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Matt Briggs

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born

December 01, 1970 in Seattle, The United States

gender

male

website

http://finalstatepress.com/mattbriggs

genre

Literature & Fiction, Short Stories, Biographies & Memoirs

influences

Russell Edson, Jim Heynen, Janet Frame, Jorge Luis Borges, Georges Per...more

member since

July 2008

About this author

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Matt Briggs grew up in the Snoqualmie Valley, raised by working-class, counter-culture parents who cultivated and sold cannabis. Briggs has written two books set in rural Washington chronicling this life, The Remains of River Names and Shoot the Buffalo. Critic Ann Powers wrote of Briggs first book in the New York Times Book Review, "Briggs has captured the America that neither progressives nor family-value advocates want to think about, where bohemianism has degenerated into dangerous dropping out." Briggs has published a number of collection of stories, including The Moss Gatherers and The End is the Beginning. Of his stories, Jim Feast wrote in the American Book Review, "All of Briggs’s zigzagging stories are told with great attention to...more

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Books by Matt Briggs

Average rating: 3.96 · 68 ratings · 11 reviews · 8 distinct works

	Shoot the Buffalo 4.00 avg rating — 33 ratings — published 2005	My rating:
	The Remains of River Names 3.60 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 1999	My rating:
	The End is the Beginning 5.00 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2008	My rating:
	The Strong Man 3.71 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2010	My rating:
	Misplaced Alice 3.57 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2003	My rating:
	The Moss Gatherers 4.00 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2005	My rating:
	Television, Audiences and Everyday Life 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2009	My rating:
	Television, Audiences & Everyday Life 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2010	My rating:

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Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind

by Shunryu Suzuki

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Portisville

by Steve Cushman

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Mar 11, 2012 09:49pm

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Nothing: A Portrait of Insomnia

by Blake Butler

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Matt Briggs is now friends with Bridget Mckinney
May 27, 2012 09:51am
Matt Briggs gave to: The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien read in March, 2012	My rating:
My bus ride is about thirty minutes or an hour round trip and I've been reading -- and this week I reread The Hobbit and was completely surprised to enjoy the book as much as I did. I last read the book maybe thirty years ago and didn't really have a...more
Mar 17, 2012 01:41pm · see review
Matt Briggs is currently reading: Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind by Shunryu Suzuki	My rating:
Mar 11, 2012 09:50pm
Matt Briggs is currently reading: Portisville by Steve Cushman	My rating:
Mar 11, 2012 09:49pm
Matt Briggs is currently reading: Nothing: A Portrait of Insomnia by Blake Butler	My rating:
Mar 11, 2012 09:49pm
Matt Briggs is currently reading: Much Ado About Nothing (Folger Shakespeare Library) by William Shakespeare	My rating:
Mar 11, 2012 09:48pm
Matt Briggs is currently reading: PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories 2011: The Best Stories of the Year by Laura Furman	My rating:
Mar 11, 2012 09:48pm
Matt Briggs gave to: Lucking Out: My Life Getting Down and Semi-Dirty in the Seventies by James Wolcott read in March, 2012	My rating:
I'm enjoying this book. At times James Wolcott is pretensions as he oversells or seems to oversell particular moments in his life in New York in the 70s and 80s. Walcott's story is largely about his friendships with and worshipful submission to write...more
Mar 11, 2012 09:47pm · see review
Matt Briggs gave to: The Chronology of Water by Lidia Yuknavitch (Goodreads Author) read in March, 2012	My rating:
Mar 11, 2012 09:46pm
Matt Briggs gave to: Cultures and Organizations: Software of the Mind - Intercultural Cooperation and Its Importance for Survival by Geert Hofstede read in January, 2012	My rating:
Mar 03, 2012 10:21am