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Mattox writes stories, short and long. It's all fiction. And this is the place where the news and info of that writing is chronicled. This is mattoxroesch.com. Browse and read. Email a hello. Enjoy your time.

happenings.

05.06.08
Mattox's novel excerpt "All the Way Rider" is in Narrative Magazine's hardcopy edition of their Spring '08 issue, available here.

01.04.08
Two recent stories published. "Burn the House Down" and "The Thing in Her Thumb" appear in the latest issues of Indiana Review and Redivider. Single copies are available on their websites.

10.22.07
2007 Best American Nonrequired Reading showed up last week and Mattox's story "Humpies" is in there. The anthology looks great. Check it out at your local bookshop or any online bookseller, including Powells.com. For visual reference:

**And read what Minus Spine had to say about the story "Humpies." They're awfully nice.**

old news.

8.20.07
"Burn the House Down" will appear in Indiana Review's upcoming issue. Mattox took a few risks with this piece and he's pleased to have it accepted by one of his favorite journals. Read an excerpt here.

7.2.07
Mattox's story "The Thing in Her Thumb" will appear in the fall issue of Redivider.

6.25.07
Check out The Missouri Review podcast with Mattox here or in the itunes store.

5.29.07
"Humpies" will be anthologized in the 2007 Best American Nonrequired Reading, edited by Dave Eggers, due to hit stores in early October. The story first appeared in AGNI online.

2.19.07
-Mattox is a finalist for a 2007 Bush Foundation Artists' Fellowship.

2.5.07
-Go-Boy's in print! He's in The Missouri Review. He says, "Jump, it's not as wide as you think." He also hands out twenty dollar bills in the story, so check it out.

1.3.07
- Happy 2007! Resolutions? Of course...considering we are all connected via the collective unconscious, it only makes sense that if one person can follow through with his/her resolutions then the collective tenacity will be strengthened. So here we go: 1. quit caffeine; 2. drive less; 3.shave less; 4. hear rhythm everywhere...everything's a drum fill--the picking up socks and shoveling sidewalk snow and hugging you with your eyes. It's never a bad time to use your ears.

6.19.06
-Check out the story "Humpies" on AGNI's website.

10.1.05
-Mattox will be reading at The Loft Literary Center in Minneapolis on Friday, October 7 at 7:30pm. Along with Mattox will be poet Nick Flynn, author of the memoir "Another Bullshit Night in Suck City," and non-fiction writer Brenna Rausch.