celebrating the the release of two new novels

Castle Faggot - by Derek McCormack - Afterword by Dennis Cooper and Zac Farley

A dark satire about an amusement park more deranged than anything Disney could imagine: a playland for gay men called Faggotland.

and

The Freezer Door - by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore

A meditation on the trauma and possibility of searching for connection in a world that enforces bland norms of gender, sexual, and social conformity.

Derek McCormack is a writer who lives in Toronto. His previous books include The Show that Smells, Haunted Hillbilly, and The Well-Dressed Wound (Semiotext(e)). (www.derekmccormack.com)

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 in 2014, and her previous book, 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 novel Sketchtasy was one of NPR's Best Books of 2018. She lives in Seattle. (mattildabernsteinsycamore.com)