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Matt Briggs

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December 01, 1970 in Seattle, The United States

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About this author

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


Average rating: 3.96 · 68 ratings · 11 reviews · 8 distinct works
Shoot the Buffalo
4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 33 ratings — published 2005
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The Remains of River Names
3.6 of 5 stars 3.60 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 1999
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The End is the Beginning
5.0 of 5 stars 5.00 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2008
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The Strong Man
3.71 of 5 stars 3.71 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2010
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Misplaced Alice
3.57 of 5 stars 3.57 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2003
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The Moss Gatherers
4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2005
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The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Hobbit
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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
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PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories 2011 by Laura Furman
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Lucking Out by James Wolcott
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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
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The Chronology of Water
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Cultures and Organizations by Geert Hofstede
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14206 ZERO SUMMER KNITTING CIRCLE — 47 members — last activity Feb 27, 2009 12:23pm
A forum for fans of Andrew Demcak's book, Zero Summer.
107 The Pacific Northwest Contingent — 121 members — last activity Jun 20, 2011 06:17pm
PNW book lovers unite!
14934 Word Riot Press — 166 members — last activity Jan 05, 2010 11:28am
For fans of online literary magazine Word Riot and its small press extension Word Riot Press
14655 Opium's Literary Death Match — 55 members — last activity Feb 17, 2009 09:24am
Opium’s Literary Death Match is a competitive, humor-centric reading series that features four readers (who represent print and online literary concer...more
43214 Q&A with Naseem Rakha — 35 members — last activity Feb 16, 2011 10:11am
Naseem Rakha, award-winning author of The Crying Tree will be answering questions Feb. 7-Feb. 13.
56412 Necessary Fiction — 52 members — last activity Apr 24, 2012 10:43pm
A complementary group to the webjournal Necessary Fiction, to share books by our contributors and from our reviews section.
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Leon Shure Thanks for adding me as a friend,

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Daniel Cobb Matt, you're busy! Thanks for the friendship!


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Kevin Nice work, Matt. Extremely nice work. Good to see you here.


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