Matthue Roth
Matthue Roth’s chapbook Somehow I Have Built a Nest was published last summer by Ghost City Press. His stories appear in Ploughshares, the Kenyon Review, and Tin House, and were shortlisted for The Best American Short Stories. He lives in Brooklyn with his four daughters. By day, he’s a writer at Google, and he keeps a secret diary here.
Reading List
A Primer on Violence in Crown Heights
Friday afternoons in winter, the sun sets early. By five o’clock, the sky is purpling and the cold of night has begun to set. At six o’clock, it’s so completely dark that it may as well be midnight. In the Hasidic section of Crown Heights, Brooklyn, the world shuts down. When the sun sets, in […]