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Matthew Neill Null

About

Matthew Neill Null is a a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and a recipient of the O. Henry Award, the Mary McCarthy Prize, and the Joseph Brodsky Rome Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He is author of the novel Honey from the Lion (Lookout Books) and the story collection Allegheny Front (Sarabande). Originally from West Virgnia, Null and his family currently reside in Rome, Italy.

Articles

Something You Can't Live Without

By Matthew Neill Null

EARTHQUAKE COUNTRY

An installment in our weekly story series, The By and By.  Why are some places cursed and others blessed? The blessed never ask this question. They don’t have to. This has been the concern of my...

By Matthew Neill Null
The By and By

Gli Animali

By Matthew Neill Null

IN THE TONNARA

An installment in our weekly story series, The By and By.  For all we romanticize the notion of “work” in America, and as much as the politicians shill for it, the daily life of a laborer is the...

By Matthew Neill Null

On Churchgoing, Style, And Being Deranged

By Matthew Neill Null

OUR QUEEN OF HEAVEN

An installment in our weekly story series, The By and By.  From the Janiculum, you can see the dull red cells that look like arcades, the two squat watchtowers, and the closest buildings laid...

By Matthew Neill Null

THE LOST COSMONAUT

Contemporary fiction writers can play hard for the joke, as if writing to a laugh-track, but Joy Williams’s humor is darker, subtler, more in line with the humor of Faulkner or Isaac Babel: bracing,...

By Matthew Neill Null
Web Feature

Up To And Including The Pectoral Fins

By Matthew Neill Null