Books by Matt Briggs

Translator: Fiorenzo Iuliano Publication date: October 2016 Press: a dest dell’ equatore Format: Paperback Language: Italian ISBN: 9788895797250 Buy Synopsis This a translation of The Remains of River Names by Fiorenzo Iuliano. Defined by the author as a “novel in tales”, The Remains of River Names, is at the same time the choral story of an average American family living in its gradual dissolution, and a heterogeneous collection of different voices, perspectives, and scenarios, each characterizing each of the stories. To hold together the protagonists of these stories is the rural and urban scenery of the state of Washington and the city of Seattle during the 1980s. ...

Publication date: March 2013 Press: Publication Studio Format: Paperback Language: English ISBN: 9781624620140 Buy Synopsis In the shadow of the Boeing plant where the first commercial jet liner was assembled, a family lives in a house in a rural landscape filled with stumps, streams chocked with the dead salmon, and no one who can help. The sixties in Renton, Washington were a mix of jet age technology and subsistence farming. Roger Carnation at an electrical engineer, or double e, is a stepfather who regards his new family as an acquisition. He has daughters to train to do what he needs. He has a wife to clean house and prepare food. He has a son to train as a replacement man. The novel is told through the five points of view as the story advances toward its inevitable end. ...

Publication date: August 2008 Press: Final State Press Format: Paperback Language: English ISBN: 0615203760 Buy Synopsis I had seen the movies. I had read the books. I had dreamed of this moment, often. The Plague of Fur began, as such things do, with a faint smudge of peach fuzz. The fur, once invented, contained the capacity to grow and spread. Like all life, it wanted to make more of itself. Reality is played out anyway. ...

Editor: Jo-Anne Birnie Danzker Publication date: January 2016 Press: Frye Art Museum Format: Hardcover Language: English Buy Synopsis This catalogue is published by the Frye Art Museum as an archive of the exhibition Genius / 21 Century / Seattle (September 26, 2015- January 10, 2016). An unprecedented, large-scale celebration of exceptional multidisciplinary and collaborative artistic practice in Seattle in the twenty-first century, the exhibition featured over sixty-five visual artists, filmmakers, writers, theater artists, composers, musicians, choreographers, dancers, and arts organizations. The catalog documents the installations, sculptural, and filmic works featured in the exhibition, and contains dynamic photographs of the more than forty events that took place over the course of the exhibition—including live music, dance, and theater performances; literary readings; video screenings; public forums; and rehearsals. Essays by Jo-Anne Birnie Danzker and Erika Dalya Massaquoi, co-curators of the exhibition, reveal the multitude of perspectives shaping artistic practice in Seattle and the global community, while authors Courtney Sheehan and Jennifer Zeyl provide an in-depth view into the city’s film and theater communities. The artists invited to participate in the exhibition are all recipients of Seattle alternative weekly newspaper The Stranger’s Genius Award, selected by leading arts writers and the local artistic community. This catalog collects each original article published by The Stranger on the occasion of the artist receiving the Genius Award. The catalog Genius / 21 Century / Seattle brings deeper insight to the themes explored by the exhibition and provides a lasting record of this experimental project. ...

Editor: Phoebe Boche Publication date: November 2016 Press: Raven Chronicles Press Format: Paperback Language: English Buy Synopsis The work that Jack Straw Cultural Center did and does with community groups like the Seattle World School; their work with arts and heritage organizations; their commitment to educational programs for youth and adults of all ages: this is why Raven was committed to publishing this special edition of the Raven Chronicles Journal. Vol. 23 is a departure of sorts: The theme is the twentieth year of the Jack Straw Writers Program, and we did not have an open submissions period for the first time in Raven’s history. Instead, Jack Straw curators and staff chose two writers from each year of the program: 1997-2016. ...

Misplaced Alice Publication date: March 2002 Press: StringTown Press Format: Paperback Language: English ISBN: 0971896704 Buy Synopsis Misplaced Alice is a collection of seventeen very short stories. Many of the stories are only three pages long. They have appeared in magazines such as The Cortland Review, Chrysanthmum_, Timber Creek,_ and ZYZZYVA. Blurbs I was highly invigorated by these stories. They’re such exquisitely crafted aperçus of the droll and the macabre. Very Hitchcockian. The focus of the stories becomes very acute; the severe compression causes grotesque acts to appear even more grotesque. ...

Editors: Connor Guy and Alex Davis-Lawrence Publication date: December 2015 Press: Moss Lit Press Format: Paperback Language: English ISBN: 978-0-996379-0-0 Buy Synopsis The first Moss Lit anthology, Moss: Volume One (Issues 1-3), offered writing from Rebecca Brown, Matt Briggs, Corinne Manning, Charles Finn, Janie Miller, Miriam Cook, Steven Moore, Jenn Blair, Eric Severn, Clayton McCann, Donald J. Mitchell, and Christine Texeira, interviews with Rebecca Brown, Peter Mountford, T.V. Reed, and Ryan Boudinot, and a republished piece of early Northwest fiction by Robert Cantwell. ...

Editors: by Peter Donahue and John Trombold Publication date: March 2004 Press: University of Washington Press Format: Paperback Language: English ISBN: 0295983957 Buy Synopsis Seattle, with its spectacular natural beauty and rough frontier history, has inspired writers from its earliest days. This anthology spans seven decades and includes fiction, memoirs, histories, and journalism that define the city or use it as a setting, imparting the flavor of the city through a literary prism. ...

Editors: Novella Carpenter, Paula Gilovich, and Rachel Kessler Publication date: November 2002 Press: 10th Avenue East Publishing Format: Paperback Language: English Long Review Pragmatic Literature, The Rendezvous Reader Announces the Current Northwest Trend: Poetic Nonfiction in The Stranger by Colin Booey, 11/28/02 When my father buys a book, he immediately writes in it: his name, the date, and the city where the book was purchased. The intimacy of this gesture is meant to inscribe his presence onto the blankness of the book, to claim it as his own. But if my father were to buy The Rendezvous Reader, he would hesitate before penning his name in it-hesitate or even possibly abandon the gesture, because the book would present to him not an impersonal text but one whose authors were intimately and forcefully tied to the book and its world: the Pacific Northwest. With this book, adding one’s name to the list of other names would be much like adding graffiti to a bathroom wall. ...

Editor: Ryan Boudinot Publication date: September 2015 Press: Sasquatch Books Format: Hardback Language: English ISBN: 1570619867 Buy Synopsis This bookish history of Seattle includes essays, history and personal stories from such literary luminaries as Frances McCue, Tom Robbins, Garth Stein, Rebecca Brown, Jonathan Evison, Tree Swenson, Jim Lynch, and Sonora Jha among many others. Timed with Seattle’s bid to become the second US city to receive the UNESCO designation as a City of Literature, this deeply textured anthology pays homage to the literary riches of Seattle. Strongly grounded in place, funny, moving, and illuminating, it lends itself both to a close reading and to casual browsing, as it tells the story of books, reading, writing, and publishing in one of the nation’s most literary cities.