Coming Soon
It Makes No Sense Not To Sit Next To Someone Warm Tonight
by Matthew Curlewis
Released in Fall 2026
A Geography of Love, Loss, and Laughter.
Mapping the contours of grief and the delights of living, It Makes No Sense Not To Sit Next to Someone Warm Tonight gathers together Matthew Curlewis’s many years of writing. Criss-crossing cultures and decades - from Sydney to Tokyo, and New York to Amsterdam - Matthew creates a collage as varied and vivid as the times he documents. Whether late-night rollerblading in '90s Manhattan, performing as ‘Earl Grey’ in Roppongi, or sharing frozen margaritas on the shady back deck of the ‘Ludlow Lounge’- his Lower East Side party palace, he relishes remembering, finds joy in small moments, and tells those gone too soon, ‘I think of you still’.
“In this collection of essays, poems and prose pursuits to catch lightning in bottles, Matthew Curlewis gives readers insights into living and laughing on the trashy, sexy, sequinned side of the street. To do so, he uncorks his curiosity about everything, everywhere and everyone, thereby manifesting the idea that time itself is fluid and malleable, especially in the written word. A meditation on sincerity, a celebration of vivacity, a read to make you smile and smile - this is the voice of a perceptive, lucid, life-enhancing writer with (hotpants full of) talent to spare. ”
ISBN Hardcover: coming soon
Editors: Anna Trapmore and Kate Doyle
Cover design: Jet Purdie
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Matthew Curlewis grew up on a farm in Australia with a pet wombat called Greg. These days he lives on a canal in Amsterdam with a Dutch husband called Mart.
Matthew loves to create connections between human beings, in a variety of ways - in person, through writing, and by leading writing workshops.
