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Pulling Taffy cover image and design by Shane Luitjens/Torquere Creative fiction/gay studies/sexuality
Pulling Taffy inhabits the boundaries between fiction, autobiography, and truth. It's about choosing to remain dangerous and unrepentant, struggling to survive this ravaging world without losing a sense of integrity and charm. Moving from mid-nineties Boston, to post-grunge Seattle, to Giuliani's New York, Pulling Taffy is about searching for home and not necessarily finding it.
Mattilda, a.k.a. Matt Bernstein Sycamore, is the editor of Tricks and Treats: Sex Workers Write About Their Clients (Haworth 2000) and Dangerous Families: Queer Writing on Surviving (Haworth 2003). Pulling Taffy is his first novel. His writing has been widely published, in places as diverse as Best American Erotica, Best American Gay Fiction, Women and Performance, and Slingshot. He is an instigator of Gay Shame: the Virus in the System, the radical queer activist group that celebrates resistance by fighting the monster of assimilation. He lives in San Francisco, where he is at work on a new anthology, Resisting Assimilation: Alternatives to the Gay Mainstream, and a second novel.
read a short interview with Matt Bernstein Sycamore here
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A high-resolution Pulling Taffy cover is available here. Publisher: Greg Wharton |
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