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Review: Bad Luck City, by Matt Phillips

Review: Bad Luck City, by Matt Phillips:

Review of my crime novella, BAD LUCK CITY…

Readers call it a “fantastic crime thriller.”Get it...

Readers call it a “fantastic crime thriller.”

Get it here: http://amzn.to/2bteDbp

Thoman’s Word by Matt Phillips

Thoman’s Word by Matt Phillips:

Stoked to have a crime fiction story up over at Shotgun Honey!

OUT NOW from All Due Respect Books… Three Kinds of...

OUT NOW from All Due Respect Books… Three Kinds of Fool

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Fiend’s Last Job, fiction by Matt Phillips | Fried Chicken and Coffee

Fiend’s Last Job, fiction by Matt Phillips | Fried Chicken and Coffee:

Got a little old crime story published over at Fried Chicken and Coffee, an awesome site for crime fiction, Southern Gothic fiction, and essays to boot.

Coming August 15 from ALL DUE RESPECT BOOKS.For ex-con and pool...

Coming August 15 from ALL DUE RESPECT BOOKS.

For ex-con and pool cleaning man Jess Forsyth, life is a California rhythm of surf, work, tacos, and drink. He’s gone straight, and he’s happy with that…Sort of. When he runs into an old pal, Jess finds himself taking money (and pride) from a well-heeled drug dealer. But things get twisted. On the journey that follows, Jess discovers you can’t escape what you are, especially when there’s cash for the taking. There are three kinds of fool in this life—the lost, the guilty, and the dead. But who the heck is who?

"I never wanted to be well-rounded. I do not admire well-rounded people nor their work. So far as I..."

“I never wanted to be well-rounded. I do not admire well-rounded people nor their work. So far as I can see, nothing good in the world has ever been done by well-rounded people. The good work is done by people with jagged, broken edges, because those edges cut things and leave an imprint, a design.”

- Harry Crews

Book Review: Bad Luck City by Matt Phillips

Book Review: Bad Luck City by Matt Phillips:

Crime writer Tom Leins reviews my novella, BAD LUCK CITY…

"What I hate about this notion of regionalism in literature is that there’s no such thing as regional..."

“What I hate about this notion of regionalism in literature is that there’s no such thing as regional literature. There might be literature with a pronounced regional flavor, but it’s either literature on aesthetic grounds or it’s not literature. In the view of those on the Eastern Seaboard, everything that is not amorphous, anything that has any peculiarities of geography, is considered regional fiction, whereas if it’s from New York, it’s evidently supposed to be mainstream. I told my agent that it struck me that the Upper East Side of New York was constitutionally the most provincial place I’d ever been.”

- Jim Harrison
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Updates on the infamous Thirteeners...

Updates on the infamous Thirteeners...:

“Matt Phillips continues to take the crime world by storm - hate to say I told you so - with Bad Luck City, from Near to the Knuckle’s new crime novellas imprint.”