Matthew Lansburgh
Matthew Lansburgh’s collection of linked stories, Outside Is the Ocean, won the 2017 Iowa Short Fiction Award and was a finalist for the 30th Annual Lambda Literary Award and the 2018 Ferro-Grumley Award for LGBTQ Fiction. The book's title story was named a Distinguished Story in The Best American Short Stories 2018, and the collection has received praise from Andre Dubus III (“mesmerizing”), Kirkus (“arresting and pointed”), Booklist (“captivating”), and Margot Livesey (“a brilliant collection”). Matthew's fiction appears or is forthcoming in One Story, Glimmer Train, Ecotone, Electric Literature, StoryQuarterly, Columbia, Guernica, the Florida Review, and Michigan Quarterly Review.
Reading List
Hanky-Panky
Last spring, a new Chipotle opened two blocks from my apartment. In a neighborhood full of vendors that sold costume jewelry and plastic beads, asparagus ferns and Gatorade by the case, it was a welcome addition. I was one of the first customers to have lunch there, and within days I’d come to recognize most […]