Matthew-words

Matthew Salesses is the author of I’m Not Saying, I’m Just Saying, a novella, The Last Repatriate, two chapbooks, Our Island of Epidemics and We Will Take What We Can Get, and two forthcoming ebooks, Different Racisms and All-American Bear Terrorizes Canada. He has written for The New York Times, NPR, The Rumpus, Glimmer Train, American Short Fiction, and elsewhere. He is currently the Fiction Editor and a Contributing Writer at The Good Men Project.

You’re on a deserted island but luckily you found your three most favorite books, what are they?

The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje, Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson and The Alexandria Quartet by Lawerence Durrell.

What phrase/quote would you (or do you!) have tattooed on your body?

“I am afraid of needles”

What contemporary writer excites you the most?

Maile Meloy

What does independent literature mean to you?

Freedom

What color is the sky?

Depends on the weather