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VIDEO: Jack Matthews on the storytelling craft
In 2012 Jack Matthews gave an audio interview about his writing guide, A Worker’s Writebook. This video gives excerpts from this interview and at the end, Matthews, reads from his chapter “Pointedness of the Tale.”
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Afterward to the 2019 Edition
I included this afterward to the revised edition of a Worker’s Writebook, which has now been pushed to the major stores. I’ll be posting audio from Jack Matthews about this book and others very soon! I take some credit for … Continue reading
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Hanger Stout, Awake! at 50 Years: A Rumination
In May 2018, to commemorate 51 years after initial publication, Personville Press will release a 2nd edition of Hanger Stout, Awake. The second edition will include this new preface which I wrote for it. When author Jack Matthews (1925-2013) talked … Continue reading
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Antaeus magazine’s “Neglected Books of the 20th Century”
Jack Matthews was proud to learn that his early novella Hanger Stout, Awake was listed by Antaeus magazine as one of the “Neglected Books of the 20th century.” Personally, I think some of his later novels are more remarkable — … Continue reading
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New (old) audio, New (old) photos by Jack Matthews
I first got acquainted with author Jack Matthews by stumbling upon an audio interview he did with Don Swaim in 1984. Swaim used to run a literary interview show on CBS radio; later Swaim released the extended interviews with these … Continue reading
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Story Collection: Abruptions: 3 Minute Stories to Awaken the Mind
Book Description During the last decade of his life, author Jack Matthews wrote a series of 1-2 page prose pieces (which he dubbed “Abruptions” or “very short stories that end abruptly”). Matthews had already published over 20 books of fiction … Continue reading
Jack Matthews vs. Robert Coover
Here’s a small letter to the editor by Jack Matthews which New York Times Book Review published in 1992: “To the Editor: Your hypotext on hypertext writ by Robert Coover is hyperbole in hypolex, though Coover’s sure a groover. What … Continue reading
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Letters to NYTBR “I am even a less a Gottliebian”
Here’s another random letter to the editor which Jack Matthews sent to the NYTBR in 1990. The essay he is responding to is long and actually quite good, despite Jack’s quibbles. Matthews has always had a deep interest in Continental … Continue reading
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Preface to “Soldier Boys” Short Story Ebook Collection (now published)
(Below is the preface for the Soldier Boys ebook. The book page contains purchase links and discount coupon codes. Further Readings on Civil War Fiction — an annotated bibliography which appears in the ebook’s appendix — is also online.) During … Continue reading
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New Story Collection: Soldier Boys: Tales of the Civil War
Book Description Over the decades, Jack Matthews collected memoirs and personal correspondence by actual U.S. Civil War soldiers. Eventually this interest led him to write a group of stories from the vantage point of teenage soldiers. The stories are less … Continue reading
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