Episode 113: Matthew Salesses
Matthew Salesses is a writer based in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Matthew\u2019s new novel, Disappear Doppelg\xe4nger Disappear, is darkly funny, unsettling in the best way, and wholly original, the story of a Korean American man struggling simply to exist as he feels himself literally disappearing. In our conversation, Matthew and I discussed his book, the trap of the first-person perspective, and what it means to take responsibility. Then in the second segment, we talked about the meaning of love.
(Conversation recorded July 8, 2020.)
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Show Notes:- Matthew Salesses
- Matthew Salesses - Disappear Doppelg\xe4nger Disappear
- Thank You Books - Author Event: Laura Van Den Berg in conversation with Matthew Salesses (August 20, 2020)
- Prairie Lights - Reading: Matthew Salesses and Lyz Lenz (August 27, 2020)
- Belmont Books - Virtual Event: Margot Lives and Matthew Salesses (September 16, 2020)
- Review Disappear Doppelg\xe4nger Disappear: Amazon | Goodreads
- Julio Cort\xe1zar
- Matthew Salesses - Love and Silence (Catapult column)
- Matthew Salesses - \u201cWhat Does It Mean to Write Asian American Literature?\u201d
- David Eng & Shinhee Han - \u201cA Dialogue on Racial Melancholia\u201d
- Han Kang - The Vegetarian
- Margot Livesey - The House on Fortune Street
- Olga Tokarczuk - Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
- Byung-Chul Han - The Agony of Eros
- Kahlil Gibran - \u201cOn Marriage\u201d
- Jacques Lacan
- Lyz Lenz - Belabored: A Vindication of the Rights of Pregnant Women
- Elisa Gabbert - The Unreality of Memory
- Margot Livesey - The Boy in the Field
- Editing/Mixing: Mike Sakasegawa
- Music: Podington Bear
- Transcription: Shea Aguinaldo