It Makes No Sense Not To Sit Next To Someone Warm Tonight

Matthew Curlewis

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Matthew Curlewis has been writing it all down – from Provincetown to Istanbul, from Australia to Azerbaijan. Through late-night rollerblading in Manhattan, propping up a broken leg on multiple long-haul flights, protesting global strife in drag, performing interpretive dance poems as ‘Gayle Force’, and singing a cappella in a sharkfin-fitted wetsuit at world expositions – he keeps his pen moving. Still, as he visits old friends and makes new ones, time takes its toll. A dance-school friend develops an incurable illness, a former lover dies of AIDS, and a beloved roommate is lost too soon on a snowy New York night – even as our narrator remembers him making exquisite, comedic pratfalls in five-inch heels across the Waldorf Astoria’s lobby.  It Makes No Sense Not To Sit Next To Someone Warm Tonight compiles essays, fiction, poetry, comedy bits, monologues, diary entries, song lyrics and more, as our eclectic author traverses continents, cultures and decades. Set against contemporary disquiets and divisions, in stories ranging from hilarious to heartbreaking, this ‘zest for life’ memoir illuminates our finest and most sparkling connective threads: our origins in stardust.