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Matthew Kirby

Born and bred in a briar patch

About Me

My name's Matt, and I'm a writer. What's up?

My Interests

Writing, History, Philosophy, Archaeology, Language, Maps, Traveling, Comics/Narrative Art, Cooking

I'd like to meet:

People who like to read... preferably my stuff, but whatever. Also those willing to spread the word about Spider Stories and The 366.

Music:

Radiohead, Wilco, My Morning Jacket, Rainer Maria, early U2, Dylan, Bowie and a whole bunch of other stuff

Movies:

Donnie Darko, The Royal Tenenbaums, The Life Aquatic, Bottle Rocket, Lost in Translation, Black Orpheus, and lots more.

Television:

Lost, Scrubs, Heroes

Books:

Basically anything by Neil Gaiman, Salman Rushdie, and Michael Ondaatje (especially In the Skin of a Lion); G. K. Chesterton's The Man Who was Thursday; some Kerouac; Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart; Watership Down; Haruki Murakami

Heroes:

Superman

My Blog

Welcome to THE 366

There are 366 days in 2008.Twelve Months, Twelve NovellasA New Chapter Each DayWelcome to the ProjectIn an effort to improve my writing, I've launched www.the366.com, a blog-like site at which I'll be...
Posted by Matthew Kirby on Wed, 13 Feb 2008 05:14:00 PST

SPIDER STORIES available now at Amazon.com

As the title suggests, my first novel, Spider Stories, is now available at Amazon.com, so be supportive and go buy it.  I'll wait here.Spider Stories is the story of Anansi, an African god brough...
Posted by Matthew Kirby on Wed, 13 Feb 2008 05:11:00 PST