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Matthew Sharpe

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New York City, NY, The United States

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Matthew Sharpe (born 1962) is a U.S. novelist and short story writer. Born in New York City, but grew up in a small town in Connecticut. Sharpe graduated from Oberlin College in Ohio. Afterwards, he worked at US Magazine until he went back to school at Columbia University, where he pursued an MFA. Since then, he has been teaching creative writing at various institutions including Columbia University, Bard College, the New College of Florida, and Wesleyan University. Sharpe says he started writing fiction at age ten but was finally inspired and encouraged to be a writer after reading Sam Shepard's play La Turista when he was 21.

Matthew Sharpe is the author of the novels Nothing Is Terrible (Villard, 2000), The Sleeping Father (Soft Skull, 20...more

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Books by Matthew Sharpe

Average rating: 3.18 · 651 ratings · 173 reviews · 9 distinct works

	Jamestown 3.12 avg rating — 251 ratings — published 2007 — 3 editions	My rating:
	The Sleeping Father 3.33 avg rating — 219 ratings — published 2003 — 5 editions	My rating:
	You Were Wrong 2.93 avg rating — 122 ratings — published 2010 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Nothing is Terrible 3.31 avg rating — 45 ratings — published 2000 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Stories from the Tube 3.75 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 1998	My rating:
	Zizek and Politics: A Critical Introduction by Matthew Sharpe, Geoff M. Boucher 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2010	My rating:
	Understanding Psychoanalysis by Matthew Sharpe, Joanne Faulkner 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2008 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Trauma, History, Philosophy 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2007	My rating:
	Digitalfotografie Menschen 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	My rating:
	The Antipodean Philosopher, Volume 1: Public Lectures on Philosophy in Australia and New Zealand by Graham Oppy (Editor), N.N. Trakakis (Editor), Lynda Burns (Editor) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2011	My rating:

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“A friend who won't respond to what a friend can't ask is like a looking glass in which you cannot see yourself.”
― Matthew Sharpe, Jamestown

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“I don't want to think anymore. Thinking prevents you from living.”
― Matthew Sharpe, Nothing is Terrible

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“You know what love is because you've studied it, not because you've felt it. You never will. You know what love is? It's this insidious thing that infects your eyes and ears, spreads to every inch of skin, the follicles of hair on the skin, the lips, the tongue, a hundred million microscopic organisms crawling on you. They commandeer the hollow of your thorax and your guts, your arms, your legs, your head, and other extremities. You cease to be yourself. You are now a vessel of impressions and thoughts of the person you love, of wishes for her, of dreams of her. You're jealous of the air she breathes because she takes it inside her all day and needs it to live; it becomes her, as you want to. You cast your thoughts of her and you an hour, a day, a week, a year, a hundred years into the future. No thought has the power to push itself as far into the future as the thought of love—not even thoughts of fame, or wealth, or death.”
― Matthew Sharpe, Jamestown

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