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Harley Quinn and the Joker: Sound Mind, Gone in the Night, Phreaks, Sandra, The Silent History, Super Flat Times
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I am a writer based in Rhode Island. Most recently, I...
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The Guardian. "Has the energy of an airport page-turner,...
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Matthew Derby has 14 books on Goodreads with 4890 ratings. Matthew Derby’s most popular book is The Silent History.
May 9, 2003 · Matthew Derby. Author Interviews / By Matt Borondy / May 9, 2003 / 8 minutes of reading. Matthew Derby has an MFA in writing from Brown University. His stories have appeared in Conjunctions, Fence, 5 Trope, Pindeldyboz, and Failbetter, and he is Associate Fiction Editor at 3rd Bed.
I am a writer based in Rhode Island. Most recently, I co-wrote the Spotify Original podcast Harley Quinn and The Joker: Sound Mind with longtime collaborator Eli Horowitz. Our previous collaboration, the feature film Gone in the Night, was released in 2022.
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The Silent History
The first major serialized, exploratory novel written and designed for iPad and iPhone, now available in print form from FSG. "A compelling story about difference, rights and power." The Guardian "Has the energy of an airport page-turner, with the coherence and ambition of a more earnest book." The Economist "Here is a novel at once fun, clever and humane with the scope to outlast its hipper-than-thou origins." The Independent "An ingenious variety of perspectives and locations that create a...
Super Flat Times: Stories
"Beneath the busily mutating surface weirdness, the stories are rife with abandonment and loss." Village Voice
The Snipe
She walked up to the driver’s side door and stood with her hands at her sides. The young man did not move. She saw, in his eyes, a tightness that might have been a well-concealed panic. “I know what you have in there,” she said.
The Anchor Book of New American Short Stories, edited by Ben Marcus The Apocalypse Reader, edited by Justin Taylor Dzanc Books Best of the Web 2009
In Guernica He opened the box and looked at the rocket launcher. It looked like nothing, like a big black tube with a trigger and a stock. He picked up one of the rockets and hefted it in his palm. It was freezing cold in his hand. He breathed on it, which only made it wet.
In The Collagist The floor was covered with a jagged spread of magazines, Fangoria and Starlogand Madand Black Beltand Rolling Stone, their covers half-torn, dog-eared, folded backwards, drawn on and cut up. Disemboweled action figures dangled from strings where the boys had hung and flogged them with mini souvenir baseball bats. A burned, melted Millennium Falcon sat precariously on the edge of a half-empty fish tank, which was furry with dark green algae.
In Conjunctions I went upstairs and ate a Starburst on the bed.
The Believeronline exclusive Maybe I feel this way, though, only because my life has largely been about not doing things, and then finding ways to make the things I don’t do ridiculous or undesirable in order to destroy their seductive power.
The Believeronline exclusive This cannot possibly sound like a compliment, which it is, but the chaotic, fervent night had all the trappings of a public burning, wherein the Arcade Fire were the fierce, indignant victims, railing out against the injustice of their sentence as the crowd tossed whatever would burn into the conflagration.
The BelieverIssue 1 I can’t tell which of the two is scarier—Paul Banks with his I’m-not-really-here-right-now stare or Carlos Dengler, dressed like an extra from The Hunger.
Matthew Derby is a writer and designer interested in the place where those two disciplines meet. He co-wrote the serialized fiction podcast Sandra for Gimlet Media with Kevin Moffett.
Dec 8, 2014 · Following his celebrated debut collection, Super Flat Times, Matthew Derby delivers a disturbing new set of stories that plunges us into a lonely heartland of misfits, outcasts, and would-be assassins who lurk in the shadows, searching for connection and meaning in all the wrong places.
