Arts & Literature Trivial Links
Written by Nathan Mattise
Project idea: Take insignificant objects, have talented writers submit backstories for said items to be published on a blog, call the blog “Significant Objects,” sell items to prove a good story adds worth. I’m sold.
For truly insignificant items, scope this Time list of bad library books.
August is here. [...]
Arts & Literature Trivial Links
Compiled by Nathan Mattise
So my short story was finally published on Esquire.com this Monday, but the aftermath excitement doesn’t stop there. I got a shout-out from USA Today’s Pop Candy this morning for my work.
Backstory: I met the Whitney Matheson at a Pop-Candy meet-up during last year’s “Office” Convention in Scranton. [...]
Arts & Literature Column
Written by Nathan Mattise
For the few of you who have been long time readers (or at least thoroughly perused the archives), perhaps this will be somewhat expected. I was obsessed with the Esquire Napkin Fiction project after I first found it, to the point where I sent an unsolicited submission in. Next [...]
Sports & Leisure Fiction
Written by Nathan Mattise
“Nice book”
It took him twenty minutes to find The Flying Star, but once on the scene Noah was much quicker about springing into action.
Arts & Literature Op-Ed Column
Written by Nathan Mattise
I’m spending the summer in Albuquerque, N.M. with an eccentric aunt. I know less than six people in town between the ages of 17 and 30. There is likely a direct correlation between these two statements and my increased summer reading. But seeing this idea from Esquire didn’t [...]
