Touching The ArtA daringly observant memoir about intergenerational trauma, fine art, and compartmentalization from a returning Soft Skull author and Lambda Literary Award winnerA mixture of memoir, biography, criticism, and social history, Touching the Art is queer icon and activist Mattilda Bernstein Sycamores interrogation of the possibilities of artistic striving, the limits of the middle class mindset, the legacy of familial abandonment, and what art can and

suspenseful thriller the daughter of a con artist is taken hostage in a bank heist—and will need to tap into all her skills in order to survive

2022) and Freedom House (Deep Vellum Publishing

She impulsively takes a job as a fry cook at Pennywhistle’s beloved Chickie Shak

Paulo Sutch

the endless city nights and Fire Island days are close to burning out

In the last three decades of the twentieth century

This book was published with two different covers

nerve and talent

Stripping away all artifice

A fresh take on a cherished culture of hookups and random sex

a masculine girl growing up in the "Ozzie-and-Harriet" McCarthyite era and coming out as a young butch lesbian into the pre-Stonewall gay drag bars of a blue-collar town

Tara just wants to be treated like any other girl at Ainsley Academy