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...

"Mattilda is a dazzling writer of uncommon truths, a challenging writer who refuses to conform to conventionality. Her agitation is an inspiration."--Justin Torres, author of We the AnimalsThe End of San Francisco breaks apa...

"You may have thought you understood human nature before you read this book; after reading it you will be humbled by all you failed to grasp until now."--Edmund White"These essays come like a plunge into a forest pool o...

A meditation on the trauma and possibility of searching for connection in a world that enforces bland norms of gender, sexual, and social conformity. When you turn the music off, and suddenly you feel an unbearable sadness, that mean...