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Matthue Roth

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http://www.goodreads.com/matthue

born

June 30, 1978 in Philadelphia, The United States

gender

male

website

http://www.matthue.com

genre

Children's Books, Biographies & Memoirs, Comics & Graphic Novels

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Sherman Alexie, Francesca Lia Block, Jeanette Winterson, Paul Auster,...more

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December 2007

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Matthue Roth is a slam poet and the author, most recently, of Losers, as well as the novels Candy in Action and Never Mind the Goldbergs, and the memoir Yom Kippur a Go-Go. He's also a performance poet, and, with Mat Tonti, publishes the short graphic novel (that's a comic book, y'all) Kabbalah Komix. He lives in Brooklyn with his family, and he keeps a secret diary at www.matthue.com.

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Matthue Roth's Blog

Trying to be really rosie.

maurice sendak is dead. i think this might be the thing that finally keeps me off facebook today. person after person mourning. when did it become a thing to post that someone's dead? i guess it's one more thing to identify ourselves with. one more way to build our personality out of other people's bones.

and here i am, doing the same thing.

i'm not sad -- i mean, he lived a full life, and he kne... read more »

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Average rating: 3.52 · 397 ratings · 97 reviews · 7 distinct works

	Never Mind The Goldbergs 3.45 avg rating — 112 ratings — published 2005 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Losers 3.51 avg rating — 74 ratings — published 2008 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Yom Kippur a Go-Go: A Memoir 3.82 avg rating — 38 ratings — published 2005 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Candy in Action 3.29 avg rating — 24 ratings — published 2007 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Push Anthology by David Levithan (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Patricia McCormick, Matthue Roth (Goodreads Author) 3.52 avg rating — 123 ratings — published 2007 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Truth & Dare: 20 Tales of Heartbreak and Happiness by Liz Miles (Goodreads Author) (editor), Jennifer Finney Boylan (Goodreads Author), Sarah Rees Brennan (Goodreads Author) 3.43 avg rating — 30 ratings — published 2011 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Cornered: 15 Stories of Bullying and Defiance by Rhoda Belleza (Editor), Kirsten Miller (Goodreads Author), Mayra Lazara Dole (Goodreads Author) 4.20 avg rating — 5 ratings — expected publication 2012	My rating:

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Matthue is now friends with Sean Whelan
May 28, 2012 03:16am
Matthue liked Jennifer Wardrip's review of Losers: " Reviewed by Breanna F. for TeensReadToo.com Jupiter Glazer has had a tough life ever since he got dragged from Russia to the United States when he was young. He's always been the kid who gets picked on and shoved into lockers. He only really has on... " Read more of this review »
May 15, 2012 12:53pm · see review
Matthue liked Karen Workun's review of Losers: " The protagonist of "Losers", Jupiter, comes to America from Russia to attend school and is, naturally, an outcast at first. Being a product of his culture, he has a different take on situations and ideas than most people he comes to attend school... " Read more of this review »
May 15, 2012 12:51pm · see review
Matthue liked Kelley's review of Never Mind The Goldbergs: " Dredging the archives of my old YA blog--from back in the day when I was a YA para-librarian. Awesome! She’s punk rock, she’s an Orthodox Jew, and she’s the star of the newest TV sitcom: Never Mind the Goldbergs! Meet Hava. A sassy Manhattanite wh... " Read more of this review »
May 15, 2012 12:46pm · see review
Matthue marked as to-read: The Steampunk Coloring and Activity Book: Containing Illustrations, Recipes, Formulas & Other Activities to Entertain & Entice Creativity for the Prevention of Ennui & General Malaise Among the Youth of Today & Their Progenitors by Phoebe Longhi	My rating:
May 02, 2012 11:00am
Matthue gave to: West of Here by Jonathan Evison (Goodreads Author)	My rating:
Apr 30, 2012 07:15am
Matthue marked as to-read: The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving by Jonathan Evison (Goodreads Author)	My rating:
Apr 30, 2012 07:14am
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Apr 30, 2012 07:13am
Matthue gave to: HHhH by Laurent Binet	My rating:
A crazy, wonderful book. Half history, half personal memoir....it's flawed and personal in a way that only adds to its crazy completist view. Like David Foster Wallace, but French.
Mar 22, 2012 12:19pm · see review
Matthue gave to: Bumble-Ardy by Maurice Sendak	My rating:
Stephen Colbert said, "This book is for everyone, unless you're Jewish." I like it a lot more than my kids do -- the story, though simple, is a little too WTF-y for them, with a lot of asides that don't go anywhere and a 6-page wordless Wild Rumpus t...more
Mar 01, 2012 09:31am · see review

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“Even catholics have hail marys. Jews only have guilt.”
― Matthue Roth, Never Mind The Goldbergs

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