Matthew Keating

Writer, reader @parisreview, sometimes pianist //
words in @apublicspace

[Matthew Keating @mkeatingwrites]

I have a story coming out soon with @APublicSpace — this interview, online ahead of the issue, with the wonderful @louishomeara, speaks a little about it & its influences https://t.co/g5mw1YOlcW

[Matthew Keating @mkeatingwrites]

hope I never lose the naive joy I take in flying

[Matthew Keating @mkeatingwrites]

Started reading My Phantoms and the writing is excellent—the measure of it is how I can feel my blood pressure rising reading about the narrator’s father

[thebe kgositsile @earlxsweat]

real men wake up and immediately engage in debilitating life practices

[Matthew Keating @mkeatingwrites]

@ryanhasbadtaste btw, imo, 3(R) has the best story & vibes/design, but 5 is close and the gameplay is probably a little better

[Matthew Keating @mkeatingwrites]

@ryanhasbadtaste people will tell you it’s peak…and they’re right. enjoy!

[Matthew Keating @mkeatingwrites]

@qnorapname_ this made me finally dig into the special herbs tapes, great stuff 🫡

[The New Yorker @NewYorker]

In a new short story by Ben Lerner, a writer starts seeing a therapist—and they agree that she won’t read his work. “If you had an intense reaction to my writing of whatever sort, I’d worry it might influence how you related to me, but if you were more or less indifferent to it, I would feel devalued, misunderstood, rejected,” Lerner writes. When the narrator faces a medical emergency, and then writes about it, he starts pushing against the bounds of that agreement. Read the story: https://t.co/3ko9eO8zYe

[Matthew Keating @mkeatingwrites]

i've kept chickens/ducks as pets & am used to farm animals being dismissed as essentially objects; and of course it is this way—if culture did consider them creatures worth protecting, the normalcy of their systematized torment & slaughter would suddenly seem pretty unbearable

[Matthew Keating @mkeatingwrites]

Apropos of nothing, reminded that the production of foie gras is hideous, hideous cruelty. another reminder that way the human race treat animals on a regular basis is so nauseating...deeply evil stuff.

[Matthew Keating @mkeatingwrites]

@exhaustdata haven’t read the Doloriad but I am really looking forward to it, and will probably read everything she writes!!

[Matthew Keating @mkeatingwrites]

@exhaustdata and I am disappointed but ultimately not shocked by the “well you see it lambasts hollow autofiction and yet it is nothing more” takes that I’ve been seeing. I remember feeling that was a call I could NOT confidently make, which is one thing that made it feel so rich to me

[Matthew Keating @mkeatingwrites]

@tao_lin they’re gorgeous. the veins glimmer in almost like they’re embedded with stones—blew me away the first time I saw one!

[matty matt @noetic_emetic]

how it feels to stop spatializing time and intuit pure duration

[Matthew Keating @mkeatingwrites]

@caltrops_press will do !

[Matthew Keating @mkeatingwrites]

@rapmusicplugpod @defcee My own fault for not digging back into Defcee’s catalogue too! loved Other Blues last year. spun this one twice tonight, may love it even more—gotta check out the new EP as well

[The Paris Review @parisreview]

Our Summer issue is here—featuring interviews with Harryette Mullen and Yan Lianke, prose by Lucy Ellmann, Chigozie Obioma, and Daisy Hildyard, poetry by Frederick Seidel and Hannah Piette, art by Hadi Falapishi and Andrew Kuo, a cover by Alex Da Corte, and more. Follow the link in our bio to subscribe and read issue no. 256. https://t.co/FfLIM1vNCg

[Matthew Keating @mkeatingwrites]

@rapmusicplugpod @serengetidave @steeltippeddove is this KD series of albums a full concept / storyline, ie. worth engaging from the beginning (as a newcomer to Serengeti generally!) to get the full picture?