Taffy (Suspect Thoughts 2003). She is the editor of four additional nonfiction anthologies, Nobody Passes: Rejecting the Rules of Gender and Conformity (Seal 2007), That’s Revolting! Queer Strategies for Resisting Assimilation (Soft Skull 2004; 2008), Dangerous Families: Queer Writing on Surviving (Haworth 2004), and Tricks and Treats: Sex Workers Write about Their Clients (Haworth 2000), which now also appears in Italian (Effepi Libri 2007). Mattilda has written for a variety of publications, including the San Francisco Chronicle, BOMB, Bookforum, The Baffler, the New York Times, New Inquiry, Los Angeles Review of Books, Truthout, Time Out New York, Utne Reader, AlterNet, Bitch, Bookslut, and The Stranger, and for ten years, Mattilda was the reviews editor and a columnist for the feminist magazine Make/shift. Mattilda made a short 16mm film, All That Sheltering Emptiness, in collaboration with Joey Carducci. The film premiered in 2010, and has screened around the world. Mattilda created Lostmissing, a public art project about the friend who will always be there, and what happens when you lose that relationship. Mattilda’s activism has included ACT UP in the early ‘90s, Fed Up Queers in the late ‘90s, Gay Shame, and numerous lesser-known (or even unnamed) groups. Mattilda's papers are archived at the San Francisco Public Library, and are accessible to the public. Mattilda lives in Seattle, Washington, but will be on tour for Sketchtasy from fall 2018 through spring 2019. In the past, she has appeared in independent bookstores, community centers, performance venues and universities across the US (and Canada), from Yale to Evergreen, UCLA to Harvard to Mills to McGill. Mattilda loves feedback, so contact her, okay? Mattilda is now on Twitter. Don't tell anyone, but she kind of loves it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Enoch Pratt Free Library Podcast
An Evening with Porochista Khakpour and Mattilda B. Sycamore

Enoch Pratt Free Library Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 16, 2018 71:00


Porochista Khakpour's debut novel Sons and Other Flammable Objects was a New York Times Editor's Choice, one of the Chicago Tribune's Fall's Best, and the 2007 California Book Award winner in the 'First Fiction' category. Her second novel The Last Illusion was a 2014 "Best Book of the Year" according to NPR, Kirkus, Buzzfeed, Popmatters, Electric Literature, and many more. Among her many fellowships is a National Endowment for the Arts award. Her nonfiction has appeared in many sections of The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Elle, Slate, Salon, and Bookforum, among many others. Sick is Khakpour's grueling, emotional journey - as a woman, an Iranian-American, a writer, and a lifelong sufferer of undiagnosed health problems - in which she examines her subsequent struggles with mental illness and her addiction to doctor prescribed benzodiazepines, that both aided and eroded her ever-deteriorating physical health. A story of survival, pain, and transformation, Sick candidly examines the colossal impact of illness on one woman's life by not just highlighting the failures of a broken medical system but by also boldly challenging our concept of illness narratives.Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore is the author of a memoir and three novels, and the editor of five nonfiction anthologies. Her memoir, The End of San Francisco, won a Lambda Literary Award, and her most recent 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. Mattilda's new novel, Sketchtasy, is out in October. Sketchtasy brings 1990s gay culture startlingly back to life, as Alexa, an incisive twenty-one-year-old queen, and her friends grapple with the impact of growing up at a time when desire and death are intertwined. With an intoxicating voice and unruly cadence, this is a shattering, incandescent novel that conjures the pain and pageantry of struggling to imagine a future. Writers LIVE programs are supported in part by a bequest from The Miss Howard Hubbard Adult Programming Fund. Recorded On: Wednesday, November 7, 2018

Enoch Pratt Free Library Podcast
An Evening with Porochista Khakpour and Mattilda B. Sycamore

Enoch Pratt Free Library Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 15, 2018 71:00


Porochista Khakpour's debut novel Sons and Other Flammable Objects was a New York Times Editor's Choice, one of the Chicago Tribune's Fall's Best, and the 2007 California Book Award winner in the 'First Fiction' category. Her second novel The Last Illusion was a 2014 "Best Book of the Year" according to NPR, Kirkus, Buzzfeed, Popmatters, Electric Literature, and many more. Among her many fellowships is a National Endowment for the Arts award. Her nonfiction has appeared in many sections of The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Elle, Slate, Salon, and Bookforum, among many others. Sick is Khakpour's grueling, emotional journey - as a woman, an Iranian-American, a writer, and a lifelong sufferer of undiagnosed health problems - in which she examines her subsequent struggles with mental illness and her addiction to doctor prescribed benzodiazepines, that both aided and eroded her ever-deteriorating physical health. A story of survival, pain, and transformation, Sick candidly examines the colossal impact of illness on one woman's life by not just highlighting the failures of a broken medical system but by also boldly challenging our concept of illness narratives.Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore is the author of a memoir and three novels, and the editor of five nonfiction anthologies. Her memoir, The End of San Francisco, won a Lambda Literary Award, and her most recent 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. Mattilda's new novel, Sketchtasy, is out in October. Sketchtasy brings 1990s gay culture startlingly back to life, as Alexa, an incisive twenty-one-year-old queen, and her friends grapple with the impact of growing up at a time when desire and death are intertwined. With an intoxicating voice and unruly cadence, this is a shattering, incandescent novel that conjures the pain and pageantry of struggling to imagine a future. Writers LIVE programs are supported in part by a bequest from The Miss Howard Hubbard Adult Programming Fund.

Public Intellectual with Jessa Crispin
"Queering the Military" (w/ Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore)

Public Intellectual with Jessa Crispin

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 31, 2017 46:46


Jessa invites author Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore (The End Of San Francisco) onto Public Intellectual to discuss the transgender military ban & the role of marginalized people in challenging dominant institutions of oppression, specifically the American Military & marriage. Does being accepted into these institutions count as social progress? Is it furthering the cause of equality? Or is it strengthening the institutions that have always and will continue to oppress marginalized people? If you're a fan of Public Intellectual and want more, please SUBSCRIBE // RATE // REVIEW on #ApplePodcasts. We want to hear what you think! New Episodes of Public Intellectual every Thursday!

Book Club for Masochists: a Readers’ Advisory Podcast
Episode 003 - Technology (non-fiction)

Book Club for Masochists: a Readers’ Advisory Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 19, 2016 45:47


 Your Hosts This Episode Anna Ferri | Amanda Wanner | Matthew Murray We discuss online reading vs book reading (“I just want to read the wiki article”), whether pop science is formulaic, if we read non-fiction to learn explicit facts or provoke thought generally, the impact of blog writing/reading on technology books, our audiobook preferences, anti-narratives (handbooks), edutainment, “There is some fiction in my non-fiction!,” lying by omission, hate reads, and more… Technology (Non-Fiction) We Read (or kinda): Recommended What is Code? by Paul Ford, long-form article from Bloomberg Magazine  The Making of Crash Bandicoot by Andy Gavin (The series of blog posts Matthew read; for the deep nerds out there)  The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains by Nicholas Carr  Extra Lives: Why Video Games Matter by Tom Bissell  Kitten Clone: Inside Alcatel-Lucen by Douglas Coupland (for a unique experience of technology reading)  The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage: The (Mostly) True Story of the First Computer by Sydney Padua  Other books read Dataclysm: Who We Are (When We Think No One's Looking) by Christian Rudder  The State of Play: Creators and Critics on Video Game Culture edited by Daniel Goldberg and Linus Larsson  Free: The Future of a Radical Price by Chris Anderson  The Naked Future: What Happens in a World That Anticipates Your Every Move? by Patrick Tucker  A few more “books” we mentioned(or that Meghan wanted us to mention since she couldn’t be there) The Urban Biking Handbook: The DIY Guide to Building, Rebuilding, Tinkering with, and Repairing Your Bicycle for City Living by Charles Haine  Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson  The Victorian Internet by Tom Standage  Paper Knowledge: Toward a Media History of Documents by Lisa Gitelman  How It Began: A Time-Traveler’s Guide to the Universe by Chris Impey (example of odd “padding” in non-fiction, but the science stuff is coooool)  BiblioTech: Why Libraries Matter More Than Ever in the Age of Google by John Palfrey  What Technology Wants by Kevin Kelly  Other/Links 7 Things You Should Read About Technology’s Role in Our Future Hatoful Boyfriend - The pigeon dating game Why so few violent video games? by Gregory Avery-Weir (short, funny, recommended)  The World Future Society - produces The Futurist magazine for which Patrick Tucker is an editor… That's Revolting!: Queer Strategies for Resisting Assimilation edited by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore (an example of a book where the author really invites you to debate and disagree with the arguments in their work)  Check out our Pinterest board of all the Technology (non-fiction) books people in our club read (or tried to read).

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Otherppl with Brad Listi
Episode 237 — Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore

Otherppl with Brad Listi

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 25, 2013 71:51


Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore is the guest. Her new memoir, The End of San Francisco, is now available from City Lights Books. Kirkus calls it "A blisteringly honest portrait of a young, fast and greatly misunderstood life. . . . An outspoken, gender-ambiguous author and activist reflects on her halcyon days as a wild child in San Francisco." And The San Francisco Chronicle says "It would be easy to describe The End of San Francisco as a Joycean 'Portrait of the Artist as a Young Queer' (although the book's intense stream of consciousness is reminiscent of the later, more experimental, Joyce) . . . but this is misleading. This journey of a life that begins in the professional upper-middle class (both parents are therapists) and the Ivy League and moves to hustling, drugs, activism -- Sycamore was active in ACT UP and Queer Nation -- and queer bohemian grunge, is profoundly American. At heart, Sycamore is writing about the need to escape control through flight or obliteration." Monologue topics: my awkwardness, the over-analysis of my awkwardness, preemptive crucifixion, Pontius Pilate-ing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Isnt It Queer
2013-10-09

Isnt It Queer

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 11, 2013 60:00


Continued coverage of LGBTQ History Month at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale. This week, we interview two memoir authors: SIU Theatre alum Dennis Milam Bensie (most recent book: "One Gay American") and queer activist Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore (most recent book: "The End of San Francisco").

Isnt It Queer
2013-10-09

Isnt It Queer

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 11, 2013 60:00


Continued coverage of LGBTQ History Month at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale. This week, we interview two memoir authors: SIU Theatre alum Dennis Milam Bensie (most recent book: "One Gay American") and queer activist Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore (most recent book: "The End of San Francisco").

The Wild Wild Left
Wild Wild Left Radio #78 GLBT Mindbend - An Interview with Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore

The Wild Wild Left

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 27, 2010 90:00


Come join in on our interview with Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore. Check out her blog "NOBODY PASSES, darling"! Mattilda was recently interviewed on NPR and Pacifica where she talked about the malevolence of the mainstream gay marriage/military/ordination-to-the-priesthood movement, resisting the violence of assimilation, gender fascism, gay hyperconsumerism, sex work, myopic liberals, defiant ways of loving, the failure of the "gay liberation movement", US imperialism, creating oppositional culture, challenging all hierarchies (including anarchist hierarchies), incest, and more! This will be one fascinating, insightful, transgressive and fabulously provocative show you don't want to miss.