Author Archives: Robert Nagle

Jack Matthews on the memoir of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Son

Posted on August 29, 2010 by Robert Nagle

Jack Matthews has a new essay appearing in August 15 Chronicle Review: It is no surprise to literary scholars that Henry David Thoreau was soaked in Emerson’s thinking, but Julian tells us that even the younger man’s handwriting was like … Continue reading →

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Visiting Jack Matthews (Photo Essay)

Posted on August 29, 2010 by Robert Nagle

Last week I had the opportunity to visit Jack Matthews in Athens, Ohio. Thrilling! Details of the visit will appear occasionally on this blog. For now here are some photos which I took during my visit. This is Jack Matthews … Continue reading →

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Jack Matthews: On choosing the right name for a story character

Posted on August 29, 2010 by Robert Nagle

(Here is a brief excerpt from  WORKER’s WRITEBOOK, an unpublished notebook  about the art of writing fiction  which Jack Matthews prepared for  his  Ohio U. creative writing students in the 1990s). An ebook version of this work will be available … Continue reading →

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2009 Interview with Jack Matthews

Posted on August 27, 2010 by Robert Nagle

This interview was conducted via email in Summer, 2009 just after Jack Matthews’ 84th birthday. Throughout the process, Matthews had a lot of fun with it: answers were sometimes full of deliberate misspellings and archaic contractions. After I assembled his … Continue reading →

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Jack Matthews: An Author which the Internet Forgot

Posted on August 26, 2010 by Robert Nagle

My introduction to short story writer Jack Matthews could not be more accidental. Between 2007 and 2008, I had been downloading and listening to a series of author interviews conducted by Don Swaim during the 1970s and 80s. Don Swaim … Continue reading →

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Jack Matthews: The Art (and Sport) of Book Collecting

Posted on August 19, 2010 by Robert Nagle

Ohio author Jack Matthew’s thoughts about book collecting & Robert Nagle’s questions about its relevance to ebooks Continue reading →

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