True true true -- now's the time to get it!

Yes, yes -- it's time to harrass your local bookstores and tell them NOW NOW NOW or else!

You can also order it directly from City Lights.

And I'll be on tour this fall -- I'll let you know once everything is booked, and as my events are finalized I'll also post them on -- you guessed it -- this MySpace page!

Oh -- you wanted more info, well here it is:

"Mattilda's brilliance makes stream-of-consciousness a lifestyle, a state-of-consciousness. This is an entire lived life's worth of heartshaking honesty, arch observation, searing vulnerabilty and craving and seeking, all in one breathtakingly poetic (and hilarious) book."   
—Michelle Tea, author of Valencia and Rose of No Man's Land

Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore's exhilarating new novel is about struggling to find hope in the ruins of everyday San Francisco—battling roaches, Bikram Yoga, chronically bad sex, NPR, internet cruising, tweakers, the cops, $100 bills, chronic pain, the gay vote, vegan restaurants, and incest, with the help of air-raid sirens, herbal medicine, late-night epiphanies, sea lions, and sleeping pills. So Many Ways to Sleep Badly unveils a gender-bending queer world where nothing flows smoothly, except for those sudden moments when everything becomes lighter or brighter or easier to imagine.

"So Many Ways to Sleep Badly is a perfectly tidy mess, a 'Sex in the Other City'—only these sexual escapades and flailing urges are truly transgressive and flamboyantly hilarious at every turn… This refreshingly frenetic and innovative second novel is unabashedly political, but without being formulaic or reductive. It is a book that has done nothing less than invent its own language."
—T Cooper, author of Lipshitz Six, or Two Angry Blondes and Some of the Parts

"Like the best writers that have come before — David Wojnarowicz, Lou Reed, William S. Burroughs — Sycamore has boiled life and times down to a resin that you could almost grind, cut up and snort. There is no one else on this planet that could write this book. Dare I say it's a classic? Yes, and I dare you to read it."

—Jake Shears of Scissor Sisters

"Reading a chapter of this amazing book is like when someone throws you into the deep end and you don't know how to swim. . . . You breathe in this new element—this frantic, fluid prose—and read like you have never read before."

—Rebecca Brown, author of The End of Youth and The Last Time I Saw You

"In 1955, City Lights published Allen Ginsberg's Howl, an attack on the conformity and the alienation of that era. Now here's another great paean to a counterculture of hustlers, junkies and visionary angels to wash the taste of the Bush years out of our mouths."

—Robert Glück, author of Jack the Modernist and Denny Smith