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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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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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Published on May 08, 2012 07:45 • 3 views
Average rating: 3.52 · 397 ratings · 97 reviews · 7 distinct works
Never Mind The Goldbergs
3.45 of 5 stars 3.45 avg rating — 112 ratings — published 2005 — 5 editions
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Losers
3.51 of 5 stars 3.51 avg rating — 74 ratings — published 2008 — 2 editions
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Yom Kippur a Go-Go: A Memoir
3.82 of 5 stars 3.82 avg rating — 38 ratings — published 2005 — 2 editions
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Candy in Action
3.29 of 5 stars 3.29 avg rating — 24 ratings — published 2007 — 3 editions
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Losers by Matthue Roth
" 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... "
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Losers by Matthue Roth
" 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... "
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Never Mind The Goldbergs by Matthue Roth
" 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... "
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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.
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Bumble-Ardy by Maurice Sendak
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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
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“Even catholics have hail marys. Jews only have guilt.”
Matthue Roth, Never Mind The Goldbergs

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Matthue thank you and amen!


Bradley Greetings citizen, may all your books find there way to eager hands. =)


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